The International Campaign for Human Rights -  Another wave of summonses and arrests of journalists has taken place in Iran, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on February 5. In a statement published by Fars News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Intelligence Ministry stated that the journalists were arrested for their contact with the BBC and that the arrests, which began January 26, will continue.

The Guardian - Crackdown on reformist media ahead of June election seen as attempt to prevent repeat of Green movement uprising in 2009

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani said that Judge Salavati plans on transferring her husband to Ghezel Hessar Prison. Marzieh Rahimi told the Campaign that the letters Ghadyani has been writing in prison may be the reason for the transfer.

FIDH - Karim Lahidji, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and president of the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), said today:

Persianbanoo - While three of the men accused of Kahrizak detention center crimes enjoy special treatment (three Judges were found to be the main culprits in the torture deaths of prisoners at Kahrizak by the Parliament, but have not as yet been put on trial for their crimes), the person who exposed the crimes at Kahrizak, journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian, is denied furlough and is on month 8 of fasting.

Radio Zamaneh - Iranian political prisoners have called on the head of Evin Prison to remove the obstacles that restrict the treatment of ailing prisoners.

HRANA News Agency – Death sentence of political prisoner, Behrouz Alkhani, was confirmed in Supreme Court and he is close to execution.

HRANA News Agency – reconsideration of Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, political prisoner who is sentenced to death, was failed and he is in danger of imminent execution.

BBC - The European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been collected on behalf of the jailed Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh. It comes at a time of what many campaigners say is unprecedented pressure on the legal profession in Iran, reports BBC Persian's Fariba Sahraei.

Radio Zamaneh - Iranian children’s rights activist Ali Akbar Esmailpour has spoken out against the lack of close supervision of child labour in Iran.

RFE/RL - Concern is growing over the health of Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi after opposition sources reported that both men were hospitalized for several hours and underwent medical tests on November 19.

Roozonline - The publication of the latest report by Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, caused a stir in Iran. In his report, Ahmad Shaheed lambasted the Iranian government for the increasing number of executions, the passage and implication of Islamic penal law, imprisonment of journalists and political activists, and deepening ethnic and religious discrimination. In response, Islamic Republic officials, most notably the heads of the legislative and judicial branches, denounced the report by accusing it of being false and a political dance move. But what Ahmad Shaheed documented as indisputable violations of human rights are the real outcomes of a political philosophy that is theorized and implemented in Iran by the Larijani brothers, the contours of which have not often been analyzed by human rights activists. This short article intends to shed light on that philosophy.

Radio Zamaneh - Vahid Asghari, a jailed Iranian accused of “launching pornographic and anti-Islam websites”, has written two letters to the Iranian judiciary to file a complaint against Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, accusing his jailers of subjecting him to physical and mental torture.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - In the seven months since Iranian-American Amir Hekmati’s death sentence was overturned in Tehran, Iranian officials have ignored his family’s requests for information and has failed to schedule his retrial. Since his arrest, Hekmati’s father has been diagnosed with an aggressive and potentially fatal brain cancer and has been unable to travel to Iran to visit his son.

Radio Zamaneh - Detained Iranian scholar Ahmad Ghabel is reportedly in very poor health as a result of a brain tumour.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Human rights lawyer and activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who was under pressure to provide televised confessions against the Defenders of Human Rights Center, commenced his nine-year prison sentence at Evin Prison on Saturday, September 29.

Banooyesabz - On the eve of World Teacher’s Day [October 5th, 2012], as countries across the globe prepare for ceremonies in appreciation of our honorable and dedicated teachers, a large number of innocent teachers with an extensive history of service in Iran’s education sector remain behind bars because they had the courage to demand that their civil rights be upheld.  Honorable Iranian teachers who have dedicated their lives to servicing the educational needs of remote and deprived regions in Iran have now been banned from the teaching profession and deprived of all their benefits and rights.

Freedom Messenger - According to reports received from “Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran” a few hours of interrogation and physical torture of political prisoner Hadi Abedi Bakhoda from the late ’60s occurred in order for him to make a televised confession.

Persianbanoo - Hossein Ronaghi Malki, one of the 35 arrested earthquake volunteer aid workers in East Azarbaijan, is in dire condition, due to kidney hemorrhaging as a result of the beatings he suffered during his arrest.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Mohammad Nazari, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, has sewn his lips shut and embarked on a hunger strike since August 28, 2012, to protest the judicial authorities’ disregard for his request for release.