Posted in Human Rights in Iran on Aug 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
Khavaran - a graveyard where thousands are buried,
in unmarked mass graves.
In the summer of 1988, 7 years after the last mass execution, an unknown number of Iranian political prisoners were martyred by the direct order of the Supreme leader Khomeini.
The estimates are as high as 30,000.
The young girls were raped before execution,
so they would not […]
Posted in CASMII, Islamic Republic agents and apologists, News on Aug 24th, 2007 3 Comments »
Islamic Republic apologist Mohammad Navab, currently on board of directors of NIAC (National Iranian-American Council) - well known apologists for the fundamentalist regime, has apparently resigned from CASMII where he was serving as a director!
In fact, he has denied even being a member!!
Do these regime apologists think that their crimes will not be exposed? Do […]
Posted in Homosexuality in Iran, Human Rights in Iran on Aug 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
An Iranian lesbian, Pegah Emambakhsh, is to be deported from UK even though it is well known that her life will be in danger if she returns to the theocratic state.
The local MP, Richard Caborn (office: 0114 273 7947), should be ashamed of himself for not supporting her in this clear case of […]
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Blogs and blogging on Aug 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is the anniversary of the 1906 Iranian constitutional revolution. However Iranian people are still struggling for democracy and student activists are still sent to jails.
This year several student activists will spend this year’s anniversary in prisons. They include: Mohammad Hashemi, Ali Nikoonesbati, Ali Vefghi, Bahareh Hedayat, Mehdi Arabshahi, Hanif Yazdani, Abodllah Momeni, Bahram Fayyazi, […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Hunger strike, ISA, Student activists on Aug 5th, 2007 3 Comments »
Today is the 24th day that the student activist hero Majid Tavakolli is on hunger strike.
He was arrested 90 days ago when the ISA activist body at Tehran Amir Kabir University was trying to have elections.
Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Confederation of Iranian Students, Student activism, Video on Aug 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGAa8AfboM
The good news is that the international Confederation of Iranian Students is working really hard, here is a music video from their UK federation.
The bad news is that the fundamentalist regime is hanging everyone..
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 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 […]
