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Iranian authorities threaten daughters of opposition leaders
The daughters of Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been threatened with arrest by Islamic Republic security forces, the Kaleme Website reports. - 2/10/12
Iran increasingly controls its Internet
Whenever Maysam, a prominent Iranian blogger, connects to the Internet from his office in the bazaar, he switches on a special connection that for years would bypass the Islamic republic's increasingly effective firewall. But recently the software stopped working. -Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post - 2/10/12
Iran: Christian converts arrested in Shiraz
At least 10 Christian converts were arrested on Wednesday in Shiraz at a residential home that was used as a church. - 2/10/12
Iran: Supreme Leader Directly Responsible for Illegal Detentions of Opposition Leaders
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should immediately release the three opposition leaders who have spent the last year under illegal house arrest and stop using extrajudicial and inhumane methods to silence political opponents, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. - 2/9/12
Iran: Their Elections and Our Elections
Our elections have their own standards. The demand for these conditions is tied to the will and demands of every Iranian citizen. Until elections are held with international and accepted standards of fairness, freedom and openness, any such exercise shall remain "theirs" and not "ours." The elections they are holding are shows and theater which are masked with democratic facades. -Morteza Kazemian - 2/9/12
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group (the People's Mujahedin of Iran) that is financed, trained and armed by Israel's secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran's leaders. - 2/9/12
Ex-Marine sentenced to death in Iran needs U.S. intervention, lawyer pleads
A former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly spying for the CIA could be saved if the Obama administration would consider a prisoner swap, his Iranian attorney said Wednesday. -Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post - 2/9/12
Photos: Memories of Shah's Secret Service SAVAK at Tehran's Ebrat Museum
Iran's Ebrat Museum was once a prison of the shah's secret police, SAVAK. The museum displays and exhibits the documented atrocities of SAVAK including prison cells, interrogation rooms and torture chambers. -Armin Karami - 2/8/12
Zanyar and Loqman's Execution Imminent: Key in the Hands of Friday Prayer Leader
Marivan's Friday prayer leader, Mamusta Mostafa Shirzadi, who is a main player in the twisted case of Loqman and Zanyar Moradi, is not willing to make any public comments about the case of the two young men who have been sentenced to death. Shirzadi tells Rooz, "I don't think it wise to speak to the media; not now, not ever." -Kaveh Ghoreishi - 2/7/12
Iranian dissident sentenced to 14 years in jail
Iranian dissident Mehdi Khazali has been sentenced to 14 years in jail, 10 years in exile and 90 lashes. The director of Hayan Publications as well as a dissident blogger, Khazali received this sentence after more than 27 days on a hunger strike and he is in critically poor health. - 2/6/12
Iranian activists call for release of their peer
A group of 52 Iranian student activists has issued a statement calling for the release of Saeed Razavi Faqih. The former student activist was arrested in December upon his return to Iran. He is reportedly being held in an undetermined state and is probably being subjected to high-pressure interrogations. - 2/6/12
Widespread arrests in southwestern Iran
Iranian security forces have arrested 50 people over the past two weeks in the Arab neighbourhoods of the southwestern province of Khuseztan. Two of the detainees were killed while in custody, writer and human rights activist Yousef Azizi Banitaraf told Zamaneh. - 2/6/12
Iran seeks change to international conventions to prevent scientists killings: FM
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the Mehr News Agency on Monday that the Iranian Foreign Ministry is seeking a revision of relevant international conventions to prevent the assassination of its scientists. - 2/6/12
Iran: More Arrests Ahead of Elections
While the condition of recently detained journalists remains unknown, more journalists are arrested ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. In the latest instance, Reza Jelodarzadeh, editor-in-chief of the recently banned "Sobh-e Azadi" magazine was arrested. -Fereshteh Ghazi, Rooz Online - 2/5/12
Rights groups urge international community to press Iran to end violations
Reporters Without Borders, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights urge the international community to take a much firmer stance on respect for human rights in Iran by raising this essential issue in the talks currently under way with the country's authorities. - 2/4/12
NYPD Muslim Spy Scandal Grows With Newly Revealed Plan to Target Shiite Mosques
They make note of the number of Iranians who live in the northeast and then they talk a little bit about the makeup of Iran and the political nature of Iran, and then they list a bunch of recommendations. And the recommendations go from the obvious -- we should try to recruit more sources who speak Farsi, to things like we need to be increasing our intelligence gathering at Shiite mosques. -Democracy Now - 2/4/12
More than 200 Dead After Shelling in Syrian City
Human rights activists say Syrian armed forces have killed at least 217 people in the city of Homs in a surge of violence that began Friday, as the United Nations gets ready to vote on a resolution intended to stop the bloodshed. - 2/4/12
Iran: Stop Holding Reporters' Relatives Hostage
"Detaining a BBC reporter's relative seems to be part of a wider campaign to harass Iranian journalists by putting pressure on them and their families," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. - 2/3/12
