|  Once more a human being is in imminent danger of execution in Iran. The chilling news is no more a surprise as the country is going through a phase when civilians may receive a death sentence over any charge, no matter how unfounded or trivial it is. Numbers are more telling of the human rights catastrophe that is happening in the country: the year 2010 is about to end with 200 recorded cases of execution1.  | | | | Amnesty International reported in a statement that the execution of Habibollah Latifi, a male member of the Kurdish minority in Iran, has been scheduled for 26 December, according to his lawyer. He was sentenced to death following an unfair trial.
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| The news of the sentence handed down by the courts of the theocratic regime to Mr. Jafar Panahi was indeed distressing: Six years of imprisonment in the regime's notorious prisons and a 20-year ban from practicing his art.What was his crime? No one seems to be able to explain except that he is an outspoken opponent of the regime. This unjust sentence will undoubtedly be appealed.
| | | | The news of Nasrin Sotoudeh's courageous battle, from inside the walls of the notorious prison of the theocratic regime, against our oppressors reminds us that in the end no tyrant can stand in the way of a people yearning to be free. Nasrin Sotoudeh is a human rights lawyer and now political prisoner in Iran. The regime today is so fearful of it's citizenry that no activist, no journalist, no student, no blogger, in short, no one is safe. And as they grow desperate, they grow even more vicious.
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| By now, we all are aware of the objective facts on the ground in Iran when it comes to political dissidents. We have read about the screams of Nasrin Sotoudeh echoing through the women’s ward in Evin Prison as she was subjected to torture by the regime. We have wept over the battered and broken body of young Mohsen Beikvand, whose words and flesh testified to his unspeakable tortures in Rajaei Shahr prison in the months prior to his arranged murder in prison.
| | | |  Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, a veteran activist for human rights in Iran. In February 2010 the detention order for imprisoned political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi was extended for an unknown length of time by Tehran’s court. In September 2010 Heshmatollah Tabarzadi was sentenced to 9 years in prison with recieving 79 lashes as part of his punishment.In October 2009 Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, leader of the banned Democratic Front of Iranian People (DFIP), was relased from prison after serving more than six months in solitary confinement. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi was arrested at April 17 2009 by special units of the Islamic Revolution’s Guards after he had criticised Iran’s regime and called for a revision of Iran’s constitution.
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| | “Starting in August 1988, just after the end of the Iran/Iraq war, and continuing until shortly before the 10th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in February 1989, the Iranian authorities carried out massive wave of summary executions of political prisoners – the largest since those carried out in the first and second year after the Iranian revolution in 1979. In all between 4,500 and 5,000 prisoners are believed to have been killed, including women. It remains one of the worst human rights violations committed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic.” states Amnesty International in its report “From protest to prison: Iran one year after the election”, released June 9th, 2010. | | | | Vancouver’s Iranian-Canadian community has joined in the international chorus calling for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s immediate release from Tabriz Prison in Iran. Condemned to be executed by stoning in 2006 for engaging in adultery, the 41-year-old Iranian Azeri mother of two had her original sentence commuted earlier this month due to intense international pressure.
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| | urge the Government of Canada to strongly condemn systemic human rights violations by the theocratic regime in Iran, and to lead international efforts in adopting urgent measures to end the practice of arbitrary arrests, imprisonments, gender and religious discriminations, torture, rape, stoning, public executions, and other shameful crimes against humanity. | | | | Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this Sunday October 11 which falls one day after the International Day Against Execution. Some reports say that they may be executed tomorrow. Another juvenile,Safar Angooti is scheduled to be executed on October 21st. The Supreme Court is also deciding the fate of another minor on death row, Ali Mahin Torabi. This sad news is worrying the families of these youngsters, NGO's and human rights activists internationally.
