Archive for September, 2010
A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran
Next: Iranian Officials’ Claims on Rights Issues: Myths vs. Facts Executions and Stoning Since last year’s disputed Presidential election, the Iranian government has instituted a hyped-up campaign of executions, virtually all of which have followed unfair trials. Amnesty International estimates that Iran executed 388 people in 2009, 112 of them in the two months following [...]
Larry King – September 2009
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Larry King – CNN September 26, 2009 KING: Your country has, you’ve said, rather, that 40 million people participated in the June elections. Iran uses paper ballots. They’re hand counted. Yet the Interior Ministry announced the official results less than 24 hours after the poll closed. How could you count votes so [...]
Katie Couric Interviews Ahmadinejad
Katie Couric’s Interview with Ahmadinejad – CBS Evening News September 29, 2009 Couric: During and after the presidential election, Mr. President, thousands of opposition supporters and journalists were arrested, badly beaten, and tortured. One woman, 27 year old Neda, as you know, was shot to death while protesting and her death was captured on a [...]
Jon Snow
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Channel 4 of England’s December 23, 2009 JON SNOW: There have been disturbances there has been awful scenes of violence on the streets and that has disturbed people inside and outside Iran. That makes it difficult to extend hand doesn’t it? AHMADINEJAD: We are facing same problems here. While the US has [...]
Kim Bildsoe
Ahmadinejad’s Interview with Kim Bildsoe of Dutch TV January 8, 2010 KIM BILDSOE: There has been protestors on the street, some have called them also lately, traitors, that they don’t understand Iran. Do you think that the young people on the street, making trouble some say, that they are traitors? AHMADINEJAD: We should not mix [...]
George Stephanopolous
Ahmadinejad Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ May 4, 2010 They first spoke about relations between Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Iran and the nuclear issue. This portion was about the American hikers: STEPHANOPOULOS: Three American hikers have been imprisoned in Iran since last July 31. No representation. No charges brought against them. [...]
Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed
Next: Appendix: Iranian Officials’ Replies to Human Rights Oriented Questions in Previous Interviews Reviewed by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Back to Main ———————————————————————————— Next
Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad
Next: Interviewers and Human Rights Issues Discussed Back to Page 1 of Suggested Questions 8. Question on allegations of forced confessions Question: How do you respond to allegations by former prisoners that the Iranian Intelligence Ministry forced them to make false confessions which were broadcast on Iran’s national TV? What have you done to stop [...]
Suggested Questions for President Ahmadinejad
Page 2 of Suggested Questions 1. Question on former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Question: Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been indicted by a special Judges Court within the Iranian Judiciary for his involvement in the arrest orders of protesters that were taken to Kahrizak Detention Center. The detainees were brutally tortured and four of [...]
Introduction: Human Rights Under Seige in Iran
Next: A Brief Summary of Major Human Rights Violations in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s coming visit to New York, for the opening of the 65th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, will be his second visit to this city since the disputed election of June 2009 and his fifth trip to the United States. It [...]
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