In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: executions at Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison clouded in secrecy, ten executions took place as recently as October...
“It is Safe for Sarah Shourd to Return to Iran,” says Lawyer
On Tuesday, Tehran’s Prosecutor addressed the upcoming trial of the three American hikers, one of whom was released last month, saying that if Sarah...
“People Shouldn’t Die for Their Beliefs” says Wife of Death Row Prisoner
Mahin Saremi, wife of death row prisoner Mohammad Ali Saremi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she is asking for help...
Prominent American Civil Rights Lawyer Calls for Release of Imprisoned Iranian Lawyers
A prominent civil rights lawyer in the United States has written a letter addressing human rights abuses carried out by the government against...
Veteran Political Prisoner Demands Trial of Supreme Leader
In a letter written from prison, political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi asked international courts to review his grievance against Iran’s Supreme...
AFP: Iran puts top human rights lawyer on trial
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has put on trial Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a founding member of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's rights group, on charges of spreading...
Weekly Rights Podcast 14
This is the “Weekly Rights Podcast” a review of major human rights issues by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran…. It’s October 16th...
Contradictory Statements By Intelligence Minister Regarding Detained Americans
Contrary to earlier statements by Massoud Shafiee, lawyer for the two American hikers who remain imprisoned, insisting that his clients’ case does...
“They Want to Kill My Son or Give Him Back Disabled” Says Father of Prisoner of Conscience
Mohammad Reza Rouhinejad, father of a prisoner of conscience who is serving a ten year prison term at Zanjan prison, told the International Campaign...
Sotoudeh’s Husband Says Wife is in Solitary Confinement
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his wife is...