Posted in News, Propaganda watch on Jul 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
It’s only been a month since the Iranian airline Mahan increased it’s flights from Tehran to Manchester to 5 times a week but today UK suspended it’s flights on safety grounds.
Interestingly the Islamic Republic propaganda outlet Press TV which did not cover the petrol rationing crisis or the 18 tir anniversary events, has covered […]
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, Hunger strike, Student activism on Jul 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Saeed Derakhshan, Keyvan Ansari and Abolfazl Jahandar have joined the other three student activists Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghassaban and Ehsan Mansouri who have been on hunger strike since last Saturday after two months and a half spent in Evin with no access to a lawyer or court hearing.
Posted in Humour on Jul 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
Supreme Leader Khamenei and the boys!
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, News, Political prisoners on Jul 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Adnan Hasanpur (pictured), a journalist for the Asu Kurdish-Persian weekly and Heyva Butimar an activist from the Kurdish areas of Iran are to be hanged. Their crimes were described by the Islamic Revolutionary Court as “Propaganda against the Islamic Republic government, and acts against national security“.
Arrested on January 25th Adnan was first told that […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Human Rights in Iran, Hunger strike, ISA, News, Political prisoners, Student activism, Student activists on Jul 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Today three out of the nine Amir Kabir University activist students in jail, Majid Sheikhpur, Ali Saberi and Abbas Hakimzadeh were released after 70 (M.S.) and 43 days (A.S, A.H) from prison.
Majid was arrested during the ISA elections in which he was elected to be on central committee for the ISA with over 900 […]
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, Islamic Revolution, Reza Pahlavi on Jul 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, the cost of living and oppression of the regime have increased steadily, making life unbearable for much of the people of Iran – 12 million of which who live under the poverty line according the government’s own official statistics.
In the last year the government has had a number of […]
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Exporting Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolution on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Azad Baghi Mohammad is the latest Iranian activist who has been arrested in Turkey. For a long time the Turkish government has done secret dealings with the Islamic Republic in order to exchange political prisoners as “criminals”.
Azad born in 1958 had been arrested many times before and was known to help Iranian refugees who […]
Posted in 18 Tir, Activism and opposition movements, Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism, Tahkim Vahdat on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The July 9, 1999 Tehran student rebellion was the single most important movement against the Islamic Republic government. The student movement had steadily got more and more furious against the useless Islamic government who had failed to bring about any changes, even under the name of Khatami’s ‘reformist government’.The students were ready to rebel against […]
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, Movies, News, Women Rights movement on Jul 5th, 2007 12 Comments »
Popular anti-war Labour MP Clare Short promoting the documentary
I just heard the great news that the undercover documentary Execution of a teenage girl produced by Arash Sahami (left in the picture) won the television documentary award at the Amnesty International Media Awards tonight. Arash Sahami and his team risked their lives by going undercover in […]
Posted in Exporting Islamic Revolution, Media on Jul 4th, 2007 3 Comments »
As the Islamic Republic closes yet another newspaper, it introduces a TV channel which Ahmadinejad has called “the oppressed people’s media”.
PRESS TV is an English language media outlet by the Islamic Republic, claimed to be well financed and to have branches in 27 countries worldwide. I have not yet had the time to check their […]
