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 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 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 […]
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 Homosexuality in Iran, Human Rights in Iran on Jun 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Farsad, 26, and Farnam, 24, met in a gay chat room last winter. After corresponding they moved in together to start life as a couple, in disguise but together. They invited small group of their friends to celebrate this union. Just fifteen minutes after the party began, the police broke into their house and arrested […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Appeal, Human Rights in Iran, ISA, Student activism on Jun 15th, 2007 20 Comments »
This is an appeal by bloggers against the detention of 9 Iranian students from the Amir Kabir Polytechnic University in Tehran who are been kept and repeatedly tortured at the notorious Evin prison:
Dr. Keyvan Ansari - Alumni Association of Iran, since September 18 (2006)
Ahmad Ghassaban - Editor of Sahar, since May 3
Maghdad Khalilpur […]
Posted in Human Rights in Iran, Hunger strike, Islamic Revolution, News, Political prisoners, Religion and stupidity, Report on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Ayatollah Boroujerdi (son of the prominent Shia cleric Seyyed Mohammad Ali Kazemeini Boroujerdi) has been sentenced to death together with 17 of his followers.
The secular ideology of this Shia cleric is that the Hidden Imam is the only one who has the legitimate competence to rule and pass judgment based on Islam, not the […]
