Source: Radio Zamaaneh | April 23, 2010 Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations has issued a statement to announce that a group of its members will go on a hunger strike in protest to “illegal execution and imprisonment sentences” handed to a number of teachers. The statement says that the executive members of the [...]
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Prisoners start hunger strike in Evin Prison
Source: Radio Zamaaneh | February 23, 2010 Political prisoners in Section 350 of Iran’s Evin Prison have started protest efforts to harsh prison conditions and issuance of unfair sentences by going on hunger strike on alternative days until the anniversary of Iran’s controversial presidential elections on June 12. Relative of one of the organizers of [...]
275 Days in Prison–Issa Saharkhiz’s Poor Health after Hunger Strike
(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) | April 5, 2010 Journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s health has taken a turn for the worse after going on a hunger strike in March. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, his son, Mehdi Saharkhiz, said that his father has lost 20 Kg over [...]
Global Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s Symbolic Hunger Strike in New York on February 20
(Payvand) | February 19, 2010 MEDIA ALERT by Solidarity Committee for the Advancement of Democracy in Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran, desperate and incapable of responding to the most basic demands of its people, has created an atmosphere of excessive terror to stop the nation from further calls for justice. The Islamic Republic, in [...]
Mehdi Saharkhiz’s protest speeches in front of U.N.
Mahdi Saharkhiz (on Twitter.com: http://www.twitter.com/onlymedhi) is the son of Issa Saharkhiz, who has been held under arrest by the Islamic Republic of Iran since around the time of the rigged presidential election in Iran on June 12. For weeks, Mahdi has been informing the world about his father’s arrest. Three days ago, at the start [...]
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