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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Saturday April 29,2006
News in Brief- Iran Emroozonline reported from ISNA about this case .

IRAN WATCH CANADA:

To all human rights organizations!

Write letter to Ayatollah Shahrudi the chair of judiciary power and save the life of Ms. Kobra Rahmanpour .
Ms. Kobra Rahmanpour is the 20 years old bride who have killed her mother in law !
Mr. Abdolsamad Khoramshahi is her lawyer, he has said : The file of Ms. Kobra Rahmanpour without any result after two years from mediation council went back to the criminal prosecution.
Previousely she was sentenced to death by the division number 1157 of the Tehran public court but two years ago with the order of the chair of ministry of justice the file was sent to the mediation council and now again her life is in danger .
She will face death if human rights organization keep silent on this.

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Thursday, April 27, 2006


Thursday April 27,2006
news update- Gooya news reporting from ILNA :

Heshmatollah Tabarzadi's lawyer Mr. Khalil Bahramian : My client is entitled to conditional release and must be released from prison!

Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is the general secretary of "Iran's Democratic Front " , he was condemned by Tehrans revolution court to 14 years imprisonment and also he was deprived from all kind of social rights for 10 years, he recieved all of this because of charges like " Actions against national security by forming Iran's Democratic Front and insulting the leader of the Islamic Republic" ,which then in appeal court the sentences was reduced to 5 years for " Actions against national security " and 2 years for " Insulting the leader " , and therefore in general he recieved a total of 7 years imprisonment and 10 years depriviation from all social rights, this sentencing then was approved by the superior court .

The lawyer said this morning i have met with my client in Evin prison and my client during 3 years imprisonment had a chance of only one time to leave the prison for his entitled "leave of absence " and that was 8 months ago. My client have been in prison since June of 1999 and therefore he spent more than 3 over 4 of his prison sentence and he also said that my client have said that he spent more than 3 years of the prison term in solitary confinement which should also be considered . With all of this; i think my client is entitled to be conditionally released.

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http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/047118.php

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Thursday April 27,2006
News in brief- Gooya News online reporting from Voice of Germany ( Dw):

Faraj Sarkuhi the Iranian journalist and writer is named as the new representative of German Pen on human rights issues !

Faraj Sarkuhi announced that in the future he will push more on adopting human rights and freedom of expression!

In an interview with Radio Culture of Germany Faraj Sarkuhi said that; in the future he will particularly help more to the writers in prison around the world. He emphasized that the International Pen can play bigger role by effecting on public mind in helping the writers who are getting arrested , prosecuted and are in prison.

Sarkuhi, is an Iranian writer and journalist who have lived in Germany since 1988, Faraj Sarkuhi is the winner of gold pen from Pen Canada . About his country Iran he said that: Countries that have economic and political relation with Iran can use this tool in bringing change in human rights situation. He said for example Germany have very good trade relation with Iran.

Background on Faraj Sarkuhi:

Faraj Sarkuhi co-founded Adineh, the defunct journal, which became Iran’s leading opposition publication. In 1996 he was kidnapped at Tehran airport and tortured by authorities in a secret prison for 48 days.

