CODIR Bulletin Summer 2025 is published!
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
CODIR Bulletin Spring 2025 is published!
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
Israel must stop bombing Iran. De-escalation now
CND condemns Israel’s illegal attack on Iran today, which is a violation of international law. We have repeatedly warned that ongoing military threats by US and Israel posed very serious dangers to the region. Now Israel has launched multiple attacks […]
CODIR condemns unilateral Israeli attack upon Iran
13th June 2025 Press release For immediate use The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has condemned as outrageous the Israeli military attack upon Iran when talks with the United States were ongoing and due to enter […]
CODIR calls for the release of two French trade unionists imprisoned in Iran!
French Trade Unionists Imprisoned in Iran: A Case of “Hostage Diplomacy” Since May 2022, two French trade unionists, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, have been arbitrarily imprisoned in Iran, accused by the Islamic Republic authorities of espionage and fomenting unrest. […]
May 19th, 2024 
‘I am ready to return whenever they say’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran
Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime Iran’s Qarchak jail has been called many things: […]
Director Mohammad Rasoulof flees Iran ahead of Cannes premiere
CANNES (Reuters) – Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging. In a statement dated Sunday, Rasoulof said he […]
Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere
Story by JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. “I arrived […]
NEU General Secretary calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran to save musician Toomaj Salehi from execution!
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran By email: contact@leader.ir 30 April 2024 Your Excellency, Tomaj Salehi I write as General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), the largest education trade union […]
Who is Toomaj Salehi? Coldplay and Sting call for release of Iranian rapper sentenced to death
About 100 figures in music, culture and human rights activism have signed a statement calling for the release of the Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was sentenced to death in Iran after protesting in support of women’s rights. The statement calling for Salehi’s release was […]
َCODIR action is now live – Iranian Government- quash Toomaj Salehi death sentence now!
Please participate in the action now by clicking to the following websites: Please click on this link: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/quash-toomaj-salehi-death-sentence-now/ or this short link: https://bit.ly/SaveToomajSelehi You can also use the following QR Code.
Solidarity organisation condemns cultural terrorism in Iran
Press release For immediate use 30th April 2024 The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has called the death sentence imposed upon Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi, an act of cultural terrorism by the Iranian regime. Calling for […]
Iranian community protests in London over death sentence for popular rapper
Story by Harry Stedman, PA Demonstrators have protested in central London against a death sentence given to a popular rapper in Iran. Members of the Iranian community wore masks depicting the face of Toomaj Salehi and erected a mock gallows outside […]
Unprecedented Crackdown on Women Intensifies in Iran
Widespread security force’s crackdown on women amidst economic hardship and public discontent CODIR calls for urgent solidarity action with women in Iran! Confirmed reports from Iran tell of a calculated attempt by the regime to drive the courageous women and […]
Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown
Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say country’s hijab rules have been brutally enforced since the country’s drone strikes on Israel on 13 April. A […]
