March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran March 2014 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented to the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council In the present report, the third to […]
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March 2014 report of the Secretary General on human rights in Iran
Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2014. 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 68/184, which requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-ninth session, and to submit […]
Weekly Report on Human Right Violation in Iran (11-03-2014)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran1. On Saturday 1 March 2014, the campaign of “Eleventh of Isfand”, related to human rights in Iran announced that this campaign has contacted the MP’s of various countries including India, England, Canada demanding immediate and unconditional freedom for the human rights activist and those prisoners who […]
EU diplomat’s meeting with Iranian activists stirs controversy
Tehran Member of Parliament Mehdi Kochakzadeh has taken shots at the Ministry of Intelligence and the Foreign Ministry for allowing EU diplomat Catherine Ashton to meet with “elements guilty of sedition.” On Wednesday March 12, Kochakzadeh described Ashton’s actions as worse than the policy of capitulation and insisted that Europeans have no right to […]
Family learns location of jailed journalist Hassanpour
Adnan Hassanpour, the jailed Iranian-Kurdish journalist who was transferred unexpectedly from Marivon Prison in Kurdistan to Zabol Prison in Sistan-Baluchistan, has been allowed out of quarantine after two weeks and transferred to Zaehdan Prison. Hassanpour’s family reports that after 25 days of no information, they have finally found out where he is. Leili Hassanpour, […]
Despite 328 Executions for Drug-Related Charges in 2013, UNODC Praises Iran’s Drug Fight
According to the Iran Human Rights’ (IHR) annual report on the death penalty in Iran, which will be published tomorrow, at least 328 people were executed for drug-related charges in 2013. The United Nations’ Office for Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has been cooperating with the Iranian authorities in combating drug trafficking. IHR urges the […]
Paper Close to Revolutionary Guards Doctors Ashton Photo to Erase Image of Torture Victim’s Mother
Almost immediately after EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met with a group of activists in Tehran, Iranian authorities unleashed a barrage of angry remarks and insults about her visit. Ali Larijani, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, said during an open session of the Parliament today that Ashton’s “act was very ugly,” and […]
Officials Do Not Fear Improper Meeting of ‘Seditionists’
Twenty Iranian lawmakers signed a petition demanding that the country’s intelligence chief explain the meeting that EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had with two Iranian human rights activists at the Austrian ambassador’s residence in Tehran when she was in Tehran last week. The Majlis’s national security committee issued a statement and others also […]
Jailed Dervishes Continue Hunger Strike
Iranian dervishes imprisoned in Evin, Rejaishahr, Nezam Shiraz and Central Bandar Abbas Prisons continue to refuse food to protest the authorities’ failure to provide them with adequate medical treatment. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that the dervishes on hunger strike are refusing to go to visiting halls and since last week and have not […]
Tehran Regime Targets Women in War on Sufis and Other Dissidents
On Saturday, March 8, members of the Gonabadi-Nimatullahi Sufi order, the most powerful Muslim contemplative body in Iran, assembled with supporters of other political prisoners in Tehran, for a peaceful protest against repression by the country’s clerical regime. Participants in the demonstration, held at the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office, totaled some 2,000 people. The Sufis […]