Tag: Iran
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Time to say goodbye to executions
I have not been able to blog for the past ten days and have much to write about. Most urgently I must tell you about the International Committee against Execution’s call for a two week campaign against executions in Iran during 22 July – 5 August 2013. You can see Mina Ahadi’s report on the…
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Plea of the families of 26 activists who have been sentenced to death!
Also below see Khaled Hardani’s family’s appeal to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations To Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Secretary General of the United Nations, Receive the painful letter of these families whose children have been in exile, jail, and away from family and home, have been deprived of…
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We need you to protest
To all caring people around the world! On the left is is a picture of a nice young couple. This is Ali Mahin Torabi and his wife, in Turkey who are looking for a safe place to move to. Ali had been sentenced to death. In 2001 when he was 15 years old he asked…
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Rage against stoning
Today is International day against Stoning. Mina Ahadi, Spokesperson for the International Committee against Stoning, has written a piece in Persian about it here. Real live human beings are still buried in a ditch and stoned until they are dead in the 21st century. In Iran, stoning someone to death isn’t illegal; it’s perfectly legal…
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Act now: political prisoners in Iran
For the attention of the general public, trade unions and human rights organisations: Political prisoners die in Iran’s prisons The Islamic Republic is responsible. An immediate international action is required On June 21, 2013, Afshin Osanlou, an inter-city bus driver and a well-known working class activist, who had been held in prison since fall 2010,…
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4 people sentenced to death by stoning
Women’s rights activist to be stoned to death! The International Committee Against Stoning warns the local authorities in Tabriz and the leaders of the Islamic regime of the consequences of this barbarity. On 2 July, we received information from Tabriz prison that two people have been sentenced to death by stoning. Zarah Saee and Ali…
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Labour activist Afshin Osanlou dies in prison in Iran
SIGN PETITION CONDEMNING OSANLOU’S DEATH The regime in Iran is responsible for his death Afshin Osanlou, an inter-city bus driver, prominent labour activist and brother of bus workers’ union leader Mansoor Osanlou, died of cardiac arrest in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran on Friday 21st June. He was only 42. According to his family, Afshin…
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I dream of freedom
Here’s a video of a recent street party in Tehran. Remember that mixing of sexes, dancing and non-religious music are banned. Whilst that doesn’t stop anyone, doing so on the streets transforms it into a form of resistance. The young men and women can be heard singing: I have a dream; I dream of freedom……
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Free political prisoners in Iran
Following the so-called 2013 Islamic regime’s presidential election and announcing Hassan Rowhani as the president, there was a demand, which was imposed on him by people, that stood up against all others: the release of all political prisoners. Rowhani announced that he will release political prisoners and will give freedom to the press. During the…
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On the 2013 elections in Iran
The so-called Iranian presidential election farce is over. Hassan Rowhani, a long-time military and security figure of the regime, has come out of the polls. Khamanei called the elections “a political epic”; Rafsanjani called it “infallible democracy”; the BBC celebrated it as the “victory of rationalism over idealism”; the pro-regime “opposition” found it “hopeful” and…
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How to tell conservatives from reformers in Iran election
This is the best (and only way) way to tell the “conservatives” from the “reformers” in the Iranian regime’s farce of an election: