According to CHRR, Mohammad Bagher Moradi was informed via a phone call that Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Pir-Abassi had issued him a 5-year prison sentence on the charge of “illegal gathering and collusion against national security.”
Members of Saraye Ahl-e Ghalam (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters - Hossein Salmanzadeh, refugee in police custody in Turkey, has launched a hunger strike in protest of his request for political asylum being ignored. Salmanzadeh who has been in custody at the Turkey police detention center since April 25th is on his 4th day (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters –
Translated by: Sanaz Fotouhi
Where on my body
are your eyes zigzagging?
I die for you!!
The hungry bludger gambling
With the lice in my empty pocket
and still hung over in the Zipper’s ducts
Where have muted body parts been penetrated by the drill (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Moments ago another 3 journalists, Nasrin Takhoyori, Saba Azarpeik and Sasan Aghayee were released on bail.
According to CHRR, Nasrin Takhayori, editor of the social affairs section of Etemad newspaper and Sasan Aghayee, editor of the Saturday supplement (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Blogger and political activist Mohammad Reza Pourshajari suffered a heart attack on February 17 and was transferred to the infirmary at Karaj Central prison. According to news provided to CHRR, three physicians at the prison facility by the names of (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On January 27, 2013, five followers of Ayatollah Dastgheib were arrested in Shiraz. Per a source close to Ayatollah Dastgheib, the name of one of the individuals detained is Taher Faghih. Another 4 individuals were detained at their home in the early (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On Sunday January 27, five Ahwazi Arab death row prisoners contacted their family by phone from Karoun prison in Ahvaz. According to news obtained by CHRR, the 5 minority prisoners who had been moved to an undisclosed location on January 17th have now been (...)
Keyvan Mehregan, Hossein Yaghchi and Saba Azarpeik arrested, Motehareh Shafii released Committee of Human Rights Reporters – In the past three days at least 14 journalists from five media outlets in Tehran were arrested at their homes and their offices. Today January 28, 2013, security (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Agents from the Security Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran conducted a simultaneous raid of five reformist news publications; Shargh, Etemad, Bahar and Arman newspapers, and Aseman magazine.
According to informed sources to CHRR, so far the following (...)
Human Rights Watch:
(London) – Iran’s judiciary should quash death sentences against five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority and immediately cancel their execution, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The sentences were handed down by a revolutionary court and upheld by (...)
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human watch rights: (Beirut)– The Iranian government is increasingly violating workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association. Dozens of labor and independent trade union activists are in prison for speaking out in defense of workers.Human Rights Watch called for the government to end the (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On January 18, five Ahwazi Arab political prisoners sentenced to death were transferred from Karoun prison to an undisclosed location and their whereabouts remain unknown despite their families’ efforts to obtain any information. The 5 Ahwazi Arab political (...)
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT
24 January 2013 AI Index: MDE 13/007/2013
Iran: Stop the Execution of Ahwazi Arab political prisoners
Whereabouts of Five Condemned Men Unknown
Iran’s judiciary should quash death sentences against five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority and (...)
Radio Farda: On the 59th commemoration of “16 Azar” (Student Day), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi and 3 human rights organizations have issued a joint statement to the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran demanding an end to the oppression of students in the country.
Amnesty (...)
As December 6th of this year is approaching, it marks the 3rd year that Majid Tavakoli, student activist at Amir Kabir University is behind bars serving his 8.5-year prison sentence. Judicial authorities refused to grant furlough despite the initial agreement to a 700 million-toman bail in (...)
(New York, September 19, 2011) – The Iranian government should immediately provide information regarding the whereabouts and condition of prominent rights activist Koohyar Goodarzi, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the authorities to immediately charge or release Goodarzi, (...)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) – In a statement, Amnesty International protested against the arrest, harassment and torture of Gonabadi dervishes and their lawyers. An excerpt of the statement which refers to harassment and violation of the rights of religious minorities [in Iran]: (...)
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters has published statement on the continued detention of Kouhyar Goudarzi and his mother Parvin Mokhtare
Kouhyar Goudarzi, a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters has been detained in Iran for more than one month. He was illegally kidnapped by (...)
URGENT ACTION iranian rights activist and mother arrested
Kouhyar Goudarzi, a member of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), was arrested on 31 July 2011 in Tehran , Iran , by plainclothes individuals believed to be from the Ministry of Intelligence. His mother , Parvin Mokhtareh, (...)
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