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| The Islamic Republic of Iran will hang tomorrow early in the morning at 6. 30, Iranian time, fourteen young Baluch on the fabricated charges of corrupting the earth and fighting God in a public park to stage a show for exhibiting its credentials as the worst killer in the Iranian history. The Iranian Fars News Agency reported that the relatives of the victims have been invited to go and watch the show of hanging. It's not clear who the victims are as the full identities of the men who are supposed to be hanged have not been yet exposed to the public. Abdul Hamid Rigi, the older brother of Abdul Malik Rigi, the leader of People's Resistance Movement of Iran, Jondollah, is among them.
| | | | London, 8-6-09--Abdol Hamid Rigi, the brother of Abdol Malik Rigi, the leader of People's Resistance Movement of Iran, Jondolla, was hanged in Zahedan on Saturday, 6 June 09 after he was extradited from Pakistan to Iran, The semi-official Fars News Agency reported.The Pakistani government was warned by many human rights organization that Abdol Hamid, would be executed if he was returned to Iran but in spite of all the warnings, the Pakistani government extradited him with few other Baluch. Reza Qaladarzahi, who was also extradited by Pakistan to Iran, was hanged with Rigi.
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| ZAHEDAN, Iran, May 30 (UPI) -- Three men already jailed for other attacks were executed Saturday for planning this week's deadly suicide bombing at an Iranian mosque, officials in Tehran say.The official Iranian Republic News Agency IRNA said the men were hanged Saturday morning near the site of the Thursday mosque attack in the predominantly Sunni Arab southeastern Iran city of Zahedan. Nineteen people died when a bomber infiltrated the Shiite facility and blew himself up, the BBC reported.
| | | |  Although his lawyer Mr. Mohammad Mostafaei has not receive official notice of the execution date, he was informed by Mohammadreza’s father that he is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday May 27th at Adelabad prison in Shiraz where he has been imprisoned for the last 4 years.
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| TEHRAN (AFP) — An Iranian man who was sentenced to death by stoning after he was found guilty of having illicit relations with a teenage girl has been hanged, a newspaper reported on Saturday.Abdullah Fareivar, a 50-year-old music teacher, was hanged on Thursday in a prison in the northern town of Sari, the Etemad Melli newspaper said.It said Fareivar was sentenced to death despite his family saying his relations with the 17-year-old girl were not illicit as he had entered into a contract marriage with her and that his first wife was aware of it.
| | | | On the 21st of December 2008, the secret police entered the headquarters of the centre of the Defenders of Human Rights, the only non-governmental organisation for human rights and a member of the FIDH in Iran, by force and without legal warrant and, sealed the centre. This letter is written in Persian, English, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Russian.
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| Hood Yazerlou, student of Industrial management of Massoomein University of the religious city of Quom, who was arbitrarily arrested on 24 May 2008, for no clarified reason, has been transferred to solitary confinement since 7 December in 209 section of Evin prison and is under immense pressure.
| | | | “We stand resolute in our demand to know the whole truth about these crimes against humanity and to have a competent court investigate them. … These crimes are still an open wound in the collective conscience of the Iranian society. And each one of us feels responsible to press for justice.”
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|  I was born in a country where I am not allowed to sing or perform./I was born in a country where I am not allowed to wear what I want./I was born in a country where I would be killed for my religious beliefs./I was born in a country where I would be tortured for advocating democracy./I was born in a country where, as a woman, my life is considered worth half of a mans.I was born in Iran.
| | | | | Teacher Farzad Kamangar, a member of the Kurdish ethnic group, has been sentenced to death on charges of moharebe, or ‘enmity against God’, a charge levelled against those accused of taking up arms against the state. Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili may also be facing execution. | |
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| | Iran violently suppresses its opposition and critics, but there are those whose struggle is still aflame.Rain water has accumulated in front of the Parliament in Eidsvolls plass. Kianoosh Sanjari is holding a microphone in his Norwegian gloved hands, while covering himself with un umbrella next to a bench.Little after his arrival to Norway he managed to gather Iranians with different political tendencies in front of the Parliament. Leaders of these groups do not enjoy a favorable relation with each other. But 2008 began with a wave of executions and widespread arrests of students and this has been a factor to make the stand with each other on a common cause; to express defiance over the increase of suppression in Iran. | | | | | Given the limits on freedom of research and the prevalence of terror and intimidation within Iran, it is small wonder that so much Western commentary on the country is framed by the propaganda purposes of a totalitarian regime. Yet Iran watchers can and should do better. | |
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| | | | | Homa Arjomand calls a Press Conference at Queen's Park, Toronto, on Monday July 30th, 2007 at 11:00 AM. In a press statement released by Opposition Leader John Tory on July 24,07, it stated, “Taxpayers should fund Islamic, Hindu, Jewish and other faith-based schools just like public and Catholic ones”. “Tory and his party have started a dangerous game, We, all concerned citizen and progressive forces will defeat John Tory as we did it in the struggle against faith based arbitration” said Ms. Arjomand | |
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you please give me a tranquilizer please? I can't think clearly. I am angry,I'm confused.
