Two brothers, Mohammad Fathi, 28, and Abdollah Fathi, 27, were hanged Tuesday morning inside Isfahan’s Dastjerd Prison. On Monday, the family of...
Prisoner of Conscience Hashem Khastar Describes Illegal Treatment of Prisoners
In an open letter to the Head of the Judiciary and Minister of Intelligence, Seyed Hashem Khastar, retired teacher and prisoner of conscience who...
Student Activist Remains in Intelligence Office Two Months After Arrest
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mohammad Taravatrooy, lawyer for Shiraz University student Loghman Ghadiri...
Dervishes in Gonabadi Order Summoned and Sentenced to Lashes, Prison, and Exile
A lawyer close to the case of dervishes from Gonabad described the status of those arrested for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran....
In Rare Move, Man Sentenced To Blinding And Disfigurement In Retribution (Qisas)
“The Supreme Court issued a rare final ruling, sentencing the suspect in an acid throwing case to eye gauging and earlobe cutting,” the Iran...
Prisoners in Karaj Demand Visit by UN Special Rapporteur to Address Poor Prison Conditions
Following a hunger strike by political prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, Ali Tabarzadi, son of political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi...
Pressure and Torture of Political Prisoner Result in Lung Collapse and Epilepsy
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fatemeh Alvandi, mother of prisoner of conscience Mehdi Mahmoudian, said...
Deceased Political Prisoner’s Wife Will Not Pursue Cause of Death In Order to Avoid Threats
There has still been no official announcement made of political prisoner Hossein Domekhchi’s cause of death, twelve days after his body was...
Inmate’s Letter Exposes Inhumane Conditions and Secret Executions in Mashad Prison
No Steps Taken by Judiciary to Address Gross Violations of International Standards (8 April 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in...
So-Called NGOs that Support Torture and Child Executions
Campaign’s daily blog from Geneva, Switzerland — Of all the countries whose human rights conditions are currently on the agenda of the Human Rights...