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Category Archives: Human Rights
Solidarity of Bloggers with the Imprisoned Iranian Students
A large group of Iranian bloggers have decided to show their solidarity with tens of Iranian students who are imprisoned by the administration. More information, in Persian, is given in this blog. This is the statement issued by the organizers … Continue reading
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Iranian women pursue rights despite pressure
Nahid Keshavarz says two weeks in an Iranian jail didn’t deter her from helping try to collect one million signatures for a petition urging more women’s rights and, if anything, prison showed the cause was worth fighting for.Keshavarz is one … Continue reading
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Human Right’s situation in Iran
Doubtful death of the political prisoners, bans on publications, filtering internet sites, arresting political, social, cultural and human right’s activists, disregarding the religious minorities’ right, expulsion of students and professors from universities, women’ suppression, the critical situation of the labors … Continue reading
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Iran hangs man for crime committed at age 13
Robert Tait has written a good article about child executions in Iran and the case of a boy hanged for a crime committed at age 13. Apparently they executed Makwan despite a stay of execution ordered by Iran’s judiciary chief, … Continue reading
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U.S. sides with Iran and Sudan?
Thats the title of last Saturday’s Los Angeles Times editorial about the recent United Nations resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions. As expected United States allied with Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia voting against the resolution. Representatives of … Continue reading
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Iranian Labor Activists’ Prison Sentences Upheld
An appellate court in Tehran has confirmed a five-year jail sentence against jailed union leader Mansour Osanloo on security charges, Radio Farda reported. The court also upheld a two-year prison sentence against another senior member of Osanlu’s union, Ebrahim Madadi, … Continue reading
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Water Boarding is not torture?
Whoever believes that water boarding is not torture (ex. Gonzo and Mukasey) should read Evan Wallach’s report for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. How do we know it is torture? Well because United States has tried and convicted people … Continue reading
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Tell Us Where Are the Red Lines
Journalist Emadeddin Baghi who is also the head of Iran’s Organization for the Defense of Prisoners’ Rights (Anjomane Defa az Hoghooghe Zendanian) has been in Evin prison for 6 days now. He has written a letter to ayatollah Shahrudi, the … Continue reading
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Free Our Classmates
Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli, Three students of the Amir Kabir University were sentenced to 2, 2.5 and 3 years of prison a few days ago. Officials arrested the students in May along with five other students on … Continue reading
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