The right to move, live and work anywhere

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English September 10, 2001 Australia: On 26 August, MS Tampa, a Norwegian ship, rescued 430 plus mainly Afghan asylum seekers…

Violence in Genoa condemned

Maryam Namazie Published in WPI Briefing July 2001 State violence on tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of…

Detention is state-sponsored violence

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English July 2001 Innocent people are often incarcerated in order to deter, control and intimidate the population at large. In…

UNHCR has obligations too

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English June 20, 2001 For the past six months, Abbas Rezai and Ghafor Zarin, two Iranian Kurdish political activists, have…

On the presidential ‘election’ in Iran

Maryam Namazie Interview by an Italian journalist June 20, 2001 Question: Before last week’s elections, your association declared that the June 8 presidential elections in…

Dead on refusal

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English March 19, 2001 In the past three months, several Iranian asylum seekers have committed suicide in the UK and…