| | | | | The difference between some one like Haleh Esfandiari and I, Sheema Kalbasi, is that I see the Iranian regime as a group of people who have committed and continue to commit horrendous crimes against humanity. People like Dr. Esfandiari -- who I hope will return to the U.S. safe and sound especially since Keyhan has accused her of apostasy-- do support a dialogue with the Iranian regime. I like to know why Ms. Esfandiari's husband is devastated over his wife's arrest and why he doesn't try to engage in a dialogue with the Iranian regime? Why Shaul Bakhash goes on BBC to confirm that Esfandiari is still a Muslim? After all Ms. Esfandiari and people like her insist on engaging in a dialogue with the Iranian regime. | |
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| | On Sunday, May 20, Amnesty International joined forces with the SaveDelara campaign by putting its Human Rights Bus into action in Warsaw, Poland, where human rights activists joined SaveDelara campaign's Krzysztof Pacyński in a protest outside the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in opposition to Delara Darabi's impending execution. | | | | | Thousands people are executed in Iran, by 27 years of ruling of Islamic Republic of Iran. Execution is transported form closed jail to streets, city squares and stadiums in the public in front of people eyes. The Cranes are used for killing people rather than use it for development. Execution method is promoted from Execution in the close place in the jail to hanging many people in public concurrent. It is so shameful, the Stoning as disgusting method of execution is order in the courts since now. Execution commandment has no age range, include Children, olds, and pregnant women so. | |
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In less than 45 minutes, the Human Rights Day, will be shining for 24 hours, here. I don't know whether you will be able to breath it's oxigen in the individual cell which you are being held in, or feel it's radiations under the tortures you are being putten through. No... You are right, the Human Rights Day won't shine in political prisons, it won't shine to the people who pay for these rights with their bloods, and it certainly won't shine for the ones who died under inhumane whiplashes...
| | | | On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she reportedly admitted fatally stabbing one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by the Supreme Court.
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| | According to the Islamic Constitution of Iran, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians have certain limited rights and all other non-Muslims have no rights at all. The Baha’i religion, the largest non-Muslim religion in Iran is considered illegal and according to Iranian laws, even the killers of Bahaii individuals cannot be prosecuted. Hundreds of Baha’is have been officially executed in Iran and many others have been brutally and ritually murdered | | | |  Student activist and blogger Kianoosh Sanjari was arrested on 7 October whilst reporting on clashes between security forces and supporters of Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi. Kianoosh Sanjari is being held incommunicado at an unknown location and Amnesty International fears that he may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment | |
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| | | | | On Saturday August 19th, 10s of Iranians came together on 6125 Young Street to raise awareness about Ahmad Batebi’s current situation in the notorious Evin Prison. Lion and Sun flags adorned the surrounding area, as participants held up pictures of Ahmad Batebi with the slogan “ NOT GUILTY” Pamphlets were also handed out to passer-by’s which explained who Ahmad Batebi is and his current situation in prison. | |
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Today 15/5/85 (6 August 2006) is the ninth day of the arrest and hunger strike of Ahmad Batebi. As an independent physician who has been in charge of Ahmad Batebi's health outside of prison, I feel it necessary to note some points about his physical condition: 1- As a result of disk herniation (L4 & L5) due to a blow, Ahmad Batebi is in need of ongoing physiotherapy, medication and further investigation for an operation. If lack of treatment and hunger strike continue, he will face complete physical and sensory paralysis in the lower body. | | | |  Ahmad Batebi in connection with peaceful student demonstrations in July 1999,yesterday the 29 of July was violently arrested in his home and taken a way to an unknown area. They searched his home and took away his private documents which put’s Mr Batebi´s life in even greater danger. Last year, after several years of external struggle by politicians outside the country and human rights organisation, Mr Batebi, after having served half of his prison punishment was awarded one year’s conditional furlough which was now broken by this illegal and inhuman arrest.
