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…

Who is to Blame for the Dover 58?

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English March 5, 2001 Perry Wacker, a lorry driver, is currently on trial for the deaths of the Dover 58,…

No One Must Be Next

A Case Study of Ramin Khaleghi and the failed UK asylum policy Maryam Namazie Presented at the Iranian Researchers’ Association conference February 9, 2001 London,…

Ramin Khaleghi’s Murderers Meet Soon

Maryam Namazie Published in Hambastegi English February 5, 2001 On February 3, over 350 people gathered in Leicester to protest the death of Ramin Khaleghi,…

Save Kobra Rahmanpour Campaign

Kobra Rahmanpour is a 22 year old woman, currently under the threat of being hanged by the Islamic regime of Iran. She had spent the…