Human rights Quote by Shirin Ebadi

As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and…

— Nazanin Boniadi

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

— Howard Berman

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming…

— Moshe Katsav

The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of…

— Shirin Ebadi

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in…

— Hassan Rouhani

Relations between the United States and Iran can improve but will not get better so long as innocent Americans are held hostage.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to speak their…

— Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

— Morgan Ortagus

Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in…

— Steve Inskeep

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

— Nazanin Boniadi

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free…

— Shirin Ebadi

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of…

— Elliott Abrams