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| This letter is Being forwarded to you by the wife of Ahmad Batebi a student arrested during the student uprising of 1999 and condemned to the capital punishment by the Islamic Revolutionary Courts a sentence commuted to 15 years of imprisonment.
| | | | | The police and information forces of the lawless and bullying Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran put the naked body of my son in a station wagon (against all norms) and these thugs threatened that if we held a memorial service for him, they would return the body to Tehran to be buried in an undisclosed location. We were additionally threatened that if we did not agree with these conditions, they wouldn’t release his imprisoned bother, Mr. Manouchehr Mohammadi, to attend the ceremony. Mr. Saeed Ashrafpour, the uncle of Akbar, was present while the body was being washed and buried. | |
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| | The Hague, August 7th 2006 - Negotiations between the Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and the Iranian asylum seeker Ali Anoushei, have entered a decisive, critical phase. Anoushei has been on hunger strike near the Dutch Parliament building for 57 days. During talks 4 days ago, the IND offered him a review of his recently rejected asylum request, promising his case the utmost in care and consideration. | | | | We are writing to inform you that yet another innocent human being has died in Iran under the Islamic Republic╝s watch. His crime was to practice his right to assemble, as stated in the Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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|  Ahmad Batebi in connection with peaceful student demonstrations in July 1999,yesterday the 29 of July was violently arrested in his home and taken a way to an unknown area. They searched his home and took away his private documents which put’s Mr Batebi´s life in even greater danger. Last year, after several years of external struggle by politicians outside the country and human rights organisation, Mr Batebi, after having served half of his prison punishment was awarded one year’s conditional furlough which was now broken by this illegal and inhuman arrest.
| | | |  We, the undersigned, who are fighting for achieving democracy in our country, would like to have your attention for the following serious matter: Recently, you accepted Mr. Saeed Mortazavi (a government prosecutor widely known to have sanctioned the torture and the execution of political prisoners)as a part of Iranian delegation to the UN's new Human Rights Council. Saeed Mortazavi is responsible for the custody and interrogation of many prominent Iranian political prisoners.Among them the canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi of Montreal, who died while in prison in Iran, of wounds suffered at the hands of her jailers. | |
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| | While hundreds of Iranians around the world participated in the three-day hunger strike called by prominent investigative journalist Akbar Ganji, and called for the release of Ramin Jahanbegloo, Akbar Mousavi Khoeini and Mansour Osanloo, hard-line Resalat daily announced that a film showing Ramin Jahanbegloo’s confessions was ready for airing. | | | | I am writing to bring to your attention, That Mr. Keyvan Rafiee the Iranian Human Rights activist has been arrested on charge of dissemination of news about the situation of Students Movement and political prisoners in Iran.
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| | The human rights situation in Iran continues to deteriorate. Petitions and protests to end the abuses have gone unanswered. During the past year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government has sought to monopolize power in Iran by silencing and suffocating all independent and dissenting voices. | | | | | Well the news was beyond belief, it was like putting salt on the wounds of children who have lost their mothers and fathers, good men and women beaten to death at the hands of or by the orders of Iran's notorious prosecutor-general, Saeed Mortezavi. Words fail me, it was just a slap on the face of decency. It is as if Dr. Josef Mengele led a delegation of children's Rights to the UN. This was the shameful news : | |
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| | | |  British pop duo the Pet Shop Boys have been releasing albums for 25 years now. Their latest - Fundamental - according to the liner notes, is "Dedicated to Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni". These two Iranian teenagers gained international attention when heart-breaking photographs of their execution were published all over the Internet.
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|  Warmest greetings to my dear compatriots in Iran and other countries!My name is Valiollah Feiz Mahdavi. I was born on 5/11/1358. In Mehr 1380 I was arrested by the Intelligence Ministry agents and charged with undermining national security and attempting to join the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Iraq. They kept me in solitary confinement for 546 days, during which time I was interrogated and subjected to harshest physical and psychological tortures. I was kept in a little, dimly lit cell; and when moved for any purpose I was shackled, cuffed and blindfolded. | | | | Soudabeh Ardavan’s book of illustrations about torture in Iranian prisons entitled Yaadnegaarehaaye Zendaan, (Reminiscences of Prison Years) published in Sweden is one that is worth revisiting. Arrested in 1981, at the peak of crackdown on leftist and liberal organizations , she spent the years of 1981-1989 in the infamous Evin, Ghessel Hessar, and Gohar Dasht prisons; these years were the bleakest in the history of human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic.
