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Feb 27 2010 10:44AM
Forget Us Not, Bridge Walk on International Women's Day

Forget Us Not Iranian women have lived under the shadow of discrimination,humiliation and suppression for the past thirty one years. With the worsening political atmosphere after the June presidential elections Iranian women and their...

Feb 23 2010 10:37AM
BBC Persian has received a new film on the attack at the university dormitory on June 14, 2009 Iran

فیلم منتشر نشده ای از حمله به کوی دانشگاه http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2010/02/100222_iran_l19_kooy_tehran_u… The film is sel-explanatory. Needless to say that according to reports 5 students were killed and more...

Feb 20 2010 9:26PM
Forget me not but how many?

These days our email group which consisted of human rights and women's rights activists has decreased in number. Those who we befriended from inside the country after the June elections and a mutual commitment and belief tied us...

Feb 19 2010 10:17AM
Families of the 1980s massacres are at risk

In the 1980s and in the muddle of Iran-Iraq war Ayatollah Knomeini ordered the total wipe out of political prisoners. As a result and in a matter of few months thousands of prisoners were tried in a few minutes court appearances inside...

Feb 18 2010 10:04AM
Channel 4 interview with a Basiji Militia

The Iranian delegation at the United Nations Comission for Human Rights declared last week, that Iran is a free country and the only democracy in the region. Mr Larijani said that no one has been tortured and assualted in the Iranian...

Feb 14 2010 10:39PM
Mothers of a number of political prisoners write an open letter

Recently mothers of 18 political ptisoners who have been detained after the presidential elections and are kept without charge or access to lawyers have written an open letter, indicating the pain and suffering of a mother when her...

Feb 9 2010 10:21PM
Iranian revolution 31 years on

On February 1979, Iran's political system of governance changed hands. The long-standing 2,500 years monarchy was overthrown by the people and replaced by a republic which dominated by religous sentiments and a religous leader who...

Feb 3 2010 9:34AM
The Islamic Republic has gone on a killing spree. Help us to stop their deadly machine.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, unable to stop the wave of unrest and dissatisfaction in Iran has gone on killing spree. Last week two young men were murdered for crimes they had not committed. They were in detention two months before...

Jan 28 2010 9:13AM
Execution of two prisoners of conscious on the anniversary of the revolution

The Iranian regime, in a conscious but desparate effort to prevent mass demonstrations on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution has issued death sentences to 11 people on charges of conspiracy against the Islamic Republic and hanged...

Jan 27 2010 12:48PM
Massoud Bastani, journalist in dentention in danger!

We put the Persian version of this piece of news on this blog to emphasise its importance. It is about one particular journalist, Massoud Bastani whose only crime was reporting. He was detained in July 2009. He went to the...

Jan 21 2010 10:23AM
Another Kurdish woman is sentenced to death

According to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: Kurdish dissidents are increasingly in danger of execution due to unfair trials. In recent months at least 19 Kurdish prisoners were sentenced to death. The judiciary system...

Jan 19 2010 11:02AM
Free Abbas Khalil Dermaneh (Khalil Dermanaki)

This letter and request was published on an email group appealing to the international community of human rights organisations and defenders to follow the events in Iran and the appauling human rights abuses which is committed every...

Jan 10 2010 12:08PM
The Tsunami of arrests, a non-stop wave

A group of Iranian women who call themselves the Mourning Mothers and who comprise of mothers who have lost their children in the post-presidential unrests, gather every Saturday at Park Laleh in central Tehran to commomerate their...

Jan 4 2010 4:38PM
The tsunami of arrests in Iran continues to rise

The Islamic regime at the end of its miserable 30 years has unleashed its reign of terror and intimidation in order to rule for yet a few more months or maybe longer. The wave of arrests and kidnapping civil rights activists has not...

Jan 1 2010 9:26PM
How Much? How long?

Those of us who were in Iran and participated in the revolution of 1979 remember the days that the Shah's regime, unable to control the people resorted to violence in order to silence them. It didn't work. The Shah was finally toppled...

Dec 23 2009 3:58PM
Mourning ceremonies & security services and Basiji militia brutalities

Today is the third day of mourning for the death of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. His family were not able to hold any public ceremonies for him due to the intervention by the Basiji militias and the security services who occupied the...

Dec 23 2009 3:58PM
Mourning ceremonies & security services and Basiji militia brutalities

Today is the third day of mourning for the death of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. His family were not able to hold any public ceremonies for him due to the intervention by the Basiji militias and the security services who occupied the...

Dec 22 2009 11:21AM
Ayatollah Montazeri, father of Iran's human rights passed away

"Humans are free and independent to decide for themselves" These are the final words of Ayatollah Montazeri who wrote in a letter, which as a grand ayatollah can be accepted as a final verdict on Islam and human rights.As a grand...

Dec 8 2009 9:44AM
More than Ten of Mourning arrested in the park

Saturday 5 December 2009 Change for Equality: Tens of mourning mothers of Iran, a group of women who gather every Saturday in Parks, have been arrested by the security forces on Saturday evening in Park Laleh, Tehran. It has been...

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