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US, EU Should Seek Release of Dual-National Hostages in Tandem with Nuclear Talks

Mitra Haji Najafi Released

29 Members of EU Parliament Urge Iran to Release Detained Journalists and Activists Ahead of 2017 Elections

vigilante-violence-the-acid-attacks-against-women-in-iran-and-the-state’s-assault-on-women’s-rightsPromotion of Virtue Legislation Calls for Citizen Enforcement of Women’s “Proper” Hijab   March 6, 2015—The Iranian Parliament should immediately...
world-press-freedom-index-2015-decline-on-all-fronts The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media...
iranian-government-spying-in-social-networking-sitesThis is a field report about the indifference of internet users to the Islamic republic regime’s spying efforts in cyber space as it tries to identify...
new-report-reveals-iranian-tv’s-continued-human-rights-violations The United States should reinstate sanctions on Iran’s state TV and radio broadcasting agency, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for the...
special-rapporteur-s-march-2013-report-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran       Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran   Summary The present report is the second to be...
in-the-name-of-the-truthMonths before attacking and hacking on the websites of BBC and its staff by undercover security agents, my Facebook account (Nahal Bagheri) was hacked and...
document-iran-prisoner-of-conscience-faces-death-threats-mohammad-ali-taheriUA: 212/14 Index: MDE 13/047/2014 Iran    Date: 26 August 2014URGENT ACTIONprisoner of conscience faces death threats Prisoner of conscience Mohammad...
a-letter-from-a-young-baha’i-resident-of-tabrizI am a Baha’i citizen of Iran; I live in Tabriz and love to serve my country. Like all other citizens, I have done my military service and paid taxes for...
announcement13-further-information-about-the-reasons-of-elia-m-recent-detentionIn the name of freedom Elia M. is released. The great teacher of thinking, Master Elia M. (Peyman Fattahi), the president of Association of Free Thinkers...
narges-mohammadi’s-letter-to-the-tehran-prosecutorNarges Mohamadi, the Deputy Head of the Defenders for Human Rights Center (DHRC) and the Executive Chairwoman of the National Peace Council, recently...
foreign-secretary-statement-on-storming-of-british-embassy-in-iran  29 November 2011 Foreign Secretary William Hague say UK takes 'irresponsible action extremely seriously'.The Foreign Secretary said:“This afternoon our...
the-statement-of-the-committee-of-lawyers-for-human-rights-on-the-recent-attack-on-the-un-compFriday, the tragic news of attack on the UN Compound in Mazar-i-Sharif and killing and beheading the UN staff members shocked the world. During the...
vigilante-violence-the-acid-attacks-against-women-in-iran-and-the-state’s-assault-on-women’s-rightsPromotion of Virtue Legislation Calls for Citizen Enforcement of Women’s “Proper” Hijab   March 6, 2015—The Iranian Parliament should immediately...
world-press-freedom-index-2015-decline-on-all-fronts The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media...
iranian-government-spying-in-social-networking-sitesThis is a field report about the indifference of internet users to the Islamic republic regime’s spying efforts in cyber space as it tries to identify...
new-report-reveals-iranian-tv’s-continued-human-rights-violations The United States should reinstate sanctions on Iran’s state TV and radio broadcasting agency, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for the...
special-rapporteur-s-march-2013-report-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran       Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran   Summary The present report is the second to be...
in-the-name-of-the-truthMonths before attacking and hacking on the websites of BBC and its staff by undercover security agents, my Facebook account (Nahal Bagheri) was hacked and...

Iranian Books Stuck in Censorship Quagmir

By Omid Nikfarjam is a Prague-based Iranian journalist and translator who has published over 15 books, among them Persian translations of works by J. D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, and Truman Capote.
Spare a thought for Iran’s literary censors – unloved by writers and publishers alike, they have thousands of works to read through, so much so that the piles of books have spilled out from their rooms at the culture ministry into the corridors.

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

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Amnesty International: Iran-Worsening repression of dissent as election approaches

Amnesty International: Iran-Worsening repression of dissent as election approaches / FEB 2009

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What are human rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.

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