by Sadra | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
Rassoul Badaghi, an imprisoned teacher, has been on a dry hunger strike for the past two weeks in protest of his prison conditions at Rajaee Shahr Prison. As he is being kept in solitary confinement, he remains unaware of his mother’s death this past week and her...
by Sadra | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
By DOKHI FASSIHIAN June 4, 2011 U.N. appointment of special rapporteur a major step. On March 25, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to single out Iran as a nation deserving of a special rapporteur on human rights to monitor its suspected abuses. The...
by Sadra | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: Rudi Bakhtiar of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran testifies at the United States Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing; the mothers of imprisoned American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal speak out; the...
by Sadra | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, journalist Saeed Pourheydar, who was arrested twice after the 2009 election and eventually sentenced to five years in prison, described his prison abuse, charges, his detention conditions inside...
by Sadra | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says an Iranian trade union leader was freed on parole today after spending almost four years in prison. The ITF said in a statement that Mansur Osanloo’s release was “conditional on his...