Persecuted by the regimes of both the Shah of Iran and the Islamic Republic, Faraj Sarkuhi suffered threats and harassment by the authorities before he was finally forced into exile in 1998. Today, he lives in Germany, where he continues to campaign for greater press freedom in his native Iran.Born Nov. 3, 1947, in Shiraz, Iran, Sarkuhi studied art, sociology and Persian literature at universities in Tabriz and Tehran. While still a student, he wrote book reviews and essays for dissident publications and joined the student movement opposing the autocratic rule of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Sarkuhi was arrested on several occasions by the shah’s security police and sentenced to a year in jail in 1969 and 15 years in 1971. Eight years later, during the 1979 revolution incited by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Sarkuhi was released with other political prisoners.After his release Sarkuhi continued his work as a journalist, writer and literary critic. He co-founded the literary monthly Adineh in 1985. The defunct cultural journal, which often dealt with social issues such as the status of women in Iran, soon became the country’s leading opposition publication and was widely read both inside Iran and in the Iranian diaspora.In 1994 Sarkuhi was one of the writers and intellectuals who signed the famous Declaration of 134 Iranian Writers, a petition calling on the Iranian government to end censorship and guarantee freedom of opinion and expression. After signing the petition, Sarkuhi, as chief editor of the most important opposition publication, became the target of a relentless campaign of harassment by the authorities, who threatened, arrested, detained and tortured him on several occasions between 1994 and 1996.In August 1996 Sarkuhi was a guest at the home of the German cultural attaché in Tehran when intelligence agents burst into the house and arrested him and six other people. They were released the next day. He was arrested again along with 13 members of the Association of Iranian Writers in September 1996 and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, where he was held for three days.On Nov. 3, 1996, Sarkuhi was kidnapped at Tehran airport as he was about to board a flight to Germany, where he was due to join his wife and two children who had fled to Berlin at the end of 1995. While the authorities told the press that the editor was in Germany, Sarkuhi was held in solitary confinement and tortured in a secret prison for 48 days. On Dec. 20, following mounting pressure on the Iranian regime from abroad, Sarkuhi reappeared at a press conference at Tehran airport and denied that he had been held. It was believed to be a forced statement.However, he was arrested again in January 1997 after smuggling out of Iran an open letter in which he described his detention and torture at the hands of the authorities. A government spokesperson said that Sarkuhi had been arrested for trying to “leave Iran illegally,” and that he would be charged with spying for a foreign country, an offense that carries the death penalty in Iran. Following international protests, he was eventually sentenced on Sept. 18, 1997, by a secret revolutionary court to a year in prison for spreading propaganda and damaging state security.Sarkuhi was released after completing his sentence on Jan. 28, 1998, 13 months after his disappearance at Tehran airport, and finally allowed to fly to Germany on May 6, 1998. He now lives in Frankfurt, where he continues to write and speak on the situation of press freedom in Iran.Although the press in Iran has benefited somewhat from the social and political reforms of President Mohammad Khatami, who was elected in a landslide victory in May 1997, journalists still find themselves the target of attacks from the hard-line supporters of Iran’s spiritual guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Sarkuhi, however, is optimistic: “The most serious difficulty facing the clerical regime that runs Iran is not the economic crisis nor the political crisis of a growing conflict between fundamentalists and reformers,” he wrote in 1999. “The most serious challenge to the Islamic government is the change that has taken place within the minds of Iranians. A majority of the Iranian people — and not just the intelligentsia — want freedom. ... Freedom of the press, abolition of censorship and freedom of speech in Iran are now called for by one and all. A promising prospect for the written word in Iran.”

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/047173.php

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Wednesday April 26,2006
News in brief : Gooya news online reporting from ISNA :

Next Wednesday in press court , publication such as " Tavana, Zaman and " Golbang Iran " will go on trial !

The court hearing on the charges of the managing directors of three publication will be held on Wednesday May the 3rd , 2006 in division number 1083 of Tehran Public Court .
The managing directors of the above mentioned publications on Wednesday May the 3rd will appear in the court and will defend themselves from the charges.

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http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/047052.php
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Wednesday April 26, 2006
News update: Iran emroozonline reporting from ILNA :

The winner of Noble Peace Prize madame Shireen Ebadi said that ; when i was in Paris , i had a press conference and in that conference what i have said was not reported fully and therefore the people interpreted it differently. I have said : The Iranian government claims that ;she intends to use the nuclear energy in a peacefull purposes but in the international scene this claim did not recieve any ground , on this reason in order the government to prove her claim , she must expand the democracy , because in democratic states the people control the functions of the government and will not allow to take advantage from the nuclear knowledge. this part was not reported in the previous report......................

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http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/8131/
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Tuesday April 25, 2006
News in brief: Gooya newsonline reporting from the site of Emrooz:

An open letter of several journalists and managing editors from "ILNA" who have lost or resigned from their job to the president of the "Association of Syndicate journalists of Iran".

In the letter they have asked from the association to meddle into their case .On Monday March 3,2006 the board of director of ILNA ( Iran's Labour News Agency ) through its secretary annouced that due to financial difficulties the agency is going to reduce its personnel from 100 people to 57 people and as a result they have called to 15 of their personnel not to come to work , therefore this is the first step of eleminating its forces.

