The health conditions of three ill Gonabadi Dervish hunger strikers, Hamid-Reza Moradi, Mostafa Daneshjou and Afshin Karampour in 14th day of their hunger strike, have reportedly deteriorated.According to Majzooban Noor, these Dervishes are in critical conditions due to extreme weakness which is the result of hunger and lose more than 10 Kgs weight during […]
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Human Rights Activist Rejects Criticism of her Meeting with Ashton
Narges Mohammadi, the human rights activist at the center of a controversy over her meeting in Tehran with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, has defended her action. “Objections to our meeting with Ashton are harmful to the atmosphere of moderation and trust promised by the Rouhani Administration,” Narges Mohammadi told the International Campaign […]
Abdollah Momeni released from prison
Abdollah Momeni, a prominent student activist and spokesman for Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat, was released on March 13 after five years in jail. Momeni, who headed the Free Citizens for Mehdi Karroubi presidential campaign, was arrested in June of 2009 in the aftermath of the controversial presidential election, which was marred with allegations of vote […]
Letter by Hossein Ronaghi’s father to Tehran Prosecutor
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – In a letter to the Tehran Prosecutor, Hossein Ronaghi’s father divulges that a judicial office administrator has personally taken action to prevent medical furlough for the jailed activist. In his letter Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki disclosed that an individual by the name of Sattari who is the Director of […]
UN Rapporteur Slams Iran for Lack of Judiciary Independence and Execution Surge
Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, released his third report to the UN Human Rights Council today, emphasizing alarm over the surge in the number of executions, as well as lack of independence of the Iranian Judiciary. For his research the Special Rapporteur interviewed more than […]
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 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 […]
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, […]