BBC Reporter Interrogated Online By Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Security officials with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have used the Internet to interrogate an employee of the London-based BBC Persian service, according to a February 2 report on the opposition website "IranGreenVoice." - 2/3/12
Iran's Baha'i community targeted with more arrests
The Human Rights Reporters Committee announced on Friday that several Baha'is were arrested at their homes today in Shiraz. Details of the arrests have not yet been released, except that the arrests were carried out during sudden and simultaneous raids on the homes of the targeted people. - 2/3/12
Iran: Political Prisoners's Ward at Evin Prison Raided by Security Forces
Following this illegal act that took place in the presence of the special prosecutor's assistant, the prisoners broke out in slogans such as "Ya Hossein... Mir Hossein" , "Mahmoud the Traitor" and "Death to the Dictator" and sang the national anthem "Ey Iran" and other songs such as "Yareh Dabestani". - 2/2/12
Revoke Execution Sentence of Iranian Web Programmer
Iran should immediately suspend the death sentence for web programmer and Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour and investigate allegations of his torture, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. - 2/2/12
Iran denounces UN human rights rapporteur
The head of Iran's judiciary has denounced the United Nation's special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, saying Ahmad Shaheed's report is all "lies." - 2/2/12
Senior Iranian Cleric Calls For Release Of Opposition Leaders
Ayatollah Ali Mohammad Dastgheib, a senior Iranian cleric and a chief critic of the Islamic Republic's recent domestic policies, has called on the establishment to end the house arrest of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, the two opposition leaders who have been detained since last February. - 2/1/12
EU denounces clampdown on Iranian journalists
The European Union has added its voice to the international chorus denouncing the Islamic Republic's crackdown on Iranian journalists. - 2/1/12
US Muslim group asks Iran government for clemency for Iranian-American sentenced to death
An American Muslim group has appealed to Iran's top leader to show clemency for an ex-U.S. military translator with dual citizenship condemned to death on accusations of being a CIA spy. -AP - 2/1/12
Opposition group calls on Iranians to join rally on February 14
The Kaleme opposition website wrote that on the anniversary of last year's February 14th street protests, the Coordination Council for the Green Path of Hope is calling on all supporters of the Green Movement to take part in public but silent demonstrations. - 1/31/12
Iran's Cyberpolice Detain Facebook Group Administrators
Iran's cyberpolice say they have arrested four administrators of a Facebook group called "Daaf and Paaf," which had launched an online beauty competition. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/31/12
Iran's Film Community Demands Ban On House Of Cinema Be Lifted
Close to 2,000 members of Iran's film community have voiced their protest against the Iranian government's decision to ban the House of Cinema, an independently run organisation that promotes the film industry. - 1/31/12
Iran: Sunni Parliamentary Faction Objects to Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei
In a letter addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Sunni members of the Iranian Parliament asked for an end to discrimination against Sunnis, an end to religious limitations for Sunnis, and permission to construct a mosque in Tehran. - 1/31/12
Iran: New Arrests of Labor Activists
Iranian authorities should immediately release dozens of labor and independent trade union activists imprisoned for speaking out peacefully in defense of workers, Human Rights Watch said today. - 1/31/12
Iranian journalist Hassan Fathi released
Fathi was arrested after being interviewed by the BBC about the controversial explosion in one of the Revolutionary Guards' ammunition's depots near Tehran. - 1/31/12
Iran: Supreme court upholds death sentence for web programmer
Iran's Supreme Court has approved the death sentence for Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web developer who has been jailed in Iran since 2008. Iranian authorities accuse Malekpour of launching "obscene websites." - 1/29/12
Sharif University calls arrest of Iranian professor by U.S. "hideous" and "childish" action
Sharif University of Technology in a statement on Saturday lashed out at the US for detaining a prominent Iranian university professor, Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, for buying laboratory equipment, and said the move proves Washington's monopolistic attempts to prevent the spread and growth of science. - 1/28/12
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Urged to Resign After Police Conceal Role in Anti-Muslim Documentary
A coalition of New York Muslim and interfaith groups gathered at City Hall Thursday calling for the resignation of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police spokesperson Paul Browne. The protest was held after it was revealed the police department had shown an anti-Muslim film titled The Third Jihad to nearly 1,500 officers during training. -Democracy Now - 1/28/12
US Arrests Iranian Scientist and Sharif University Professor
According to a report by AP, the United States has arrested and charged Iranian semiconductor scientist Mojtaba Atarodi with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment. The 54-year-old scientist was detained on December 7 after stepping off a plane in Los Angeles and is being held in a federal prison in Dublin, California. - 1/27/12
Concern For Iranian Opposition Leader Under House Arrest
The wife of detained Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi reports that she has been completely cut off from her husband, adding that the authorities are now holding him in solitary confinement. - 1/27/12
