Archive for April, 2010
A Move That Makes a Mockery of Human Rights
By Akbar Ganji The past year has been a horrifying one for the Iranian people. Following the presidential election in June, people poured into the streets for a peaceful protest against widespread election fraud. Government forces and militia opened fire on orders from the Supreme Leader. Some 70 protesters died, including some under torture, thousands were detained, [...]
Iran’s Apartheid – Keep Iran off the Human Rights Council
by Mehrangiz Kar As a guest scholar at Cape Town University, I have been studying South Africa’s peaceful transition from Apartheid rule to a democratic constitution with much curiosity. My generation grew up in Iran with the daily news of your struggles against Apartheid. From far away, we followed how Nelson Mandela urged and led [...]
No to Iran on the Human Rights Council!
——- By Ali Akbar Mousavi Commentary Friday, April 23, 2010 In a brazen move, considering Iran’s appalling record when it comes to systematic human rights violations, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government has asked to be considered this May for membership in the United National Human Rights Council. Most nations opposed the Islamic Republic’s first request for [...]
Iran presses its crackdown on reformists
Printed in the International Herald Tribune on Apr 20, 2010 The Iranian authorities suspended two prominent opposition political parties, banned a newspaper and handed down prison sentences to three reformist political figures on Monday in the latest signs that the hard-line rulers aim to crush any official political representation by the reformist movement. The opposition [...]
264 Days and Counting
Nine months. Two-hundred-sixty-four days. However you total it up, it is too long for three Americans to be cruelly, and unfairly, held in an Iranian jail. Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal and Sarah Shourd should have been released long ago. It now seems that Iran’s mullah-led government has made them pawns in the political chess game [...]
Interview With Saba Vasefi: There Are No Legal Grounds for My Dismissal
Saba Vasefi, a former professor at Shahid Beheshti University who is a women’s movement and human rights activist is one of the faculty members who has been deprived from her teaching job during the recent months and following the dismissal of several university teachers. In an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Vasefi said that there were no legal grounds for her dismissal and against existing policies and procedures governing the employment of academic research and staff, she has not been provided for any reasons for her dismissal. The trend to dismiss university professors for their political and social activities has intensified recently.
Student Activist Kaveh Rezaei Shirazi Called to Serve Prison Sentence
Activist Kaveh Rezaei Shirazi has been summoned to turn himself in for commencement of his 1.5 year sentence in a case where Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence filed charges against him. Rezaei Shirazi is an activist with the One Million Signatures Campaign and an expelled student of Hamadan Bou Ali Sina University. In a written notice from Karaj’s Hashtgerd Courts, he has been ordered to turn himself in by Monday, April 26, 2010.
Eftekhar Barzegarian Released After 8 Months in Prison
After eight months in prison, Eftekhar Barzegarian was released from Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison. Barzegarian is a Ferdowsi University student activist who was deprived from continuing his education through four semester’s suspension and expelled from the university. He was released on guardianship (in lieu of bail). His trial will be held on May 5, 2010 on charges of “actions against national security,” and “illegal congregation,” with Judge Kavoosi presiding.
Seven Members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Banned From Traveling Abroad
With the travel ban of Hadi Esmaeelzadeh, a member of the Center of Human Rights Defenders, currently seven members of this human rights organization have been barred from leaving Iran. Some of the other members of the organization who have been banned from traveling abroad are Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mohammad Seifzadeh, and Narges Mohammadi. Security and judicial authorities have told some members of the Center that when the 2003 Noble Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi who heads the organization returns to Iran, she too will be barred from traveling abroad.
Farideh Gheirat: Even Baghi’s Lawyer Can’t Access His File
In an interview about the Evin Prison Court which has been established for reviewing the cases of political prisoners, prominent Iranian lawyer and former Deputy Chairperson of the Iranian Bar Association Farideh Gheirat told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that access to her clients’ cases has become extremely difficult. She also said that distinguished human rights activist Emaddedin Baghi’s lawyer has been unable to access his case file.
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