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|  When Nazanin Afshin-Jam won Miss World Canada, I read about it in a Persian language weekly. Of course, I was proud. The success of any Iranian makes me proud, but I didn’t glean on it too much at the time. In the back of my mind, I probably thought to myself, here is another pretty Iranian girl whose cosmetics bag is probably more precious to her than the destiny of her country.
| | | | As you know, the last time the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for its systematic violations of human rights, was in 2001. Since then practically each year the European Union, the United States of America and Canada have tried to bring about a new condemnation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but without success. This failure is mainly due to the structure of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which include members who have themselves been accused of committing human rights violations.
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| | The first meaning of conscience is man’s realization and understanding of his nature and life. But here I would like to talk about the other meaning, i.e. the freedom of thought, belief and choice of religion, which has been provided in article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The provision specifically says that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.” | | | | | Once again executions in Iranian prisons are making headlines. Both Khaled Hardani, and two other suspects in Ahvaz bombings are sentenced to death. Hojat Zamani too was executed which his relatives confirmed. Eighteen-year-old Nazanin from the Hormozgan newspaper who was recently arrested over the publication of an article too is awaiting her death sentence. | |
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| | Help Save Saeed Masouri I am Mohsen Masouri, Saeed Masouri's uncle. The Islamic Republic of Iran is persecuting my nephew Saeed because of his beliefs, not his actions. History: In January of 2001, Saeed Masouri was arrested in Dezful, Iran, for having expressed opinions that support human rights and fundamental freedoms for the people of his country. | | | | Ali was a 17-year-old killed after allegedly sympathizing with Iranian opposition groups. Ozra, a married woman, was killed after a charge of adultery. And Bahram, age 50, was executed for being a member of the Baha'i faith.
To the theocracy that replaced Iran's monarchy after the 1979 Islamic revolution, these three and thousands more were criminals who deserved to die. To Roya and Ladan Boroumand, they were victims of a justice system without due process, and a crucial part of their homeland's history that they feel obliged to expose.
On Friday, the two sisters unveiled what is believed to be the largest database dedicated to those executed under the Islamic regime. It is the result of years of examining human rights reports, media accounts, memoirs and other records. Of the more than 9,400 cases catalogued, one has a special place in the sisters' hearts: that of their father, Abdorrahman Boroumand, whose leadership in resistance movements is believed to have led to his murder. | |
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| All it would have taken for Dhabihu'llah Mahrami to end his decadelong imprisonment in an Iranian jail was the renunciation of his faith.
But on repeated occasions, Mahrami, a follower of the Baha'i faith, Iran's largest religious minority, refused.
His death of unknown causes last month in a government jail where he had been held on charges of abandoning Islam brought international attention to the ongoing struggle Baha'is have faced in Iran since the birth of their religion about 150 years ago. | | | |  Regarding the suppress of political prisoners in Iran, I beg to inform you, Behrouz Javid Tehrani And Behnam Shaghaghi tow political prisoners have been on hunger strike since November/15/05. They want to be separated from murderess and drug smugglers in Rajaee prison in Karj and return to political prisoners section in Evin prison.
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|  Akbar Ganji, the Iranian jailed writer and journalist who has been in solitary confinement for many months now faces another predicament: no one can find a solution to this entangled case. One more time, a group of political activists have sent yet-another letter to the head of Iran’s Judiciary to impartially review his case. Political observers believe that there is no strong will among Iranian officials to intervene in Ganji’s case and resolve the issue. In her latest interviews, Ganji’s wife has warned about the dangerous game that lower level judiciary officials are playing with her husband, which will bring about a high price for the country.
