Sunday October 3rd, 2010 – According to reports from “Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran”, ward 2, a female ward at Evin has been deprived of drinking water for the past 24 hours, resulting in poor health conditions for female political prisoners, regular prisoners and newborns held at this ward.  [...]

In my capacity as foreign minister, I am constantly taking action to enhance respect for the universal principles of human rights in a globalized world. I would like to give you an example that is directly linked to the situation in Iran, namely the issue of freedom of expression and new technologies, which is today a fundamental one: we do see in Iran the fantastic new technology tools for broadcasting information and opinions, but we also do see how the regime censors these tools, restricts access to them, or worse still, uses them to track down dissident voices. It is on the basis of this observation that I launched an initiative on this vital issue. Together with my Dutch counterpart, on 8 July 2010 we convened, for the first time, a meeting of NGOs, Internet companies and States that share our determination to combat repression and censorship on the Internet. In mid-October, we will convene a ministerial conference in Paris to go further still. The issue at stake is to better defend cyberdissidents and better control jamming and filtering technology.

Iran’s president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be “buried” in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran’s nuclear program.

by Freedom and Democracy for Iran on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:50am It was a strange week for the loony strongman from Iran.   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six nights in New York featured a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, heckling in a hotel bar, and a fear of being rubbed out that [...]

We respectfully request that in any future negotiation between your administration and the Islamic regime, human rights of the people in Iran to be the priority issue on the agenda, although the reality has shown that in the past 30 years no attempt for negotiation had any result and only encouraged the Islamic rulers in Iran to take aggressive positions. History has proved the futility of such policies.

US President Barack Obama has ordered unprecedented sanctions against senior Iranian officials for “sustained and severe violations of human rights”.

The eight men include the head of the Revolutionary Guards, a former interior minister and the prosecutor general.

The treasury department said they would face a travel ban and asset freeze.

  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 the election. In 2005, when Ahmadinejad took office, Iran [...]

In spite of massive repression, the freedom movement in Iran is still very much alive and more than ever in need of international support.

Iran’s parliament is preparing to discuss a bill this week that would allow men to marry additional wives without the consent of their first wife, and would tax dowries.

It is called the Family Protection Bill, but it is better known as the antifamily bill.

By Peter Kenny  The Baha’i International Community said the harsh prison sentences meted out against seven Iranian Baha’i leaders are an unjust punishment against innocent people and an entire religious community. The five men and two women imprisoned were arrested in May 2008 and later charged with “spying for foreigners,” as well as “spreading corruption [...]