THE EYERANIANS

TEHRAN (AFP) — Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the home of Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Thursday, chanting slogans accusing her of supporting US and Israeli “crimes,” she told AFP. Around “150 demonstrators gathered outside my building and chanted slogans opposed to me,” Ebadi said. They chanted “America and Israel commit crimes, Ebadi [...]

Last week three important Democrats – Rep. Jerrold Nadler , Sen. Carl Levin , and VP-elect Joe Biden – independently urged the Attorney General to investigate Dick Cheney’s torture confession . A growing chorus of newspapers ( NY Times ) and legal scholars ( John Dean , Glenn Greenwald ) agrees. Prosecution of those responsible [...]

 Thats the title of CNN article about the case of Ameneh Bahrami. TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — An Iranian woman, blinded by a jilted stalker who threw acid in her face, has persuaded a court to sentence him to be blinded with acid himself under Islamic law demanding an eye for an eye. Ameneh Bahrami refused [...]

This morning I received news that jailed Iranian teacher union activist Farzad Kamangar may be hanged within the next few hours. According to the Education International, he has been taken from his cell in Tehran’s Evin prison in preparation for execution. The guards have told him he is about to be executed and they are [...]

NASTARAN KHERAD will share In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran, her memoir of life in Ayatollah Khomeini’s theocracy. 5:30pm. Follett’s Intellectual Property, 2402 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas This is a powerful memoir of a girlhood spent during the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution. From early childhood, Nastaran chronicles vivid recollections of [...]

Further Information on UA 151/08 (30 May 2008) and follow-ups (11 June 2008; 17 September 2008) – Prisoners of Conscience/Death Penalty IRAN Mahmoud Matin (m), aged 52, civil engineer Arash Basirat (m), aged 44 Mahmoud Matin and Arash Basirat have been acquitted of the charge of apostasy by Branch 5 of the Fars Criminal Court [...]

Reporters Without Borders welcomed with great relief the ruling by the Tehran Supreme Court overturning a death sentence against Kurdish journalist Adnan Hassanpour in Iran, because of a procedural error. The court decided that the journalist, convicted of ‘subversive activities against national security’, could not be considered as a ‘mohareb’ (an enemy of God) and [...]

August 23, 2008: the Iranian government hanged a man convicted of murder in the northeastern town of Bojnourd, a press report said. The man, only identified as Ali, was executed in a prison in North Khorasan province for killing his friend in 2005, the reformist Etemad newspaper said. (Sources: 7 Days, 24/08/2008) August 25, 2008: [...]

Associated Press is reporting that Abie Nathan, the Iranian born Israeli peace activist has died in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital. In a 1996 interview with The Associated Press, Nathan said that during one of his prison hunger strikes, he was certain he was going to die. He bought a grave and a tombstone. When asked [...]