Human Rights

Iran suspends Google’s email service

Feb 11th, 2010

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100210/iran-suspends-googles-email-service.htmIran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service.

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Iran’s telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google’s email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email [...]



Global Action to influence the 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Iran

Jan 30th, 2010

The situation of human rights in Iran will be reviewed at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC), between February 15-17, 2010.



Report: Iran unrest ‘full-blown rights crisis’

Jan 26th, 2010

The Associated Press
Sunday, January 24, 2010; 2:04 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Human Rights Watch says Iran’s post-election unrest is a “full-blown human rights crisis” and calls on Tehran to free government critics detained during the crackdown.

The New York-based watchdog says the “systematic and brutal targeting” of demonstrators and dissidents by security forces [...]



Trial underway for Baha’i leaders in Iran

Jan 13th, 2010

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/12/Iran.bahai.trial/
(CNN) — Seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i minority went on trial in Tehran Tuesday accused of spying for Israel, a charge their supporters say is motivated by religious discrimination.
The seven — two women and five men — are also accused of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic and committing religious offenses, charges that can carry [...]



Iran Election One Of 2009’s Most Dangerous Stories For Reporters

Dec 31st, 2009

http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Election_One_Of_2009s_Most_Dangerous_Stories_For_Reporters/1917663.html
December 30, 2009
An international media rights group has described Iran’s disputed presidential election as one of the most dangerous stories for journalists to cover in 2009.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said the June election and the protests that followed “prompted a horrifying wave of repression against the media.”
It also said it was concerned at the [...]



Iranian police use teargas and batons in clashes with protesters

Dec 7th, 2009

Mobile phone network cut and protesters arrested in crackdown on supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi

Thousands of Iranian police today used batons and teargas to disperse demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans in the latest street confrontation between the government and the opposition.
In the largest protests in months, university students held rallies at campuses across [...]



For you, who are in solitary confinement on our wedding anniversary

Nov 27th, 2009

http://www.zhila.net/spip.php?article248

Wednesday, 18 November 2009
By Jila Baniyaghoob
Today, it is exactly eleven years that I have been with you. It was exactly on such a day that we began our life together. On that day, we had a simple and small ceremony to celebrate that beginning. You were as simple as ever. You did not even put [...]



One Million Signatures Campaign: the Women of 2009

Nov 19th, 2009

One Million Signatures Campaign: the Women of 2009
By Kiana Karimi & Negar Sammaknejad
Nov. 09, 2009 - In a dazzling ceremony held in New York City Carnegie Hall, Glamour magazine honored twelve women and groups who have made a difference this year. The One Million Signatures Campaign received the 2009 Women of the Year award because [...]



Mystery surrounds Iranian military doctor’s cause of death

Nov 19th, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111801997.html

By Thomas Erdbrink
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 18, 2009; 12:33 PM
TEHRAN — Iran’s national police chief, contradicting earlier accounts, asserted that a military doctor who reportedly testified about the abuse of detained protesters committed suicide last week, state-run news media reported Wednesday.
Police commander Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam indicated that the doctor, Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, took his [...]



Kurdish activist executed in Iran

Nov 11th, 2009

Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Photographer: WashingtonTV
Executions

10:55GMT—5:55AM/EST
Washington, 11 November (WashingtonTV)—A Kurdish activist was hanged on Wednesday morning in a prison in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj, a day after rights groups called for his death sentence to be revoked.
Ehsan Fattahian, 27, was arrested last year for his alleged role in an illegal opposition group. He [...]