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Issues & Insights | Moe Alafchi | 6/21/2019 Thousands of Iranian expatriates are expected to gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 21, to demonstrate in support of a firm U.S. policy toward the dictatorship, which echoes what thousands of their fellow Iranians conveyed in Brussels last weekend. That might seem surprising to some readers, especially in light of some commentary that the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy may lead to a conflict with Iran. The Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) rejects that characterization, and so do the various American policymakers and foreign policy experts who plan to participate in the rally outside…
Friday June 21, 2019 Time: 11 am 2201 C St. NW Washington D.C 2o520
Amnesty International | June 3, 2019 Responding to the news that Iranian human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and 111 lashes for his human rights work, including publicizing violations through a channel he set up on the Telegram mobile messaging app and giving media interviews, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Philip Luther, said: “This shockingly harsh sentence is an outrageous injustice. Amirsalar Davoudi is blatantly being punished for his work defending human rights. “Setting up a Telegram channel to expose human rights violations is not…
Center for Human Rights in Iran | May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 – Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of Maryam Akbari-Monfared, who has already served nearly 10 years on baseless charges and should have been eligible for release last year, and free her immediately, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and Justice for Iran (JFI) said in a joint statement today. Not only were the charges against Akbari-Monfared never substantiated, but under Iran’s New Penal Code, her conviction should have been overturned. Even if she had been convicted of new charges again, she would have…
Iran Human Rights | May 20, 2019 Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a juvenile offender on death row in Iran, has been denied access to medical care outside prison despite suffering from severe intestinal bleeding. According to IHR sources, Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a prisoner on death row in Shiraz Central Prison (also known as Adelabad) suffers from severe intestinal bleeding. “Despite an order by prison’s doctor to transfer Mohammad Reza to a hospital for treatment by specialists, the authorities refused to grant him the permission,” one of Mohammad relatives told IHR. Mohammad Reza Haddadi, currently held at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz,…
HRANA | May 20, 2019 Twenty-two detainees charged with robbery in Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary are afraid of cutting off their hands. The verdict of one of these prisoners is scheduled to run in the coming days. Alireza Khan Baluchi, son of Massoud, born in 1974, is one of the convicts. He says, “The sentence is due to be handed down in the coming days by sending the verdict”. This is while he has paid for the stolen property. The identity of three other defendants is Azizullah Tajik, Afghan citizen, Mohammad Bookhi, and Mohammed Fuzlordy. Currently, 19 other detainees…
Amnesty International’s written statement to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council (25 February – 22 March 2019) AI Index: MDE 13/9828/2019 – 11 February 2019 Amnesty International urges all states to renew and support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian authorities to cooperate with the mandate. The organization deeply values the work of the Special Rapporteur in investigating and reporting on wide-ranging human rights violations that the Iranian authorities are committing against their people. It also greatly appreciates the urgent appeals that the Special Rapporteur issues…
Stand For Human Rights in Iran Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:00 AM Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 2nd. Ave & 47th St United Nations New York, NY Sponsor: Association of Iranian Americans in New York Member of Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC)-www.oiac.org Contact: Mo Alafchi at media@oiac.org
ARAB NEWS | Dr. Majid Rafizadeh | September 16, 2018 This Islamic Republic of Iran is mired in crises, few of which stem from US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the subsequent renewed economic sanctions. Those actions only serve to help the US, and hopefully the international community as a whole, in putting pressure on Iran’s clerical regime at a time when it is most vulnerable and least likely to conceal the misdeeds that make such pressure necessary. Iran’s national currency, the Rial, plumbed new depths this month, trading at more than 150,000 to the US dollar. The…
By INU Staff | August 18, 2018 INU – The US State Department confirmed on Wednesday, August 15, that it is “closely monitoring” reports of human rights abuses in Iran. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: “We are closely monitoring reports of numerous human rights defenders and members of minority groups, such as the Gonabadi Dervishes, who were unlawfully or arbitrarily incarcerated in Iranian regime prisons.” This announcement came after Tehran’s Revolution Court sentenced prominent Gonabadi Dervish Mostafa Abdi to over 26 years in prison for serving as an administrator of a news site dedicated to the Gonabadi dervishes. Seven other dervishes…