Human Rights
Amnesty International (To get involved with a local Amnesty chapter in America, please contact a regional office for more information.)
Committee to Protect Journalists
Human Rights and Democracy for Iran
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
International Federation for Human Rights
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
——YOU CAN HELP BRING ATTENTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS’ ISSUES IN IRAN BY SUPPORTING ONE OF THE ABOVE GROUPS AND/OR BY DOING THE FOLLOWING:.
Here are some ways you can help Committee to Protect Journalists to help journalists (please scroll to the bottom of that page).
To donate to Reporters Without Borders, which is spearheading efforts to help journalists who were forced to flee Iran, please click here. Please call for the freedom of jailed journalists and bloggers in Iran here.
Take action to urge Iranian authorities to halt executions. (The Islamic Republic currently executes more people per capita than any other country in the world and is second only to China in number of executions overall.)
Please send a letter calling for the freedom of the seven leaders of the minority Baha’i faith in Iran. They have reportedly been sentenced to 20 years in prison each.
Please sign this petition calling for the release of jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh, who has been sentenced to 6 years in prison in Iran. You can also send a postcard to the head of Iran’s judiciary.
And more…
Urge IRI to allow peaceful protest, release detained opposition figures
