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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Former reformist President Khatami has caused great outrage in Iran between the Mullah community since a video footage of him showing him shaking hands with some woman in Italy was uploaded on to the video sharing site youtube. Physical contact with a women who is not related to a man is prohibited under Islamic Republic’s […]
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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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Hamed Beheshti, an Iranian blogger in Beirut claims that when he was at a dinner with Dr. Hossein Rahal, the spokesman for Hezbullah, the Iranian guests there told Rahal about the popularity Hezbollah has gained since the last summer’s war with Israel, mainly between some Iranian youth who apparently wear t-shirts with pictures of Hassan […]
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Ehteram Shadfar, an Iranian women rights activists from the One Million Signatures campaign has been arrested, just in time for the anniversary of the day of solidarity of Iranian women against the discriminatory Sharia laws of the Islamic Republic on June 12.
According to Ehteram’s daughter Maryam Taghavi, the arrest took place by plain clothed […]
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A student publication at Mazandaran University called Shora has been ordered to stop producing any more issues.
The editor for the Shora publication, Hamed Mehdi, has commented that he was told that he had crossed the “red lines” when he published an article which recalled the surrounding events to the arrest of Bijan Sabbagh, one of […]
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Ali Saberi and Abbas Hakimzadeh student activists and key committee members of the politically active ISA body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran were both arrested and taken to infamous Section 209 in Evin prison on Wednesday.
The security forces searched their house and took their personal computers and CDs as evidence, while telling their family […]
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Posted in Activism and opposition movements, Anti-War campaigners, CASMII, Exporting Islamic Revolution, Fakhravar, Human Rights in Iran, Islamic Republic agents and apologists, Political prisoners, Report, Reza Pahlavi, Student activism on Jun 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
The Islamic Republic agents and apologists CASMII (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran) strike again!
This time it is a poor attempt by Mr. Pourzal who has gone further than the expected attack on ex political prisoners of Iran, to focus his attack on the human rights activist and hero Nazanin Afshin-Jam.
Is it not […]
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Ehsan Mansouri, the secretary of the political affairs of the ISA activist body who was banned from entering the Tehran Amir Kabir University last month, was finally arrested by revolutionary guards.
The arrest came after two weeks of harassment through phone calls and beatings of his family members during several visits they had made to […]
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