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. […]
February 13th, 2025 
CODIR Bulletin February 2025 is published!
CODIR has published a bulletin. The bulletin covers the following:
1000 Days After Hostage-Taking French Citizens;
What is the Islamic Republic Seeking? Two French trade unionists are languishing in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran! January 31, 2025 marked the thousandth day of the detention and imprisonment of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French teachers’ union activists. This […]
Iranian Father Arrested for Stabbing Daughter to Death
A 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by her father in northwestern Iran, according to a report by Hammihan newspaper. Kani Abdollahi died on January 26 after her father, Jafar Abdollahi, stabbed her in Mashkan village of Piranshahr district. While local […]
CODIR stands in support of the the brave, imaginative and effective struggle of Iranian Teachers for fairness and also quality of free nationwide education in Iran
The Iranian Coordination Council of Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA):
Regarding the Publication of Reports and Letters of Support from International Institutions
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
Rise in executions deeply troubling – UN Human Rights Chief
07 January 2025 GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday said he was deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran last year. At least 901 people were reportedly executed in 2024, including […]
