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What the President Should Now Do About Iran
By Roya Boroumand (07 Nov 2012) The American presidential campaign is over and Americans have elected a president who will have to face many...
Iranian Diaspora Worries About War, Sanctions and Human Rights
[This article first appeared in Al-Monitor. The original posting can be found here.] By Roxana Saberi (November 14, 2012) - As President Obama...
News Release: UN human Rights Experts Urge Immediate Release of Sakharov Prize Winners
GENEVA (1 November 2012) – A group of United Nations independent experts called for the immediate release from prison of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a...
A Persian letter to Arab revolutionaries
Abolfazl Ghadyani is an ageing revolutionary. He put his life on the line to make the Islamic Republic in Iran possible. He is now a political...
Student Group Urges Egyptian President to Address Human Rights Abuses in Iran
The following letter was submitted by the student group, Green Messengers of Hope in Iran, to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, urging him to...
Don’t Mistake Iran’s Brutality For Strength
By Payam Akhavanand Ramin Jahanbegloo It cannot be denied that hatred and violence are fundamental characteristics of political power in...
United for Iran Calls on Administration to Take Action in Wake of Earthquakes
In the wake of the dual earthquakes devastating Iran over the weekend, United for Iran, in conjunction with a number of organizations, submitted a...
OFCU Report Details Ongoing Human Rights Violations against Students
A second report published by the Office for Consolidating Unity, a leading independent Iranian student union, has detailed ongoing human rights...
Statement on Iranian Officials Denial of Political Prisoners
United States (12 July 2012) – The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has issued a statement calling on Iranian officials to “cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners.” Citing Javad Larijani’s recent remarks during an interview with the Iranian Student News Agency that “there are no political prisoners inside the Islamic Republic…