U.S. Department of state
 
Human Rights Report: Iran*

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
 
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
 
February 25, 2009
 ...
  On December 18, for the sixth consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on Iran expressing "deep concern at ongoing systematic violations of human rights."
 

FIDH
 
International Federation for human rights
 

Human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran  
 
Briefing note - February 2009
 
 The human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained particularly dire throughout 2008 and during the first two months of 2009, confirming the pattern of widespread and systematic violations in the country. This poor record is confirmed in all fields, in particular the situation of human rights defenders and other peaceful activists, the repression against minorities and the use of the death penalty.

(April, 1, 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Judiciary to immediately release five members of the Al-Yasin Society who have been detained without explanation or justification during the past few months.
The detainees are Peyman Fatahi, Nazi Hesami, Morteza Rasoolian, Mitra Haji Najafi, and Aliyar Nik-Farman. They are reportedly held in section 209 of Evin prison, which is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry.

By ROXANA SABERI, Washington Post
 May 13, 2010

Shortly after Iran announced that it had executed five Kurdish political activists on Sunday, I received an e-mail from a human-rights campaigner in Tehran who knew one of them, asking me to spread the word about the hangings. "We are truly helpless," she wrote, "and we feel lost."