Iranian Government Ignores Calls to Cooperate With the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Questions to Ask Ahmadinejad (14 September...
UN Special Rapporteur Should Visit Iranian Prisons, Says Husband of Imprisoned Actress
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, celebrated Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai said that despite statements...
Weekly Rights Podcast 33
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the court reviewing the case of the three Americans arrested more than two years ago has not yet issued its...
New UN Special Rapporteur on Iran calls on the Government for full co-operation with his mandate
GENEVA (3 August 2011) – The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed,...
E-letter to UN Special Rapporteur: Urge Iran to Stop its Assault on the Country’s Artists
Updated 7/27/2011 Pegah Ahangarani and Mahnaz Mohammadi have been released on bail. The e-letter has been updated to reflect these new developments....
“No,” Says Head of Iran’s Judiciary to Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Only a few weeks after the United Nation’s Human Rights Council appointed Maldivian Ahmed Shaheed as UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for...
Radio Zamaneh: UN rights investigator appointed for Iran
The United Nations has appointed Ahmad Shaheed, the former foreign minister of Maldives, as special rapporteur on human rights for Iran. In March,...
UN Working Groups tells Iran ‘Release Kiarash Kamrani’: Will Officials Ignore the High-Ranking Body?
On 8 June 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that Kiarash Kamrani’s detention in Iran is “arbitrary...
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...
Report of UN Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran at the Human Rights Council in Geneva
Report of the UN Secretary General – September 2010 Download PDF of this report United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Sixteenth...