Jafar Panahi, an internationally celebrated film director who won the coveted “Golden Lion” prize at the Venice Film Festival for his 2000 film...
Video: Iranian women activists begin sit in for their jailed colleague in Iran
Despite extreme weather conditions, seven Iranian rights activists - including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi - staged a sit-in outside the United...
Weekly Rights Podcast 20
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nasrin Sotoudeh is charged with not wearing a hejad for not wearing a headscarf in a 2008 YouTube video and...
Political Prisoners’ Families Detained, Interrogated, and Verbally Abused
A few hours after Fatemeh Maleki, wife of imprisoned Iranian filmmaker and blogger Mohammad Nourizad, was transferred to Tehran’s Modarres Hospital,...
Update on Foreign Prisoners in Vakilabad Prison
Philippine embassy in contact with citizen, Nigerian and Ghanaian embassies were unaware that their citizens were executed On 17 November 2010, the...
Ebrahim Yazdi’s Deteriorating Health in Evin Prison
A reliable source recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran regarding the case of Ebrahim Yazdi. In the interview, the...
Unionist Reza Shahabi on Wet Hunger Strike
Reza Shahabi, an imprisoned board member of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed), ended his dry hunger...
Sotoudeh’s Husband Reacts to Javad Larijani’s New Charges Against Her
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the new charges raised against...
Mohammad Davari’s Mother: “I Wish The Prison Phones Were Working”
Zolaikha Biyabani, the mother of imprisoned teacher and journalist Mohammad Davari, has been unable to travel to Tehran to visit her son due to poor...
(Updated 02/16/12) The Case of Saeed Malekpour
In October, we posted about 35-year-old Saeed Malekpour, a permanent resident of Canada and web-developer who has been sentenced to death by the IRI. Since being detained in October 2008 for a case of “internet offenses,” he has endured forced confessions and torture, while being denied any and all legal recourse. (Read a cliff notes version of the case below, or click here to read the case in long form.) Since, nearly 1,000 people have sent e-letters urging officials to help save Saeed.