| | | |  When I called Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel Peace prize winner in 2004, and introduced myself to be from Rooz web blog, I felt she responded quicker that even I expected. She was very calm during the interview and spoke gently of the current government and the reformers. When I asked her what she thought of Mohammad Khatami’s comments when she won the Nobel Prize …. . Here are the excerpts.Rooz ®: How do you analyze the current international pressure on Iran? Shirin Ebadi (SE): In order to neutralize this pressure, the government should adopt domestic and international policies that are in harmony with well-recognized international standards. A country that attracts people’s trust nationally and internationally and is able to prove to the world that it has no plans to attack other countries will be better received by the international community. | |
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Eye-witnesses said the judge was involved in a quarrel with three young men at a petrol station in the town last April. He used a tear gas spray to fend off the young men and, when the dispute continued, pulled out his handgun and shot one of the young men in the head at point blank. The man died instantly. | | | | | In the mankind long history, you know surely better than me, that there have been some events that its, rolls go far beyond to its, historical era and geographical boundaries. These events have, rightly, been named epoch making events. The peaceful transition from apartheid system to a new democratic co-existent political system in Southafrica, is undoubtedly one of such historical events and all of these thanks to your roll and your leadership. Your historical standpoint, place and your personality allow people as me to write you, beg you with relaxation, because the whole world love you . | |
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a letter to Iran's president Friday seeking the release of a jailed investigative reporter who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, a U.N. official said.
The U.N. spokesman's office confirmed that Annan had sent a letter to Iran about Ganji, but would not disclose the document's contents until it is delivered. | | | | It has been a year since the International Campaign against Sharia Court in Canada, called for a day of protest, nationally and internationally, against faith based courts in Ontario. The protestors wanted the Ontario to remove family law from the 1991 Arbitration Act.
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We are a group of Iranian filmmakers, journalists and artists who believes you „The Green Party Germany“ are responsible in Akbar Gandji`s hunger strike that has now exceeds 55 days. You as a political party have the authority to take concrete actions for his freedom. One such action could be to instruct your ambassador in Iran to personally meet with Mr Ganji and ask for his unconditional freedom officially.
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| | The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.The Observatory has been informed by the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (Ligue iranienne de défense des droits de lâ?THomme - LDDHI) that Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani, lawyer at the Bar of Tehran, was arrested on July 30, 2005. | | | | 2000 days in prison for expressing his opinion, in accordance with the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, it has now been 53 days since Akbar Ganji started his hunger strike. His physical condition is critical and as it is deteriorating by the minute, an excruciatingly painful time is passing by. There is serious concern about his life.
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Jessica Siavoshy, a Teaching Assistant and her Iranian husband a graduate of London University are campaigning to stay in the U.K. Although they have been married for over two years the Home Office refuse to grant permission for Hossein to stay or work in the U.K. They plan to send him back to Iran where he could face imprisonment or worse for being present at a pro-democratic demonstration.
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Iranian Embassy, 16 Prince's Gate, London SW7 (near Royal Albert Hall).
Iranian Ambassador details:
info@iran-embassy.org.uk
Tel: 020 7225 3000 Fax: 020 7589 4440
Address: Iranian Ambassador, Embassy of Iran 16 Prince’s Gate London SW7 1PT
The Iranian government is apparently hunting more gay teens, after publicly executing two boys for having sex with each other last week.
According to campaigners, police officials are searching for three boys connected with the “crimes” of Mahmoud Asgari (16) and Ayaz Marhoni (18), who were hanged last week.
An international protest is being urged in response to the hangings, which were conducted in accordance with the ultra conservative Sharia law. | | | | | An Iranian court held a new appeal hearing on Monday over the murder in custody two years ago of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi that has strained ties with Ottawa. | |
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Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2003
Venue : Imperial College, London Date : 13/7/2005
| | | | | We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the condition of Dr. Hossein Ghazian, an Iranian sociologist, public opinion expert, and the director of Ayandeh Research Institute, who is held in Evin Prison since October 30, 2002. Dr. Ghazian was tried and charged with the alleged “crime” of “cooperating with a belligerent state (the U.S.) through conducting opinion polls for Gallup Organization and Zogby Polling Institute,” and "waging propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran." | |
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| Jailed Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji has defied the will of his captors, vowing to refuse to end his 26-day hunger strike or to apologize for calling last month's election a fraud.
