We regret the decision by the FCO Minister of State for the Middle East, the Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP to attend the inauguration of Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, on Saturday 5 August. The Minister’s visit to Iran comes as Tehran continues to pursue...
By Prof. Lord Alton of Liverpool One hundred guards dressed in riot gear stormed section 350 of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison on the morning of April 17 with overwhelming force and malicious intent. Though the exact motives and details of the raid...
At a conference on Thursday, December 11, in Boothroyd Room in the House of Commons, a cross party panel of over a dozen MPs from both Houses of Parliament censured the increasing state-sponsored violence targeting women in Iran under the pretext of...
By Lord Maginnis of Drumglass Several days ago a man with a neatly trimmed beard wearing a white turban, and professorial-looking rimless glasses featured prominently in Davos. Was it really Hassan Rouhani? Of course Rouhani is Iran's current...
On November 12, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF) wrote to the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, to express its disappointment over the invitation extended to Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, to speak before such a...
At a major conference in the House of Commons on Tuesday, September 15, organised by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF), MPs and Peers from all major parties of both Houses of Parliament addressed the deteriorating human...
said, “Serious atrocities and human rights abuses continue unabated during the “so-called moderate” president, Hassan Rouhani’s tenure proving that his “talk of reforms” four years ago is nothing but hollow promises to deceive the international...
by Bob Blackman MP Securing an international inquiry into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners will win over the Iranian people. Earlier in September, the UN Secretary General sent the latest report of the Special Rapporteur on Iran’s...
A panel of 30 members of Parliament and women’s rights activists from the UK and Europe urged their governments to put human rights at the forefront of Iran policy when they participated in an online conference sponsored by the British Committee for...
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, December 10, cross-party MPs from both Houses of Parliament held a conference in the House of Commons discussing the state of human rights and the current political situation in Iran, the region as...
They join the Anglo-Iranian community in urging the British government to act for the prosecution of the perpetrators of 1988 massacre On Thursday, October 20, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF) organised a conference and an...
While nuclear negotiations continue, Tehran tries to crack down on internal dissent By Lord Carlile of Berriew CBE QC People who care about human rights and democracy should be appalled by the recent news of the unprovoked raid on a Tehran prison...
Baroness Boothroyd OM: The UK Government now with its huge majority must recognise and back the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people, their organised Resistance movement NCRI, and support Maryam Rajavi’s 10-point democratic platform as the...