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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The head of the ILNA (”Iranian Labour News Agency”) Masoud Heidari resigned yesterday after pressure from the Islamic Republic.
Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, there has been a lot of pressure on this news agency because of their coverage of the politically active students who are now widely referred to as “Starred Students” (if they […]
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The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!
University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the […]
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Yesterday the four members who are left from the Central Committee for the AmirKabir Polytechnic University ISA activist body were doing a sit in protest for their imprisoned classmates at the university when Rouzbahani, the head of the cultural affairs, came up to them and threatened them by saying that “Your efforts are against the […]
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So I finally found the time to sit and write about meeting Fakhravar when he was here for a week or two in London, where he spent his time wisely meeting with number of ex-pats, students, policy makers, human rights organisations, etc.
Siavash has always been a controversial figure. Since his escape from Iran and arrival […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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