Persian2English | July 8, 2010 HRANA – Majid Tavakoli, imprisoned Amirkabir University (AUT) student writes a letter on the occasion of the anniversary of attacks on the student dormitories that took place on July 9, 1999 (18 Tir). According to HRANA, the full content of the letter is as follows: My Bitter Memories By MAJID [...]
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Radio Zamaneh: Iranian political detainee [Hossein Derakhshan] gets his first trial
Radio Zameneh | June 23, 2010 Tehran Revolutionary Court held Hossein Derakhshan’s first trial today, Fars News Agency reports. Derakhshan, who is known as the father of Persian blogging, is accused of “cooperation with enemy states, propaganda against the Islamic regime, promoting anti-Revolutionary groups, insulting sanctities, launching and managing vulgar and obscene sites.” Hossein Derakhshan [...]
Exclusive Video: Nobel Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi in Vancouver Discusses Human Rights In Iran, Talks to Iran News Now
On Friday, April 23, 2010, Dr. Shirin Ebadi appeared at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver to give a lecture on the appalling human rights situation in Iran since the Islamic Republic came into being in 1979 and since the disputed presidential election of 2009 that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. [...]
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 [...]
Pedestrian: The Man in Sorrow
Source: Pedestrian | April 12, 2010 Ezatollah Sahabi is the 80 year old head of Iran’s Nationalist-Religious political alliance. He has spent years in prison, in both the pre and post revolution eras, and here he reflects on the state of prisons in Iran and laments all the young lives who are unjustly and mercilessly [...]
Radio Zamaaneh: Iranian opposition leader urges supporters to counter State’s media restrictions
Source: Radio Zamaaneh | April 18, 2010 Iranian opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi called on supporters of the Green Movement to counter the attacks on the freedom of the press by replacing every banned weblog with “tens of weblogs for defending the people’s rights.” Speaking in a meeting with the student committee of reformist organization Mojahedin [...]
Iranian Bloggers Publicize Cases Of Lesser-Known Prisoners
(RFE/RL) | April 14, 2010 By Golnaz Esfandiari Iranian bloggers supporting the opposition movement have launched a new campaign aimed at publicizing the plight of the lesser-known prisoners who have been jailed in the postelection unrest. Among the lesser-known prisoners are those citizens who were not politically active and are not affiliated with any political [...]
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 [...]
Iranian cleric condemns incarceration of politcal dissidents
(Radio Zamaaneh) | April 4, 2010 Iranian Shiite leader, Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani condemned the continued incarceration of Iranian political and social activists as a strategy to “hold on to power.” In a meeting with families of recent detainees, the reformist cleric maintained that there are some who struggle to hold on to power “at all [...]
Letter by Saeed Malekpour: A Shocking Account of Torture, Interrogation & Forced Confessions
(Reporters and Human Rights Activists if Iran) | March 27, 2010 My name is Saeed Malekpour. I was arrested on October 4th, 2008, near Vanak Square (in northern Tehran) by plainclothes agents who did not present an arrest warrant or identification. Malekpour was born in May 1975. He graduated from Sharif University of Technology with [...]
Iran’s ordinary post-election detainees reach out for help
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 25, 2010 A group of post-election detainees issued a letter to draw public attention to the ordeal of ordinary post-election prisoners who do not have the support and advocacy that is naturally given to prominent faces amongst the detainees. In the letter, they state that for the mere crimes of “receiving [...]
Iran Releases Opposition Leaders, Rights Advocates Say
(The New York Times) | March 19, 2010 In recent weeks, the Iranian authorities have released dozens of high-profile opposition figures who were arrested after the disputed presidential elections in June, rights advocates said on Friday. The prisoners were required to post bail in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the advocates said. Mohsen Mirdamadi, [...]
Six execution sentences for Iran’s Ashura Day detainees
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 15, 2010 Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General announced that Iranian judiciary has issued execution sentences for six of the Ashura Day detainees. Fars News Agency reports that after meeting with Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani in Qom, Tehran’s Prosecutor-General declared that these sentences have been issued and are now in the appeals court. [...]
Uncertainty for detained journalists as New Year approaches
(A Street Journalist) | March 14, 2010 Despite that the families of many detained journalists have secured the bail to release their loved ones for the Persian New Year, there is still no information on the date of their release. There is no news on the release of Akbar Montejabi, Vahid Pourostad, Ehsan Mehrabi, and [...]
Why Is Iran Releasing Some Postelection Detainees?
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 12, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari The Iranian authorities in recent weeks have begun to release some of the former officials, activists, and intellectuals detained in last year’s post-election unrest. Those released in recent days include former Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, activist Abdollah Momeni, and student leader [...]
Iran frees top opposition figure for new year: reports
(Associated Free Press hosted by Google) | March 10, 2010 TEHRAN — Iran has freed for the new year holidays a prominent opposition figure rounded up during protests against the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, news reports said Thursday. A number of activists and journalists have also been freed under varying conditions in [...]
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