On the reason why they haven't spoke about this issue earlier, they indicated that they did not wanted to ruin the image of the agency, but as time past the board and the general manager on March 16 reported that the positions that have effected were "unnecessary" and "unimportant" , while everyone knows that the expelled personnels are the most experienced in the field of newspapers and as well by dismissing them they have not only violated their rights but also ruined their personalities.

The expelled personnel demanded from the association to investigate the situation and to look into their rights.

ILNA has been active for more than three years. In the letter they have indicated that ; The salary of the journalists were only 150,000 Tuman (less than 200 dollar) and many of its editors were recieving only 160,000 tuman. What is unfortunate and painful is that the general managers of this agency are members of the labour union ( Khaneh Kargar) and are supposed to defend the rights of labourers. It is needed to say that the majority of the journalists and reporters working in this agency are not insured. ...... and the personnel that have lost their jobs are the most devoted journalists by doing hard work ...... it is unfair that the board will order to its secretary to call one by one and tell them not to come to work, just like that , it is immoral , this is unfair , without even thanking them for their dedication and services .They are planning to lay off 40 people and they are doing it step by step.
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Link to this news:
http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/047037.php

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Monday, April 24, 2006


Monday April 24 , 2006
News in brief- Iran Emroozonline reporting from ILNA :

Emad Baghi's letter to: Head of judiciary power and parliamentary commission on judiciary .
Emad Baghi is the president of the "Association in Defense of Prisoners Rights" .

Stop the executions !
In recent years our country Iran has been part of three countries that had the most number of execution in the world. During the last year on an average an execution order have been issued or delivered .
Few days ago the media published news about the order for execution of 12 people in the Evin prison, but 2 people out of 12 were forgiven by the prents of the victimes .

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news/more/8082/

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Monday April24,2006
News in brief- Gooya News reporting from ISNA :

Mr. Ramazan Haji-Mashhadi , a media lawyer believes that : The legal problems the media faces is the same problems that exists in the present press law , which in this same frame, the media must be the mirror of the public thoughts.

Mr. Ramazan Hajimashadi in speaking with ISNA believes that : The media after a relative freedom that was already existed , practically became relatively stegnant by occasional closure and the writers and managing directors of the newspapers in a way started self censoring .

He added : With the existance of a new jury which the lawyers and the legal society are critical to them , still there are problems in the media law. The media law does not recognize the same rights that it provides for managing directors of the newspapers to writers and journalist and deals with them like a criminal.

This lawyer emphasized : According to the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights and the international covenants which we have joined , the press are free in expressing the problems and must show the problems of the society without fear from any officials .
He also said : With the present media law , practically there is no job security based on the constitution and universal declaration of human rights for the media employees. The example for this is the many journalists that have lost their job after the closure of thier newspapers and also practically there is no social security for them.

Mr. Mashadi then spoke about the existance of vacuums of law in the field of media and the non-existance of a pioneer , modern , efficient law based on present time .

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/8084/

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Friday, April 21, 2006


Saturday April 22, 2006
News in brief- Roozonline reporting from Farance Press:





Ebadi is worried of military attack by America!

Shireen Ebadi the Noble Peace Prize winner of the year 2003, on Wednesday in a press conference in Berlin expressed her worries on the probability of military attack by America on Iran.

This human rights defender who is in fact angry about this, in this regard have said: "Despite of all the criticism that are legitimate about Iran , but we do not want in any way the foot of an American soldier land in Iran's soil " .

In her return from US just last week , she said that the public openion of Americans is " To get ready for an attack on Iran " , while a year before the war on Iraq the American public were thinking the same but this time we dont know if it is a psychological war or a real war ".
She also added that : The government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not recognize her organization (The Association of Human Rights Defenders) like Mr. Mohammad Khatami the reformist president who also did not recognize.

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Link to this news:
http://r0ozonline.com/01newsstory/015136.shtml

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Friday April 21,2006
News update- Gooya newsonline reporting from ISNA :




Gold pen will be awarded to Ganji !

The spokesperson for the "Association in Defense of Freedom of Press in Iran " reported that the central council of the association have decided to present the Year 1384 ( Iranian calendar starts with the birth of prophet Mohammad ) the last years award to Akbar Ganji .

