Source:

Official Homepage: Nehzat e Azadi ye Iran ("Official Homepage: Nehzat e Azadi ye Iran (only in Farsi)") [ID 8378]

Document(s): Official Homepage: Nehzat e Azadi ye Iran (only in Farsi)

08.2005 - Source: Freedom House

Political parties ("Freedom in the World 2005") [#41317],  [ID 8375]

"[...]The constitution permits the establishment of political parties, professional syndicates, and other civic organizations, provided they do not violate the principles of “freedom, sovereignty and national unity” or question the Islamic basis of the republic. In 2002, the 44-year-old Iran Freedom Movement was banned on such grounds and 33 of its leading members imprisoned. In 2004, at least four prominent human rights activists were prevented by the authorities from traveling abroad.[...]"

Document(s): Open document

28.02.2005 - Source: US Department of State

Party leader imprisoned ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2004") [#29525],  [ID 8376]

"[...]In November, local press reported that after an early October trial, a Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, leader of the Iranian liberal nationalist Freedom Movement opposition party, to an unspecified but long-term imprisonment, based on charges of actions against national security, possessing unauthorized weapons, insulting the supreme leader and government officials, and propagating against the system through actions benefiting opposition groups. [...]"

Document(s): Open document

11.2001 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

00.11.2001 – ACCORD: After death of party founder Bazargan in 1995 the party was not permitted to carry out its activities ("7th European Country of Origin Information Seminar Berlin, 11 - 12 June 2001: Final Report - Iran") [#7661],  [ID 8377]

"The only existing opposition party currently in Iran is the Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI, Nehzat-e Azadi). This party, founded in 1961 by former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, had been tolerated in Iran but never formally accepted. The party had been openly criticizing Iranian domestic and foreign policies. After Bazargan’s death in 1995 the party was not permitted to carry out its activities any longer. In February 1998 the then Minister of the Interior Abdullah Nouri, announced that the party was illegal while at the same time hinting that the application would be considered if the party were to register under another name."

Document(s): cois2001-irn.pdf