"I will not take back my word. I will not show remorse. I will not stop my hunger strike until I reach my goal," he wrote in an open letter addressed to "free people everywhere" and published last week on the Persian online political magazine, Iran Emrooz. The letter from Mr. Ganji is only the latest in a series of defiant gestures for the author of the "Red Eminence," a book published in 1999 that alleged a former president, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, authorized a string of murders of Iranian intellectuals in the late 1990s. | | | | | The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran. | |
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| We, a group consisting of a number of political parties and social organisations, along with human rights activists and organisations in the Netherlands, declare our solidarity with the Iranian political detainees who are in hunger strike at this moment.
The signers of this petition believe that ‘the right to live free’ is a natural and basic right of any human being, and therefore we wish the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience in Iran. As Iranians living in the Netherlands, we demand you to take stance against the systematic and continuous violation of human rights in Iran, and to take action for the release of all political detainees in Iran. | | | | | The life of all the political prisoners in Iran, who are the opponents of the Islamic regime, is in grave danger! In particular, the life of Dr. Naser Zarafshan, a rominent lawyer whose health has drastically deteriorated, and is currently in need of urgent medical care. | |
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| The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release prisoners of conscience, particularly those in urgent need of medical treatment, a group of leading international human rights organizations said today.
Akbar Ganji, Nasser Zarafshan, Reza Alijani, Taqi Rahmani and Hoda Saber have been imprisoned solely because of their political views and peaceful activities, the organizations said. The authorities should release them immediately and unconditionally. | | | | Arbitrary Interference, Discriminatory Criteria Exclude Candidates
Iran’s discriminatory election laws and the Guardian Council’s exclusion of candidates prevents Iranian voters from freely electing candidates or standing for public office, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of Friday’s presidential election. | |
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| In support of political prisoners in Iran, Prince Reza Pahlavi will be on Hunger Strike.
In response to an invitation letter sent by political prisoners from inside Iran and to show his support with them, Prince Reza Pahlavi will be on hunger strike in June, Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th 2005. [20, 21, 22 Khordad] | | | | | In protest of the exhibited, conditioned and undemocratic presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran. | |
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| We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the condition of Mr. Akbar Ganji, the Iranian investigative journalist and a prominent advocate of human rights and civil society who has been in prison for the past five years. Mr. Ganji was arrested on April 22, 2000 following his participation in an academic and cultural conference held at the Heinrich B?Institute in Berlin, April 7-9, 2000. He was sentenced on January 13, 2001 to 10 years' imprisonment plus five years' internal exile.
| | | | | A few days ago Officials met with Ganji in Evin prison and asked him to stop his hunger strike and they promissed they will work on his demands and based on this agreement Akbar Ganji temporarily stoped his hunger strike ( Although he mentioned he only took some soup ) and said that if they didn't fullfil his demand he will re-start his hunger strike on Thursday. | |
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|  Iran's Supreme Court has freed a pollster from jail, throwing out charges that he sold classified information to foreign intelligence agencies, his lawyer said Saturday.
Pro-reform activist Abbas Abdi was convicted in February 2003 and was serving an eight-year prison sentence.
The Supreme Court overturned the conviction on May 2, said Saleh Nikbakht, his lawyer. | | | | Concerns have been raised by Syrian human rights groups over the arrest of three Ahwazi students and two refugees in Syria.
Syria and Iran have forged a closer alliance following the US invasion of Iraq, fearing that their sovereignty may also be undermined. The arrest of Ahwazis in Syria, two weeks after an Ahwazi uprising in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, has raised fears that the Syrian government may be targetting Ahwazis on behalf of Iran.
The families of those detained have reportedly been denied access. Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera TV network says the men are alleged to be affiliated with the Al-Ahwaz Arab Peoples Democratic Popular Front, a separatist Arab group involved in the uprising. The group has called for their release of the prisoners, but has not confirmed whether they are members. | |
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| | Based on the story by one of the person present in the seminar known as " human rights and free election" which was held on the morning of Monday April 25 / 2005 with the presence of many political activists in the office of the "Centre of the Defenders of Human rights", and when the organizers did not give time to " Yusef Bani- Torf " the Arab writer & member of the "Association of Iran's Writers" to speak about the events of "Ahvaz" , He then shouted that in Khuzestan the regime have killed 60 people and more than 1200 have been arrested. Bani-Torf hours later when leaving this meeting have been arrested in his home by 7-8 plain cloths agents and with the order of the Islamic Revolution Court . His wife in a telephon coversation with Khosro Shemiranie of "Shahrvand" told that : Bani Torf before leaving the house told her that on the subpoena it was written that; the destination is Evin prison. | | | | Ahwaz, Apr. 23 – (Iran Focus) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards executed a number of teenage demonstrators in the streets of Ahwaz, southern Iran, according to eye-witnesses.
