Press release: CODIR welcomes postponement of execution of Ms Pakhshan Azizi

CODIR welcomes postponement of execution  The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has today welcomed news from Iran that, following global protests, the execution of Kurdish care worker, Pakhshan Azizi, has been postponed.  However, CODIR General Secretary, Gawain Little, […]

The finalised resolution adopted by the European Parliament at its full plenary on Thursday 23 January 2025

TEXTS ADOPTED P10_TA(2025)0004 Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and WrishaMoradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages European Parliament resolution of 23 January 2025 on the systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases […]

URGENT APPEAL: CODIR calls for an end to executions in Iran

The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has, along with a number of human rights organisations, opposed the death sentence handed down to Kurdish care worker, Pakhshan Azizi, in Iran.

Iran: UN experts alarmed as Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Kurdish woman activist

Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker.

Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker persecuted by the regime

The director, who has been exiled in Germany since May, releases ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ a portrayal of the Women, Life Freedom movement in Iran and how dictatorships are sustained by middle management

 

How the Mass Media Misread the Iranian Protests

JANUARY 24, 2018 by RAHMAN BOUZARI One of the largest social and political uprisings since the 1979 revolution in Iran has died down for now. However, due to the very lasting structures which ignited the first round of the protests, in […]

Right to Freedom of Expression in Iran

10 January 2018 180110/Baeidinejad H/CK/FC 6th Floor Orion House 5 Upper St Martin’s Lane Covent Garden London WC2H 9EA General Secretary Chris Keates (Ms) Telephone:020 7420 9670 H.E. Hamid Baeidinejad Iranian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Embassy of Iran in London […]

Solidarity with the People of Iran!

  Mr. Hamid Baeidinejad Ambassador  Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran 16 Princes Gate London  SW7 1PT 10 January 2018 Your Excellency, On behalf of more than 100,000 members of the University and College Union (UCU), I am writing […]

Unite the union statement in solidarity with the Iranian people to demand justice

During the nationwide protest demonstrations of 28th December – 8th January, the Iranian working people, especially the youth, took to the streets in defence of human and democratic rights, social justice and demanded long overdue economic, social and political change […]

‘Free protesters and trade unionists,’ UNISON urges Iran

General secretary Dave Prentis writes to President Hassan Rouhani in wake of arrests following recent protests Dave Prentis has called on the Iranian government to release protesters and trade unionists following recent unrest in the country. The call came in […]

IRAN: BUDGET LEAKS, UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNREST

An interview with Dr. Saeed Rahnema on Unrest in Iran. Dr. Saeed Rahnema is a retired professor of political science and public policy, and the founding director of the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University. 

With protests waning in Iran, is change still possible?

The recent uprising in Iran seems to be contained, yet the regime will not be able to kill it, writes Saeed Rahnema. How will leaders in the country respond going forward? BY:  SAEED RAHNEMA  JANUARY 9, 2018 www.opencanada.org Demonstrations in […]

Deaths in custody – call for urgent action regarding the fate of thousands detained by the Islamic Republic in the aftermath to the recent unrest (Tuesday 9 January 2018) *updates highlighted below

According to information released by the ‘Committee for the Follow-up of the Whereabouts of  those Arrested during the Nationwide Protest Demonstrations of 28 December – 8 January  2018’ –  a monitoring body that has been set up by Tehran University […]

Press release – Protesters arrested in Iran need international support

8th January 2018 For immediate use The longest standing UK-based solidarity organisation with the people of Iran, the Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today condemned the arrests of students and working class activists following recent […]

Iran: Workers demand democracy and freedom against poverty, corruption and repression

05.01.2018 – With the demonstrations starting on 28 December 2017, Iran faces widespread protests against the rising cost of living. The protests quickly spread to many cities as people raised their voices against poverty, corruption and embezzlement by officials, and […]