Iran Human Rights and Liberties

Iran Human Rights and Liberties

• Amnesty International – Iran Documents
  Publications and news releases about Iran including links to Annual Report entries.

• Campaign to Free Iranâs Students
  Set up in support of Iranian students that have been jailed.

• Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees
  Organization of Iranian refugees and asylum seekers. Newsletter, fact sheets and contact information.

• Democracy Network of Iran
  A site to promote democracy and Human Rights in Iran

• Entezam.org
  Site dedicated to Mr. Abbas Amir Entezam, longest held political prisoner in Iran. Includes biography and photos.

• Human Rights in Iran
  An interview from 1998 with Shirin Ebadi, the first female judge in Iran before the revolution.

• Human Rights Watch – Iran Documents
  Links to World Report entries for Iran and bibliography of human rights articles and books.

• I Advocate Reforms
  Interview with Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

• Imprisoned Lovers: The Persecution of Muslim Sufis in Iran
  Article by Malik Carn.

• International Federation of Iranian Refugees
  Organizes protests supporting Iranian refugees and publishes Hambastegi (Solidarity), a bimonthly publication promoting this mission.

• Iranian Refugees Alliance
  Promotes the human rights of Iranian refugees and asylum seekers internationally. Contains many documents issued by various international and national bodies on human rights in Iran.

• Mission for the Establishment of Human Rights in Iran (Mehr Iran)
  Promotes awareness of the human rights situation in Iran through articles, urgent actions and petitions.

• Organization for Defending Victims of Violence
  Tehran-based NGO promoting non-violence and human rights. Weekly news releases, monthly newsletter and feature articles.

• Stoning to Death in Iran
  Information about the practice of stoning in Iran, including excerps from the Islamic regime’s penal code and a case study of the stoning of Iranian women. Also features a video of four individuals being stoned in the presence of high ranking officials of Iran’s judiciary. Warning: this video is graphic and very disturbing.

• Trial of Iranian Jews Should be Postponed
  Human Rights Watch today urged officials presiding over the trial of thirteen Iranian Jews to make public the official charges against the defendants.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1996
  Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1996.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1997
  Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1997.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1998
  Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1998.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 1999
  Report on human rights practices in Iran in 1999.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 2000
  Report on human rights practices in Iran in 2000.

• U.S. Department of State: Iran Human Rights Report for 2001
  - Report on human rights practices in Iran in 2001.

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Iran
  Links to United Nations resolutions relating to Iran, reports of the Special Representative on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, press releases, statements and other documents.

• Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights

• From my Iranian Prison
  Mohammad Khoshzough describes his experiences and torture in an Iranian jail.

• Pirooz F. Davani
  Information about a political activist missing since August 1998 from Tehran.

• Pirooz F. Davani
  Information about a political activist missing since August 1998 from Tehran.

• The Tree that Remembers
  National Film Board of Canada site for Masoud Raouf’s film reflecting on the betrayal of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the tenacity of the human spirit.