Amnesty International is calling on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to immediately retract his statement on Wednesday that criticising the outcome of June’s presidential election is a crime.
The Supreme Leader’s remark was carried by state television in a report from Khamenei’s meeting with scientists in Tehran.
“The Ayatollah’s statement seeks to criminalise legitimate peaceful dissent and dissatisfaction with [...]

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Iran has executed a young woman convicted of murdering her father’s cousin when she was 17.  Human rights groups have criticised Iran for not complying with an international ban on executing juvenile offenders, the execution of 22 year old Delara Darabi took place last Friday in the northern city of Rasht. Neither her lawyer or [...]

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The government of Iran should amend or abolish broadly worded national security laws used to stifle peaceful dissent in the country’s Kurdish areas and end arbitrary arrests of Kurdish critics and dissidents.
The 42-page Human Rights Watch report, “Iran: Freedom of Expression and Association in the Kurdish Regions,” documents how Iranian authorities use security laws, press [...]

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The Iranian government should immediately end its campaign of persecution against Dr. Shirin Ebadi, which has now escalated to mob threats and violence against her home, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said on the January 2nd, 2009. Dr. Ebadi is the 2003 Nobel peace laureate and is a [...]

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The unlawful raid by Iranian security forces on the Tehran rights group run by Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi on December 21, 2008, raises concerns of a broader attempt to silence Iran’s human rights community, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said today.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran [...]

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The Iranian government is escalating its attacks against women activists, subjecting them to arbitrary detention, travel bans, and harassment.
On October 26, 2008, security agents blocked Sussan Tahmasebi, a leader of the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality, from boarding a plane and confiscated her passport, without charging her with any crime. At her home, they [...]

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Amnesty International calls on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary to apply with immediate effect today’s announcement that it will end the death penalty for those under the age of 18, irrespective of the type of crime allegedly committed.
Iran has instructed all courts to cease the execution of juvenile offenders who have committed crimes punishable by [...]

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Groups from 82 Countries Seek Urgent Reforms
As UN member states begin three days of debate on the rights of the child, more than 300 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from 82 countries called on the UN General Assembly to take urgent action to end executions for crimes committed by children, Human Rights Watch said today.
The vast majority [...]

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For the second time in one month Turkish law enforcement officials have expelled the same group of Uzbekistani refugees into Iranian territory in flagrant disregard for international standards protecting the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.
Amnesty International is calling on the Turkish authorities to conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the circumstances of the illegal [...]

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Executions Increase Almost 300 Percent, Persecution of Rights Defenders Intensifies
Under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, basic human rights protection in Iran has deteriorated to new lows, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a briefing paper released today.
The new paper, “Iran Rights Crisis Escalates: Faces and Cases [...]

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