Death Sentences Upheld for Two Kurdish Political Prisoners
The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of two Kurdish political prisoners, local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. - 1/27/12
Iran: New Assault on Freedom of Information - Journalists, Bloggers Arrested Ahead of Elections
Iranian authorities should immediately charge or release at least 10 journalists and bloggers arrested since the beginning of 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests appear to be part of the government's most recent campaign to disrupt the free flow of information ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for March 2. - 1/26/12
Iran Lingers Low On Press Freedom Index
Iran ranks near the bottom of the Press Freedom Index for 2011-2012, which was released today by the press rights organization Reporters Without Borders. - 1/26/12
Ebadi calls for boycott of Iran elections, release of opposition leaders
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate, is throwing her support behind the 39 Iranian political prisoners calling for an election boycott and the release of Iran's opposition leaders from house arrest. - 1/26/12
UAE Tries to Muffle Critical Human Rights Report
Officials in the United Arab Emirates have attempted to prevent a leading rights group from publicizing a report that criticizes the UAE's record on free speech. - 1/26/12
Iranians Rally Against Censorship and Satellite Jamming at World Radiocommunication Conference
Today, Iranian protestors gathered in Geneva, demanding the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency, to take action on the Iranian government's illegal internet and communications censorship. - 1/24/12
Well-known literary translator detained in Iran
Family and friends of a well-known literary translator in Iran are concerned for his well-being after he was detained for unknown reasons nearly two weeks ago. -Sarah Aarthun, CNN - 1/24/12
International Body Should End Iran's Illegal Satellite Jamming
The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), the UN regulatory gathering opening today in Geneva, should take decisive steps to end the Iranian government's illegal and widespread jamming of satellite signals, theInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. - 1/23/12
Detained Iranian journalists held at Tehran's Evin Prison
Reports from Iran indicate that Parastoo Dokouhaki and Marzieh Rasouli, two journalists and bloggers who were recently arrested, are being held in the 2-aleph section of Evin Prison. - 1/23/12
Iran must halt execution of web programmer
Iran must not execute a web programmer sentenced to death after one of his web programs was used to post pornographic images without his knowledge, Amnesty International said today, as the Iranian authorities continue their crackdown on bloggers and other users of the internet. - 1/23/12
Iran: Authorities Defiant on Rights Record
Iranian authorities in 2011 carried out more than 600 executions and imprisoned more journalists and bloggers than any other country, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2012 Iran chapter. - 1/22/12
Another Iranian Journalist Arrested
Journalist and blogger Shahram Manouchehri was arrested this week by Iranian authorities, the latest casualty of a new crackdown on media activists. - 1/22/12
Rights group denounces arrest of Iranian labour activists
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has issued a call to action regarding the recent arrest of labour activists in Iran and called for their immediate and unconditional release. - 1/21/12
Even in death, Iran's Baha'is face persecution
In recent years, there have been dozens of incidents of vandalism, arson, or other problems related to Baha'i-owned cemeteries or efforts by Baha'is to bury their dead. Authorities are currently trying to confiscate and destroy the Baha'i cemetery in Sanandaj, some 400 kilometers west of Tehran. -BWNS - 1/21/12
Jailed Iranian Blogger on Hunger Strike Hospitalized
Jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been transferred to hospital in critical condition. Iran's House of Human Rights website reports that Ronaghi Maleki was transferred to Hasheminejad hospital on Thursday. - 1/21/12
Iran: Human Rights Lawyer Seifzadeh Refused to Participate in Own Trial Due To Revolutionary Court's Incompetence
Mohammad Seifzadeh, prominent lawyer and one of the founding members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, did not participate in his court trial on 11 January 2012, his wife and lawyer Fatemeh Golzar told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. - 1/20/12
Wave Of Arrests Reported Ahead Of Iranian Elections
The wave of arrests ahead of the March 2 parliamentary elections appears to signal attempts by the Iranian establishment to prevent any form of dissent. The regime has also been tightening its grip on the Internet by putting new restrictions in place, in what seems to be an attempt to head off protests similar to those that shook the government two years ago. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/19/12
Angels Of Iran: Education Under Fire Releases Video Series
The Education Under Fire initiative, in coordination with a coalition of human rights organizations focusing on Iran, has announced the release of seven new "Angels of Iran" videos. These short films are personal stories of courage and resilience in the face of torture, imprisonment, and execution under the Islamic Republic of Iran. - 1/19/12
Iran cracks down on journalists
In a new wave of arrests targeting media activists, Marzieh Rasouli has been arrested in Tehran. This week, Parastoo Dokouhaki, another journalist and women's rights activist, was also arrested in Tehran. Mohammad Soleymani-nia, a translator and writer, was also arrested this week. - 1/18/12
Scholars, Academicians, Journalists, and Activists Condemn Murder of Iranian Technical and Scientific Experts