Mr. Mashaulah Shamsolvaezin in speaking with ISNA news agency have said: The central council of the "Association in Defense of Freedom of Press" in its recent session have decided for the valuable services of Mr. Ganji to the freedom of expression and its trend in Iran and also his resistance and persistance in this regard and enduring many years of imprisonment and pressure as well as depriviation from working in media, to present him with the gold pen of year 1384 .

The ceremony to present Mr. Ganji with gold pen will take place on the world press freedom day (May the 3rd) . Mr. Shamsulvaezin also said that; the association soon will hold its extraordinary general meeting for few amendment to its constitution .
Mr. Shamsolvaezin also said that ; the Association in Defense of Press Freedom is worried about the trend of the dismissal of several journalists from the news sites for what has been alleged as the political tendencies .

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/8016/

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Friday April 21, 2006
News update- Gooya news reporting from "Advar News" :





The students of Rejaei University in their 9th days of strike !

With the announcement of the death of a student, the university campus become inflamed !

Advar News : This morning a girl student died in Rejaei University !
It has been reported that while the strike and protest gathering has entered in its 9th days , the death of a girl student in physical education class has inflamed the students protest.
Omid Kamani the chair of the students union of this university in speaking with Advar News reporter said: " This morning ( Wednesday ) on the 9th days of students protest a girl student in her PE class had a brain stroke and unfortunately died".

He added that : Because of her physical problems she had requested from the university not to take this subject but due to the universities' bureaucracy her request was delayed .This shows that the university officials are unfit to the job.One of the students demand is the president of the university to resign.

In the meantime, the professors of the university officially announced that from this coming Saturday they will not attend to their classes and will instead join with students. It has been said that; the professors have criticised the action of the universitys president.The employees of the university also in a statement supported the students demands.

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/046871.php

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Tuesday April 18,2006
News in brief- Iran Emroozonlie reporting from Iran:

Mr. Abolfazl Vesali the editor in chief of " Nedaye Azarabadegan" is detained !

In disclosing about a documented profiteering of several trilion "Rials" * from the public resources, Mr. Abolfazl Vesali the editor in chief of " Nedaye Azarabadegan" newspaper is detained by the order of prosecutor from the division number 5 of the public prosecution in the city of Tabriz .

The editor in chief of " Nedaye Azarabadegan " newspaper, despite of having strong reason and documents about this profiteering of public assets was interrogated for three days and then was detained .

In this grand and unprecedented profiteering in the province of Azarbayejan , prominant people like the ex-minister of housing and city building and also the president of international exhibition in the city of Tabriz played an important part.

Mr. Vesali the editor in chief of " Nedaye Azarabadegan " newspaper during his interrogation repeatedly said : Despite of death threats and judiciary pressures , i will endure all difficulties and sufferings in fighting with those who violate the rights of this oppressed people.

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/7957/

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Monday, April 17, 2006



Monday April 18,2006
News in Brief- Roozonline reporting:

5th days of strike by the students of "Rejaie Teachers Training University" in Tehran !
In this strike the employees of the university also joined the students. It's been said that the students went on strike because the president of the university is trying to ignore their union demands.
The strike started on the evening of last Wedensday .The students issued a statement and demanded that Mr. Sadrnejad the president to resign from his post .This is the 3rd students protest in a week with the same demand.
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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://r0ozonline.com/01newsstory/015071.shtml

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Monday April 17,2006
News update- Gooya newsonline reporting from " Kanoon Zanane Irani " ( Association of Iranian Women):
Reports from Nazanin Khosrvani -

Elham Afrutan's father : There is no news for the release of my daughter , I'm worried !

While it was said that Ms. Shadi Sadr has accepted the case of Ms. Elham Afrutan , but a little while ago news agencies quoting from Mr. Abdolsamad Khoramshahi as the lawyer of Elham Afrutan announced that her court hearing will take place on May the 9th. Aabout this changes i contacted to her family and lawyer , this time i spoke with Elham's father.
"Mohammad Afrutan" the father of Elaham in response to my question about her daughter's situation said: " I don't know what is the situation of my daughter's case , I only know that her lawyer have been changed " . Mr. Afrutan was also not aware of the change of lawyer: "I do not know the reason for this change , they only told me that the lawyer of Elham has been changed, they haven't told me anything else".
Elham's father have met her daughter when he came to Tehran for two weeks and each Tuesday she has right for visitation . Her father said that she is fine and she always keeps in touch .
Her lawyer Mr. Khoramshahi said that : She is a young lady who has interest to writing on social problems and satyre and its now two years that she has started working as journalist, aside from this , i think she diden't have had any ill-intention to about including the article in the newspaper and it was because she did not pay attention to the article. Elham believes that so far she did not enterd into the political area .
Elham became happy when she heard that Ms. Shadi Sadr is going to defend her , now the change of the lawyer seems odd. And an informed source have said that , they have scared Elham for accepting Shadi Sadr as her lawyer and told her that with her , her case might become more complicated , therefore she prefered to ask Khoramshahi to be her lawyer.

