A source close to Morteza Semyari told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that after the Revolutionary Courts announced Semyari’s bail...
Member of Ahmadinejad Entourage in New York is Suspect in Attack on a Young Woman
27 Feb 2010 A New York court has pressed charges against a man accompanying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his September 2009 trip to United Nation’s...
Prime Minister of Spain Urges Respect for Human Rights in Iran
In a response to a request by the Campaign for solidarity in demanding human rights in Iran to the Prime Minister of Spain, the Director of the...
Pro-Government Cleric Hamid Rohani: In Order to Solve the Problem, Kill the Dissidents as in 1988
In a shocking statement, a cleric named Seyed Hamid Rohani told the radical pro-government newspaper, Vatan-e Emrooz, that dissidents should be...
Iran’s ‘Excruciating’ Human Rights Record – Council on Foreign Relations
23 Feb 2010 Interviewee:Rudi Bakhtiar, Director of Communications, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Interviewer:Bernard Gwertzman,...
Ambiguity in Kahrizak case–no judges have been suspended
Feb 21, 2010 Alireza Avaee has stated that so far the judge related to Kahrizak case has not been suspended. In an interview with ISNA News Agency,...
Torture of Karroubi’s son: the role of plainclothes men in abuse and mistreatment of detainees
Following the February 11th arrest of Ali Karroubi, 37, the objecting presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi’s son, and his subsequent torture inside...
George Polk Award for Videography Awarded to “people responsible for recording the death of 26-year old Neda Agha-Soltan”
This morning I found a slew of articles reporting on the announcement of the George Polk Awards -- with emphasis on one of the awards in...
Student Activist: People concerned about blatant regime brutality
Only 24 hours before the February 11, 2010 celebration of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, a student activist and member of Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat...
Widespread arrests of activists on the threshold of the 1979 revolution anniversary
Mass arrests of social, women’s rights, and political activists during the ten days leading to Islamic Revolution’s Anniversary has continued with...