Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Iraqi government’s “news blackout” imposed on Camp Ashraf, where scores of Iranian exiles were reportedly killed in an attack by government forces. “To hide abuses committed against civilians, the security forces are denying journalists access to the camp,” Reporters Without Borders said in an announcement. “Anyone trying to take [...]
Political prisoners at Karaj’s Rejaishahr Prison have announced a hunger strike in solidarity with Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour, who has been going without food at Evin Prison in pursuit of a personal visit with her husband. A statement from the political prisoners says the strike will begin on Sunday, in protest of “summoning, arrests, threats and pressures [...]
An Iranian Army aircraft has crashed around the southern city of Sarvestan in Iran’s Fars Province, killing the pilot and injuring the co-pilot, local officials say. The plane crashed near Khavaran village on Sunday, while on a training mission, an informed provincial official told IRNA. Reports say the plane, which belonged to the Islamic Republic [...]
Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats “in retaliation” for Kuwait’s decision to kick out Iranian envoys, state-run Press TV reported. Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah said on March 31 that several Iranian diplomats were “persona non grata and must be expelled.” Press TV said three Iranian diplomats were expelled on April 2. The move came [...]
Karim Lahidji, Vice-president of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and President of the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), said today: “Arresting and persecuting lawyers is another dimension of the total disregard of the Iranian authorities for due process, and standards of fair trial. The authorities are punishing the human rights [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed his chief of staff on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported, sidelining a controversial figure who is seen as a possible future presidential contender. Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, a target for Ahmadinejad’s detractors within the conservative ruling elite, has survived many calls to be sacked and had enjoyed the confidence of [...]
Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday confirmed claims by an exiled Iranian opposition group that a factory west of Tehran is manufacturing centrifuge parts, but said the facility was no secret and that many other factories in the counrty were making components for Iran’s nuclear program. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi came two days after [...]
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Irancalled on the Iranian Judiciary to halt mass executions and inhumane conditions in Vakilabad Prison in Mashad, which an inmate detailed in a recent letter to the head of the Judiciary. The Iranian Judiciary has done nothing to address the horrific situation at Valikabad despite international concerns culminating in a [...]
Iran Violence And Intimidation, Including Summary Executions Clinton also mentioned Iran, which the report said “continued a campaign of postelection violence and intimidation” that began after the much-maligned reelection in 2009 of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian government severely limited citizens’ right to peacefully change their government through free and fair elections and continued a [...]
According to Kaleme, Ali Tabarzadi, the son of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi who is the imprisoned leader of the National Democratic Front of Iran in Rajai Shahr prison, said to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “One of my father’s former ward mates, who is not a political prisoner, was accused of having telephone numbers [...]