It is needed to say that : Ms. Elham Afrutan is an editorial staff of the " Tamadon Hormozgan" newspaper . She and her colleague Mr. Mohsen Dorostkar are going to have their trial on May the 9th, 2006 in division number 26 of the court of revolution.She is accused of " action against national security" and insult to the founder of Islamic Republic and other officials.

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Link to this news:
http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/046683.php

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Friday, April 14, 2006


Friday April 14, 2006
News in brief -

Ahmad Batebi the student who became known when he carried a blood tainted T-shirt 7 years ago during student uprising in Iran and his picture was published on the cover pge of the " Economist " magazin and was arrested and was sentenced to death by the division number 13 of the supreme court and later because of the agreement of Kameneie the Islamic Republic leader the sentence was reduced to 15 years imprisonment, but now again the court wants to return the order back to the death sentence. Mr. Bahramian the lawyer of Batebi have said that when my client was sentenced to death i protested to that and later the leader reduced it to 15 years imprisonment therefore my client must spend 15 years in prison.

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/7899/

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On Wednesday April 12 , 2006 students of Alameh University staged their biggest rally yet inside the university in protest to the newly appointed president. Apparently the new president in his speech impolitely insulted a woman student by not answering to her question and asked her to keep silent and because of this the students then left the place and made a student chain and continued their protest and requested for his apology. Another student asked of militarization of university campuses and the presence of security agents and the activity of deciplinary committee.
The students were chanting the following slogans :
The inefficient president must resign!
The appointed president , resign, resign!
An elected president is our right!
"Shariati" , come out , come out !
Ayatollah Shariati is the new appointed president.

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Link to this news:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/7889/

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The judiciary ordered and prevented again the annual general meeting of the Association of Writers in Iran !
Saeid Mortazavi,Tehran public prosecutor prevented the annual general gathering of the "Association of Writers in Iran" .
The Association of Writers in Iran released a communique and explained that:
The freedom loving people of Iran
On the occasion of AGM for the "Association of Writers in Iran"
for electing the new board members after four years pause,and because of necessity we gathered in a personal residential property and while majority of members were present, but the judiciary regulator together with security forces with an order from Tehran public prosecutor attended the place and prevented the session.
The Association of Writers in Iran despite of all the pressure will continue to defend the freedom of expression and democratic freedom.
Association of Writers in Iran

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http://news.gooya.eu/politics/archives/046657.php

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Friday April 14,2006
News update-



Ganji, meeting with journalists and bloggers !

IRAN WATCH CANADA : According to one blogger ( Zan Nevesht ) : "Ganji was still talking appetizingly and fast like during the time of " Kian " and " Sobhe Emrooz " seven years ago, when there was some freedom of expression, and is still collects his wits , uses satire , laughs and is energetic , as if he did not spent many years alone in solitary confinement and not spoken and lived with any. I'm talking about Ganji because with several friends who are blogger we went to see him.First we were few and therefore we sat on chairs, he asked about weblogs; we just laugh , then we became more and sat on the floor , again he asked about weblogs , at this time one of our blogger ( Alpar ) started speaking about the history of weblogs , we then cut him off and again laughed and didn't say anything , for the third time he asked how many people visits to your weblogs ? And we were proudly saying two thousands, and another friend was saying five thousands and I was keeping silence and looking at a man who's books and articles had hundreds of thousand reader and may be more. Yes , it was a good night, and we spoke and Ganji said that one of the goal is feminism . We ate a lot of fruit because Ganji can only eat fruit and drink tea at this time and we took a group picture but we missed Masumeh Shafiei the wife of Ganji who was not present.

