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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It looks like Hossein Derakhshan has been thinking of ways to make Khomeini and Islamic Republic marketable for the west.
Apparently this was the only way he found in going about defending the founder of Islamic Republic, who established the notorious dictatorial theocratic regime.
Hossein (Hoder) has filtered my blog (and probably many others) from his blogsbyiranians.com. […]
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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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Yesterday Mansour Osanlou, the chief of the public transport union “Syndica” and a well known figure in the Iranian workers movement, was censued and sentenced to five years in prison by the 14th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary court for “acting against national security”.
The Allameh Tabatabaei university of Tehran, another Iranian university with a […]
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Today at lunchtime the students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran went on a hunger strike to protest against the arrest of the seven student activists currently held in the notorious Evin prison, and also against the increasing pressure on other active academics using harassments, banning and eviction of the active students from the university […]
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This morning when Arman Sadeghi and Ismail Salmanpour, both members of the Islamic Student Association activist body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, tried to enter the university they were attacked by the university’s security guards who were ordered to do so by the university’s president, Dr. Ali-Reza Rahayi, who […]
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An editor for the international Committee to Protect Journalists contacted me a few days ago to confirm the news that I had posted about regarding the situation of the arrested students and newspaper editors and to help them with some translations.
On Tuesday the article was published. I want to personally thank Ivan Karakashian and the […]
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