Residents reported that Revolutionary Guards arrested demonstrators in the city streets and gunned them down to terrorise the local people and end a weeklong anti-government uprising that has spread throughout the oil-rich Khuzestan Province. | |
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|  Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who completes his fifth year in Tehran's Evin prison tomorrow, is seriously ill and should be granted an immediate and unconditional release, Reporters Without Borders said today.
"Ganji is one of Iran's leading journalists and, at the same time, the one who has been imprisoned for the longest period," the press freedom organization said. "We call on the judicial authorities to stop ignoring the prison doctors, who have been saying for three years that he needs to be let out of prison for treatment. His condition requires immediate hospitalization and the Iranian authorities will be held responsible for their criminal attitude." | | | |  Iran’s Supreme Court upheld an execution sentence for a 38-year-old political prisoner from the western Iranian town of Boukan.
Esmaeil Mohammadi was informed of the decision through a letter from the authorities, which indicated that his execution would be carried out within the next few days. Mohammadi, a father of five, has been imprisoned for the past two years in the city of Urumiya (northwest Iran), accused of being a supporter of the Kurdish Komala organisation. | |
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The judiciary system of the Islamic Republic of Iran has ordered the execution of Mr. Hojjat zamani, 29, a political prisoner and his execution is imminent. In 2003, Hojjat zamani escaped from the Evin prison, but was extradited to Iran by the Turkish police. His two brothers have been executed by the Iranian government before.
Hojjat zamani and six other political prisoners started a 32 days hunger strike on January 24, 2005 that attracted international attention to the horrendous conditions of prisons in Iran and severe abuse of human rights . Now, less than a month after that hunger strike, the Islamic republic regime intends to execute Hojjat Zamani. | | | | | "In view of the sharp increase of human rights violations against the Bahá'í community of Iran, it is nothing less than shocking that the Commission on Human Rights has for the third year in a row failed to renew international monitoring of the situation," said Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations. | |
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| | US Congress has appropriated $3 million, and the State Department is inviting proposals from "educational institutions, humanitarian groups, non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights," according to an announcement posted Friday on the Web site of the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. | | | | | The attention given to any event that shows the U.S. in a bad light, and the inattention paid to news that makes U.S. mistakes pale by comparison, never ceases to amaze. Case in point: word last Thursday that a Canadian photojournalist was beaten, tortured and raped before dying two years ago while in custody in Iran. This got all of 2 1/2 inches inside both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and we doubt another word will be heard. | |
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| | Dr. Shahram Azam, an unassuming, intense man in his late 30s, had barely started his emergency-room shift when he admitted a female patient on a stretcher from Tehran's Evin prison at 12:15 a.m. on June 27, 2003. Zahra Kazemi was accompanied by three guards and a written diagnosis of hemorrhage as a result of digestive problems. Dr. Shahram Azam soon found that she was deeply unconscious due to a skull fracture and had wounds and bruises all over her body. | | | | Iran Watch Canada:
Arash Sigarchi have been detained around 2 months ago, and after a while in detention , a sentencing of 14 years imprisonment based on the accusation of " Interview with Radio Farda " and conspiracy against Islamic Republic was delivered to him.imprisonment and jail sentencing of this young journalist who is also the editor in chief of the " Gilan Emrooz " newspaper became center of some differences among the people who were in a way in contact with him and also 7 journalists and human rights advocate criticized " Radio Farda " for not following the principle of journalism and as well the spoke person from the RSF was also been blamed for not paying more attention to their responsibility . But most of all in question ; was the publication of the private letter of Arash Sigarchi .Its a few days now that Arash Sigarchi has been released from detention on a bail of 100 million " Tuman " . and still is reviwing the news about the time of his detention and gaining strength. with the situation he is in right now ; we have made an interview with him which is coming in the following. | |
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The Heat: Iran's Political Landscape