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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression ( CJFE ) posted this about Ganji in their monthly bulletin :

Akbar Ganji – Iran
After six years of imprisonment and two hunger strikes in Tehran’s Evin prison, 2000 International Press Freedom Award winner Akbar Ganji has been released. Ganji was arrested in 1999 for writing a series of articles connecting high-level Iranian officials to the murders of several intellectuals. Before he was imprisoned, he worked as an investigative journalist for several reformist papers. We hope that Akbar Ganji will finally have the chance to accept his award in person now that he is free.

CJFE posted this press release about the case: http://www.cjfe.org/releases/2006/20032006ganji.html

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Tuesday April 12,2006
News in brief- Gooya news reporting from ISNA :

On 23rd of April in press court,publication such as " Asia ","Donya " , " Tapesh","Donyaye Karateh" and " Etelaat Pezeshki " will face their trial.

The trial will take place in division number 76 of Tehran penal court with the presence of jury and the court will be an open one. The managing directors of these five publication will face trial.
Judge Sarami said that there are 20 cases left to look at , it's not that much including cases from the past like "Iran" newspaper and " Yase Nou ".

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Link to this news in Farsi:
http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/046441.php

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Monday, April 10, 2006


Monday April 10,2006

News Update- Shargh online :








Akbar Ganji together with his wife Ms. Masumeh Shafiei have visited the " Shargh " newspapers office and met with journalists and employees of this newspaper.

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Monday April 10,2006
















Person or pesons have vandalized the grave of " Ahmad Shamlu " the great poet of Iran !

This is the third time . The grave stone has been broken and part of his signature was stollen . The Association of Writers in Iran protested to this action.

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Monday April 10,2006
News in brief-Gooya newsonline reporting from "ISNA ":

Mr. Mostafa Kzazi the managing director of the " Sedaye Edalat " newspaper in the court !

Mr. Mostafa Kzazi in his defense have said:
The officials must not feel that anyone who looks into their work critically , is trying to remove them from the power.
Mr. Kzazi said that : Its 22 years that we publish "Sedaye Edalat" and its only six years that it is being published like a newspaper, and in the past it was published like a weekly and monthly magazin, ...........
The managing director is charged with such writing as : " The political structure of the country produces despotism " , "We are ready to debate with guardian councile ", " We demand for an end to the policy of genocide on journalists " ,........
The court hearing was held in the division number 76 of the Tehran penal court and
Mr. Gholami was the representative of the prosecutor and Mr. Sarami was the presiding judge .

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Monday April 10,2006
News in brief - Gooya newsonline reporting from " Emrooz":

In the begining of New Year tens of journalists were dismissed from " ILNA " :

they dismissed the journalists on the pretext of financial shortage and lowering the employees.
More than one third of the employees that have been dismissed are from political department of Iran Labour News Agency known as ILNA .
There are news that several ILNA's officials in protest to this action of management have resigned.

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Monday April 10,2006
News in Brief- Gooya newsonline reporting from "Roozna " :

Mr. Vahid Poorostad the editorial central council member of the " Etemade Meli " newspaper was attacked and beaten by unknown people !

Mr. Vahid Poorostad was attacked when he left the newspaper office. In this attack he was beaten . The following report is from his own weblog:
"When they put knife under my throat , I lost control of myself , the devil manner person who savagely attacked me from behind and before i notice i felt the sharpness of a knife under my throat and on that moment time was stoped for me !
Last night at 10:00pm my work at newspaper office was finished and like always i walked the short distance from newspaper- "Karimkhan" bridge- and my home in "Villa" , i was walking along the "Sepahbod Gharenay " street when Mr. Heidari a colleague stoped his car and asked me to ride but i thanked him and he left. While i was walking on the side walk toward "Villa" i felt someone following me from behind.
Around 400 meters to Villa and alongside of the wall of a church i felt a severe blow to my back and a knife under my throat and the assailant was saying isf you say something i'll kill you!
At this time I lost control of myself and the time was stopped for me, I dont remember anything , i only remember that i grappled and fell on the ground and shouted ....and something went out of my hand , my glasses fell but i saw a motorcycle stopped and a man with a knife rode on the motorcycle and they left the place quickely.
An old man approached and helped me to collect the books that i was carrying at the time from the ground.
I was shocked and trembling , all of a sudden i felt that the knife is in my hand . I was shaking more when i noticed this, and i do not know how the knife came to be in my hand. I looked in my pocket and found my cell phone and called Dr. Hagh shenas the managing director of the newspaper.I dont know what i have told him , soon i saw Mr. Poorazizi - Ghorbancheh and another colleague came with fear on their face. they tried to find my glasses , Mr. Poorazizi brought his car to the sidewalk and with the light on we were able to find my glasses.Then my colleagues brought me to the office of newspaper, then police came and took note of the incident , and now i only have some pain on my legs and on the side of my body other than that i'm fine.

