Iranian prison authorities should end the solitary confinement of 17 political prisoners and afford them all the protections to which they are entitled, including access to their families and lawyers,Human Rights Watch said.
The government of Iran has turned its back on a rich tradition of civil society, perpetrating human rights abuses against many activists and ordinary citizens who just wanted the right to be heard.
President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions on Iran that, for the first time, will bar from the American market foreign companies that work with Iranian businesses charged with aiding Tehran’s nuclear program and the suppression of democracy.
OTTAWA, Canada—A group of international scholars, politicians, and activists issued a scathing report in Ottawa on Tuesday condemning Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what they describe as his flaunting international norms regarding nuclear arms, human rights, and terrorism.
The report’s authors claim the document contains the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative witness testimony and documentary evidence to date regarding Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
European Union leaders have approved a new set of sanctions against Iran that go further than the latest United Nations measures.
The fresh EU sanctions include a ban on investments, technical assistance and technology transfers to Iran’s key oil and gas industry
Three words best define the policies of the United States toward Iran in the past 32 years: naiveté, surprise and failure. Ironically however, the rest of the world has been looking to the US for guidance and leadership on how to deal with the Iranian regime. The US policy towards Iran has been a failure.
We, at the Progressive American Iranian Committee (PAIC), are extremely concerned about the current wave of execution of political prisoners of conscience in Iran, as evidenced by the latest five detainees, Frazad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili and Mehdi Eslamian and Shirin Alamhouli, hanged on Sunday 9th of May 2010 in the notorious Evin prison.
Examination of NIAC’s internal documents released during a defamation lawsuit suggests that this organization has violated the rules governing Congressional funds.
Following a defamation lawsuit brought in 2008 some of the internal documents related to these projects have become available. Examination of official documents and NIAC’s internal memos, including email correspondence and…
Most members just chose to make speeches warning of the dire threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program or criticizing the U.N. Security Council for failing to move fast enough on its own parallel effort to impose new sanctions on the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is apparently being granted a visa to come to New York for the NPT meeting.