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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some sixty countries around the world. It addresses the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. In internal wars it documents violations by both governments and rebel groups. Human Rights Watch defends freedom of thought and expression, due process of law and equal protection of the law; it documents and denounces murders, disappearances, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, exile, censorship and other abuses of internationally recognized human rights. Human Rights Watch began in 1978 with the founding or Helsinki Watch by a group of publishers, lawyers and other activists. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.

Documents in this collection

» Iran: Free Aids Doctors

Author: Humand Rights Watch
Published: December 22, 2008
Type: Appeal/Urgent Action

» Iran: Reverse Closure of Nobel Laureate’s Rights Group

Author: Humand Rights Watch
Published: December 21, 2008
Type: Appeal/Urgent Action

The closure of DHRC is not just an attack on Shirin Ebadi and her Iranian colleagues, but on the entire international human rights community of which she is an influential and important member. The Iranian authorities should allow the center to reopen and investigate why it was raided in the first place. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch

» Iran:Crisis escalates, Faces and Cases from Ahmadinejad's Crackdown

PDF document (English, 111.62 KB)

Author: Human Rights Watch/International Campaign for human rights in Iran
Published: September 18, 2008
Type: Report

» Iran: Executions of Juvenile Offenders Rising

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: August 27, 2008
Type: Newsletter

» Iran: End Executions of Juvenile Offenders, 29 Adults and Two Juvenile Offenders Hanged

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: July 29, 2008
Type: Newsletter

» Iran: Release Detained HIV/AIDS Experts

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: July 21, 2008
Type: Newsletter

» Iran: Let Prisoners Get Needed Medical Care

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: June 5, 2008
Type: Press Release

» Open letter to President Ahmadinejad on Situation of Baha'i Detainees

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: June 1, 2008
Type: Letter

» Iran: Detained Students May Face Torture

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: April 10, 2008
Type: Newsletter

» Iran: Private Homes Raided for "Immorality"

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: March 28, 2008
Type: Newsletter

» "You Can Detain Anyone for Anything" : Iran's Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism

PDF document (English, 306.25 KB)
PDF document (Farsi, 468.82 KB)

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: January 8, 2008
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2007

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: January 2008
Type: Report

» Iran: Allow Baha’i Students Access to Higher Education

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: September 20, 2007
Type: Press Release

» Iran: Jailed Students Abused to Obtain Forced Confessions

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: July 27, 2007
Type: Press Release

source: Human Rights Watch

» Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: May 17, 2007
Type: Press Release

Iran’s arbitrary arrests of thousands of men and women in recent weeks under the banner of “countering immoral behavior” threaten basic rights to privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of all those detained as part of this campaign, including more than 80 people seized in a raid on a private gathering in the city of Esfahan on May 10, 2007.

Source: Human Rights Watch

» Iran: Women on Trial for Peaceful Demonstration

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: February 27, 2007
Type: Press Release

Source : Human Rights Watch

» Denying the Right to Education

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: October 1, 2006
Type: Report

» IRAN, POLICE ASSAULT WOMEN RIGHTS' DEMONSTRATORS

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: June 15, 2006
Type: Press Release

In its June 15th, press release, Human Rights Watch blamed the Iranian government for its ".. utter contempt its utter contempt for basic freedoms like the right to peaceful assembly. The authorities should free those arrested at once and find out who’s behind the police violence. "

» Iran: Scores Arrested in Anti-Baha’i Campaign

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: June 6, 2006
Type: Press Release

In the present press release, Human Rights Watch protests against the arrest of 45 Iranian citizens of Baha'i confession:“Arresting people solely on the basis of their religious faith is a flagrant violation of freedom of belief and the freedom to practice a religion of one’s choice.”

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2005

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: January 18, 2006
Type: Report

» Ministers of Murder: Iran’s New Security Cabinet

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: December 1, 2005
Type: Report

» Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: November 22, 2005
Type: Newsletter

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2004

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2005
Type: Report

» LIKE THE DEAD IN THEIR COFFINS, TORTURE, DETENTION, AND THE CRUSHING OF DISSENT IN IRAN

PDF document (English, 403.97 KB)

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: June 7, 2004
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2002

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2003
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2001

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2002
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 2000

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2001
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 1999

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2000
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 1998

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1999
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 1997

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1998
Type: Report

» IRAN, POWER VERSUS CHOICE

Author: Elaheh Hicks
Published: March 1996
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 1996

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1996
Type: Report

» IRAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS, 1995

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1995
Type: Report

» Iran: Human Rights Developments, 1994

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1994
Type: Report

» GUARDIANS OF THOUGHT, LIMITS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN IRAN

Author: Sarvenaz Bahar
Published: August 1, 1993
Type: Report

In this report, which covers primarily the period 1989-1993, Middle east Watch examines the various mechanisms of state control of expression and presents more than sixty individual cases (and one group case involving 162 persons) of Iranian writers, filmmakers, journalists and intellectuals who have been imprisoned, prosecuted or otherwise punished for the content of their work or whose work has been banned and censored. The breadth of censorship goes well beyond the cases examined here; these only serve to illustrate tactics of direct and often violent pressure by vigilante groups, of vilification campaigns, of formal censorship, and of the power play between different pressure groups within the ruling elite. The report's focus in on artistic and journalistic expression, but we also include material on some well-known cases of suppressed political expression, Also included are general assessments of the academic environment and Iranian cultural heritage.

» IRAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS, 1993

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1993
Type: Report

» IRAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS, 1992

Author: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1992
Type: Report

» IRAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS, 1990

Author: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Published: 1990
Type: Report