February 11, 2010 Watch below as Diane Sawyer of ABC News interviews Mehdi Saharkhiz (@onlymehdi as most know him) regarding his role as conduit,...
Possibility of Saeed Nourmohammdi’s release from prison; no news about his brother after arrest
A source close to political prisoner Saeed Nourmohammadi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite immense physical and...
New prison sentences: Tajbakhsh five years, Safaei Farahani six years, and Nabavi five years
An appeals court has reduced Iranian American researcher Kian Tajbakhsh’s sentence to five years. Behzad Nabavi’s sentence has also been reduced to...
Azadi, Freedom, and 22 Bahman
In Tehran, taxi drivers call out destinations: Vanak, Vanak, Vanak. Tehran Pars, Tajrish, Arjentine, Resalat, Pol-e Hemat... If you are traveling to...
Kian Tajbakhsh’s 15 year sentence will be overturned
Replying to a question from International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the case of Kian Tajbakhs, a post elections prisoner whose case is...
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...
Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey(5): “The refugees are not journalists only”!
In the series of interviews conducted by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran with asylum seekers in countries neighboring Iran, this...
Moharebeh and Corruption on Earth charges for student activist Amin Valian
Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20-year-old member of the Central Council of Islamic Association of Damghan Science University, was convicted on charges of...
Arrest of Nooshin Jafari and search for Saeedeh Kordi Nejad
On Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at midnight, Nooshin Jafari, a journalist with Etemad Newspaper’s Culture Section was arrested. Security forces...
New arrests: Sahar Ghassem Nejad, Nazanin Hassan Nia, and Alireza Saghafi
3-Feb 2010 At 4 a.m. today, plainclothes officers stormed the homes of Sahar Ghassem Nejad and Nazanin Hassan Nia, who belong to families of those...