Yesterday Mansour Osanlou, the chief of the public transport union “Syndica” and a well known figure in the Iranian workers movement, was censued and sentenced to five years in prison by the 14th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary court for “acting against national security”.
The Allameh Tabatabaei university of Tehran, another Iranian university with a […]
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A sign in Tehran reads:
Dear Tehran-based villager,
The new voice of the West: “Bad hejab, incivility, not praying, cigarettes, music, satellite, Internet, mobiles, anti-theft devises, illiteracy, ignorance, illness, insecurity, unawareness, humility, greediness” are forced on to humanity and turn humans in to lower level than animals!!!
Another warns women that if they dress up like westerners they […]
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Today at lunchtime the students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran went on a hunger strike to protest against the arrest of the seven student activists currently held in the notorious Evin prison, and also against the increasing pressure on other active academics using harassments, banning and eviction of the active students from the university […]
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A shopkeeper in 7-Tir square in Tehran mentioned later “The officers questioned three girls, aged 25- 30, for their veils. The questioning was so harsh that they reacted. A female officer started pulling a girl’s hand to get her in the police patrol, but she refused. Then, a male officer attacked the girl. […]
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This morning when Arman Sadeghi and Ismail Salmanpour, both members of the Islamic Student Association activist body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, tried to enter the university they were attacked by the university’s security guards who were ordered to do so by the university’s president, Dr. Ali-Reza Rahayi, who […]
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Prisoner of Tehran is a new book that I really recommend reading. The author, Marina Nemat, was only a teenager when the Islamic Revolution took place in 1979. She was a good student from a Christian Iranian family who was brought up to speak her mind, which got her in to trouble in a […]
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An editor for the international Committee to Protect Journalists contacted me a few days ago to confirm the news that I had posted about regarding the situation of the arrested students and newspaper editors and to help them with some translations.
On Tuesday the article was published. I want to personally thank Ivan Karakashian and the […]
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In the last week over 40 students of the Amir Kabir University in Tehran have been called to meet the University Disciplinary Committee, six of these students have since been banned from attending the classes and the dormitories.
One of these students was Bijan Pouryousefi, a committee member of the student activist body ISA, has been […]
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IRQO (IRanian Queer Organization) reports that 80 young men who were arrested at a party are under severe torture and pressure by Iranian authorities while they have not been officially charged yet.
Homosexuality is punishable by death under the Islamic Republic law, this was apparent in the case of Iranian teenagers Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni […]
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Last friday, a fashion police officer called Javad Naderi in Tabriz, a city in North West of Iran, shot down a young man after getting in to an argument with him and his friend over their loud music in their car. The young men were named Armin Ebrahimnejad (19) and Behman Abbaszadeh (20) in […]
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