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Sunday, April 09, 2006


Sunday April 9,2006

Nik's Cartoon on Ganji's freedom

News update: IRAN WATCH CANADA learned from ILNA :

Nikahang Kowsar the Iranian Cartoonist who lives in Canada, in his absence in Iran was sentenced to four months jail !

Nikahang Kowsar the cartoonist of the banned reformists newspapers such as " Sobhe Emrooz " , in this morning was sentenced to four months prison ( which will be on hold for up to two years) by the division 1083 of the Tehran public court. The presiding judge was judge Hoseinian.
Nik is charged with defamation and insult to Mr. Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi the head of the "Educational Institute of Emam Khomeini " and Mr. Ali Larijani the former president of " Seda Va Sima " ( Radio - Television of IRI ) for comparing him with the ministry of information agent Saeed Emami who have masterminded the " Chain murdering " of Iranian intellectuals and a few other charges .
Nikahang was absent in this court due to his illness and currently lives in Canada but his lawyer instead was in the court .

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Friday, April 07, 2006

Friday April 7,2006
News from Iran - Gooya News reporting from Advar News :

Mr. Hamid Reza Mohammadi who was arrested in March 8,2005 on the charges of colaboration with some of the opposition group outside of Iran , is still in provisional detention in Evin prison .
It is needed to say that at present because of not being able to prepare the amount of the bail which is hundred and fifty million Tuman ( 700 Tuman is equal to 1 Canadian dollar ) , he is still in prison .

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http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/046349.php

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Thursday, April 06, 2006

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Thursday April 6, 2006
News in brief:

In news IRAN WATCH CANADA have noticed that Islamic Republic of Iran has put her name as a candidate to seat in the UN Human Rights Councile ?!

Why UN must not allow Islamic Republic of Iran to seat in UN Human Rights Council?

According to RSF under Islamic Republic , Iran is the biggest jail for journalists ,and the officials in this regime are almost all the human rights violators and the level of discrimination is very high in their blood. In this regard one must see the situation of religious minorities like Bahai's , jewish and christian Armanians and others....... One must see the regimes policy towards women and political oppositions , one must see the policy of this regime towards national minorities like Kurdish, Azari and baluchi ..........
How can a regime such as this intend to bother herself to put her name as a candidate to seat in UN Human Rights coucil?
This regime inside Iran does remove or ban the cadidacy of any person for such election as presidency, parliamentary and mayoral or...........
In short : This regime is a big violator of human rights, period.

Link to this news:
http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/046286.php

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In another news IRAN WATCH CANADA have come to know that the life of a women is in great danger and the Islamic Republic regimes judiciary intend to execute this woman .

Ms. Fatemeh Haghighatpazhuh is guilty of killing her husband . Apparently after divorsing from her first husband she married with another man who was a drug addict and one night she saw that her second husband came out from her teenage daughters room and he wasalso telling her that he lost her daughter in a gambling to another person , after hearing this she killd him and now she faces the murder charges .
She needs the support of human rights organizations and women's rights organizations.Write your letters to Iran's Judiciary power to save her life.

Link to this news:
http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/046279.php

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In news from Iran , IRAN WATCH CANADA found out that lawyer and human rights defender Dr. Abdolfatah Soltani is going to have his court hearing on the charges put upon him on the 19th of April , 2006.
Link to this news:
http://1384.g00ya.com/politics/archives/046237.php

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Thursday April 6,2006
News Update: Iran Emroozonline reporting from " Advar News" :







Ganji : I'm not going to keep silence !

