November 19, 2014—The Rouhani administration should use all its authority to end the government’s initiatives to restrict Iranians’ access to the Internet, immediately cease state efforts to monitor users’ online accounts, and end the prosecution of individuals for their peaceful online activities, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. In a […]
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Iran Links Jailed Iranian-British Woman To Opposition
Iran’s judiciary says a jailed Iranian-British woman has officially been charged because of her links to the opposition, not for attending a volleyball match. ISNA news agency quoted on November 18 a statement by the Tehran’s prosecutor’s office as saying Ghoncheh Ghavami was active in opposition protests abroad. It also said Ghavami was in […]
Iran Says Has Responded To ‘Some’ Obama Letters
Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says Tehran has in “some cases” responded to letters by U.S. President Barack Obama. Shamkhani made the comments in reaction to a recent report by “The Wall Street Journal” that Obama sent a private letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month […]
Iran allows rights rapporteurs to visit country
Islamic Republic authorities have accepted a request to let two UN Human Rights rapporteurs visit Iran in the coming year. The deputy of the Iranian judiciary, who attended the Human Rights meetings in Geneva along with the Iranian delegation, told the Fars and Nasim news agencies: “We have agreed that two UN rapporteurs […]
Ebadi Says No Change To Iran’s Human Rights Record
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi says human rights in Iran are bad or even worse under President Hassan Rohani than they were under former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. Ebadi said the difference is that Ahmadinejad worked to limit human rights, while Rohani has vowed to ease restrictions of expression and eliminate discrimination against women […]
Iran To Ink Nuclear Deal In Moscow
The head of Iran’s nuclear program is expected on November 11 to finalize a deal with Russia to build two nuclear power plants. Ali Akbar Salehi is due to sign the agreement during a scheduled visit to Moscow. According to Iranian media reports, the two nuclear plants would be built by Russia near Iran’s […]
Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2014 (November 2014)
03.11.2014 – ISNA photographer released on bail Reporters Without Borders has learned that Arya Jafari, a photographer with the ISNA news agency, was released on bail on 1 November. Plainclothesmen arrested him after searching his home in Isfahan on 23 October because he covered a demonstration by about 100 people outside the lawcourts in […]
Amnesty International: Protection of human rights must go beyond fine words
The Iranian authorities’ decision to withhold their position on all the recommendations made during the country’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) until the next session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015 should not be another delaying tactics to avoid criticism, said Amnesty International. The authorities should rather use this time to […]
This week in human rights in Iran (October)
Women’s Rights Reyhaneh Jabbari was executed on October 25, drawing worldwide condemnation. Jabbari, who was in prison since 2007 and whose execution was postponed on October 1, was sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her. Domestic and international rights group have argued that the killing was in self-defense […]
Media Advisory: Iran must clean up human rights record at UN review
Spokesperson available for interview in Geneva On 31 October, the UN Human Rights Council will undertake an assessment of Iran’s human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review process (UPR). During Iran’s last review in 2010, the authorities accepted a string of recommendations to improve the country’s track record on human rights, but so […]