READ FULL REPORT IN ENGLISH The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution22/23, in which the Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for the second time. Presented to the UN General Assembly […]
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U.S. Pastor Detained In Iran Reported Released
A U.S. clergyman who has been held in Iran since October 21 has told relatives he will be returning home on a flight arriving in Los Angeles later on October 23. Eddie Romero spoke to his family by telephone on October 22 from Tehran. Romero traveled to Iran in order to protet against the […]
Kayhan’s emphasis on making files and cases against the Iranian immigrants in case of their return
Kayhan newspaper, which is published under the auspices of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative, in its Sunday issue calls for the judiciary, The Ministry of Information and Intelligence, law enforcement and other security-related organs to confront the Iranian critics who are planning to return back to Iran . The newspaper by refering to a Reuters’ […]
Lab Tests Show Karroubi’s Health Seriously Deteriorating Under House Arrest
Political dissident and 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest since February 2011, is suffering from an alarmingly low level of vitamin D and osteoporosis, according to pathology laboratory test results the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained. Considering his unfavorable health conditions, continuing his detention […]
Culture minister says opinions allowed on women singing solo
Iran’s minister of culture says it is not wrong to express an opinion about solo female singers in Iranian music. ILNA reports that Culture Minister Ali Jannati said: “Every person is free to express their own opinion in this regard, but there is not even consensus among senior religious leaders on this subject.” […]
Ebadi Calls On West To Improve Treatment Of Migrants
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran has called on the West to improve its treatment of refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and the Arab world. “These people are fleeing poverty. They are fleeing despotism. They are fleeing the oppression meted out by their governments,” Ebadi said while speaking at a […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (19-10-2013)
Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. Last week, a group of Araki citizen held a gathering in the National Garden of the city in protest against the city’s air pollution. This protest took place despite the presence of a large number of police officers.2. The European Parliament published a statement in Strasbourg […]
Iranian Student Activist Granted Prison Leave
Majid Tavakoli, a prominent jailed student activist and one of the symbols of Iran’s embattled student movement, has been given prison leave for the first time since his arrest in 2009. Tavakoli was arrested after publicly criticizing repression in Iran. He was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison on a number of charges, […]
Parliamentary commission aims to halt benefits to high-income families
The Iranian Parliament’s Programming and Budget Commission has approved a plan to stop paying family benefits to families in the top three tiers of income. In recent years, the Iranian government implemented a plan to scrap government subsidies on staple foods and energy and instead began a program of paying out cash benefits to […]
Iran’s environmental chief says “illegal” satellite towers coming down
The head of Iran’s Department of the Environment has announced that all “illegal” satellite reception towers designed to interfere with signals will be dismantled. ISNA reports that Massoumeh Ebtekar told reporters on Sunday October 20: “The new satellite reception towers in Tehran that have been erected without permission and all those that […]