On Wednesday evening several members of the " Advar Tahkim " a student organization met Ganji to express their happiness for his release after six years imprisonment and also to extend their greeting for the New Year.
Ganji in this meeting said that he is not intended to keep silence and he also expressed his greeting to all those who have endured difficulties in supporting him during his hunger strike.
He said that at present there are two modle of government in front of the people; One is the modle of constitutional power and the other is the republican modle and he intends to write more about republican manifesto.
Ganji in this meeting expressed that; in order to achieve or gain something you have to endure the hardship and nothing will come easy.

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http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/7757/
http://releaseganji.net/hostednews.php#1221

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Monday, April 03, 2006


Monday April 3,2006
News Update:
Gooya newsonline reporting from ILNA :

Mr. Yusef Molaei the lawyer of Akbar Ganji : Ganji's conviction time has ended and it means he is free !
Yusef Molaei in speaking with ILNA have said: The presence of my client outside of prison is not violation of regulation and law , therefore my client is outside of prison based on regulation and laws.
This is because Mr. Mahmoud Salarkia the deputy in charge of Tehran prosecutor's prisons previousely have said to ILNA's reporter that : With the consent of Tehran's prosecutor , Ganji went to a 7 days vacation and this vacation ended on March 25th and he had to show himself to the prison , which he diden't , these absence will be calculated.
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Monday April 3,2006
Aftab News :









Spring season , the begining of the winter sleep of Iran's press !

This year on the new year days and on the Norouz holidays ( Which is for 13 days ) the press activities in Iran was off for two weeks . The importance of this event is because it happens in the begining of the New Years, which is an exception in the world press , especially in this interconnected world and the non-stop efforts to deliver information to the public.Although this exception is a time of rest for Iranian journalists and reporters who work hard and have less income , but at the same time can be seen as unprofessional and even dangerous . The following is the openions of several professional in this field:

Mr. Arghandehpour : The independent newspapers have many restrictions !The editor of the banned " Eqbal " newspaper said: " As far as i know ,nowhere in the world the holidays for print press is like in Iran , even in our neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Turkey on holidays we see the continious publication with high circulation". He also said that: "When delivering information stops it effects the government although the entire government is on holiday but this doesn't mean that nothing is happening in the country".Mr. Mashaullah

Shamsolvaezin , the spokperson for the" Association in Defense of Press Freedom" :He called Iran as an exceptional country which contrary to other countries during the holidays the newspapers are not being published. He said prior to the revolution the New Years holiday was only 4 days but after the revolution it increased by 4 times( 15 Days) and as a result many active parts of the society was also shut down , but the worse of it is the long closure of print media.He also spoke about the danger of not publishing newspapers at the time of lots of news about Iran.He then urged the print media despite of restrictions to publish the news and end to this vacum .

Mr. Mohammad javad Haghshenas , The managing director of the "Etemade Meli " newspaper:He warrned about the closure of the print media during the New Year holidays.He said the spring for newspapers is the begining of winter sleep.

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http://jomhouri.com/a/00news/005494.php

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Saturday April 1,2006
News in brief - Gooya Newsonline Reporting from "Advar News":

Five political activists from the province of Azarbayjan have been detained !

The police forces from the city of "Ahar " today Friday March 31st have arrested five political activists.

According to the news that we have recieved at first Mr. Moharam Kamrani and Mr. Ebrahim Rashidi, both member of the editorial board of " Oyanish " publication were arrested and then they were transfered to the police station in the city of Ahar and while in there , they were interrogated .

Following to the arrest of Mr. Kamrani and Rashidi , three political activists of the city; Mr. Aslan Kamrani student from the faculty of law and the managing editor of a student publication in the University of Zahedan , Mr. Asgar Nouri the managing editor of " Birlik" a student publication in Alameh University and Jaber Musavi a political activist attended to the police station to follow up the arrest of the first two person , where they were also arrested in the same place and are detaind.

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Saturday April 1,2006
News in brief: Gooya News reporting from "Advar" News:

The news site of " Advar News " have been filtered in many parts of the country !

According to the news that we have recieved; the news site of " Advar News " in the province of Khuzestan,Isfehan ,Kerman and most other parts of the country have been censored and as well filtered.
In the capital city of Tehran the site of " Advar News " is still available to its readers.

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