On January 12, 2012, a bomb ripped apart a car in Tehran, killing Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan and his driver, and injuring several others. In the past two years, four other Iranian scientists have been killed in a similar manner. - 1/18/12
Iran: Death Sentence For Netizen Confirmed, New Arrests
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the supreme court has confirmed website designer Saeed Malekpour's death sentence. His family said the court took the decision under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards. A Canadian resident who was arrested on 4 October 2008 while visiting his family, Malekpour, 35, was sentenced to death in January 2011 on charges of anti-government agitation and insulting Islam. - 1/18/12
Iran: Concerns Mount Regarding Zahra Rahnavard's Physical Well Being
Almost a year has past since the illegal house arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard. During this time, Mousavi and Rahnavard have been deprived of their basic civil rights such as visitation and contact with their family members and loved ones. - 1/17/12
Iranian-American Artist Channels Arab Spring In New Exhibition
Renowned Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat says her new exhibition, a series of photographs inspired by the Arab Spring and a short film about government censorship, is her most political work yet -- channeling both current events and the situation in her native country. - 1/16/12
Ahmadinejad Aide Convicted For Insulting Iranian Supreme Leader
An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's press adviser to one year in prison for insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. - 1/16/12
Letter to Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan
I am an Iranian student from abroad. As I was preparing for my PhD defence, and finalizing my plans to move back to Iran, news of your death reached me on January 11th. This is not the first time that we witness the killing of an Iranian scientist through Western and Israeli-led operations. -Shirin Saeidi - 1/16/12
Twelve convicts executed in Shiraz
The Mehr News Agency reported that the executed people had been convicted of crimes that include "kidnapping, rape, armed robbery and drug smuggling." The seven prisoners convicted of drug charges were hanged at Shiraz Prison and the other five were hanged in public. - 1/15/12
Who Assassinated an Iranian Nuclear Scientist? Israel Isn't Telling
Like three previous Iranian scientists ambushed on their morning commute, the latest nuclear expert to die on his way to work was a victim of Israel's Mossad, Western intelligence sources tell TIME. - 1/15/12
Iran: Death sentences and national Internet
The Iranian government's constant repressive policies towards journalists and netizens are being steadily ratcheted up as part of a generalized increase in persecution of dissidents and a reinforcement of online censorship. -Reporters Without Borders - 1/13/12
Prominent Iranian director challenges closure of House of Cinema
Prominent Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has written a letter to the Ministry of Culture, calling for a vote on the decision to dissolve the House of Cinema in Iran. - 1/12/12
Iran's Leaders Shut Down Independent Film Group
Brushing aside protests by Iranian filmmakers and rights activists, Iran's Culture Ministry on Wednesday formally dissolved the House of Cinema, the only domestic organization that supports independent film, and moved to replace it with a committee that would not deviate from strict Islamic guidelines and politically permissible topics. -NY Times - 1/12/12
Photos: Iranian Official at Natanz Nuclear Site Assassinated In Tehran
An Iranian academic was killed in a terrorist attack in Tehran on Wednesday morning. The academic was identified as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, a graduate of Sharif University of Technology in chemical engineering. The incident occurred at about 8:20 a.m. local time. - 1/11/12
Bomb Kills Iran Nuclear Scientist, Bodyguard
Iran says the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists in Tehran will not stop the progress of its nuclear program, in the fourth attack targeting an Iranian nuclear physicist in two years. - 1/11/12
Iranian Judiciary Should Dismiss Ministry Order Against House of Cinema
The Iranian Judiciary should withdraw the Ministry of Culture order to shut down House of Cinema, the country's leading independent film association, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Authorities should end the unlawful attacks on independent civil society organizations and on freedom of expression and association, the Campaign added. - 1/11/12
Iran: Government critics disqualified from running for re-election
Iran's Ministry of the Interior has disqualified a number of current MPs from running in the upcoming Parliamentary elections. - 1/11/12
Iran: Former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi Sentenced to Eight Years In Prison
Following an eight-year prison sentence for political activist and head of the Iran Freedom Movement Ebrahim Yazdi, his son-in-law Mehdi Nourbakhsh called the ruling cruel in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. - 1/11/12
Jailed human rights activists taken to hospital
Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, has been transferred to hospital by Iranian prison authorities after spending nearly five years in Tehran's Evin Prison. - 1/11/12
Iranian Judiciary Must Reverse American Citizen's Death Sentence
The Iranian judiciary should immediately rescind the death sentence in the appeals court issued for Iranian-American citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. - 1/10/12
U.S. condemns Iran death sentence for Hekmati
The United States has condemned the death sentence handed to Amir Mirzai Hekmati, the U.S. citizen of Iranian origin accused of espionage, saying the charges against him are "false." - 1/10/12
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