Greeting to all blogger for World Blog Day !

Aug. 31 , 08 is the world blog day . 3108 read as blog .

Read more in Farsi:

http://aliha.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/lets-in-blogday-gift-to-all/

One day after IRAN WATCH CANADA warned about the danger which is threatening the life of Farzad Kamangar the Kurdish teacher and human rights activist ,news that are coming from Iran is very shocking.

The news says it all:

Farzad Kamangar is in danger/ Kamangar has been transfered to the solitary confinment!?

Recently the Islamic Republic regime has transfered Farzad Kamangar and Ali Heidarian from Rejaei Shahr prison to security ward number 209 in Evin prison. He is not alowed to use telephone and meet anyone. Only last week his family under high security measure were able to meet him.

We know that recently several prisoners were sent to the gallows in Evin prison from this security ward.

Really the Islamic Republic is going to sent this innocent Kurdish teacher and human rights activist to the gallows?

Iran has more than one million unionized teacher . Will the teachers in Iran keep silence?

Link to this news:

http://www.akhbar-rooz.com/news.jsp?essayId=16896

United voice of the :

Iranian students, workers, women, teachers for Human Rights & Democracy !

"Iran for all Iranian"

Human rights violations in Iran by the Islamic Republic didn't stop with the murder of Zahra Kazemi , it continous everyday in Iran . Please dont close your eyes when dealing with the Islamic Republic in Iran.

Do not forget the Kurdish teacher and human rights advocate Farzad Kamangar and other Kurdish human rights activists who are currently in the Islamic Republic prisons. Islamic Republic regime sentenced Farzad Kamangar the Kurdish teacher to death. This must stop.

Farzad's life is in great danger.

More than 4000 political prisoners were executed by the Islamic Republic and buried in a mass grave in Khavaran cemetery!
This morning ( Friday Aug. 29,2008 ), the family members and friends of those who have been executed in a mass execution on 1988 in Iranian prisons by the Islamic Republic and with the direct order by Khomeini have attended in Khavaran cemetery at the South East part of Tehran to keep the memory of their loved one alive , but were banned to enter into the cemetery by the police forces and were beaten by the plain cloths or the glasses of their car were broken . As a result of this many of these people have been arrested and at present their identity are not known.

The official number of political prisoners who have been executed in mass execution are not known , but unofficial number which is prepared by the victims families and political organizations indicate that more than 4000 have been executed.

Link to this news:

http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/16586/

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/08/075909.php

Northern Iran -Rice plantation

For Immediate Release
Iran: Executions of Juvenile Offenders RisingIran Executes Sixth Juvenile Offender This Year, 26th Since 2005
(New York, August 27, 2008) –
Calling Iran’s execution on August 26, 2008 of juvenile offender Behnam Zare abhorrent, Human Rights Watch urged the Iranian judiciary to immediately commute the sentences of more than 130 other prisoners facing death for crimes committed while children.
Zare is the sixth juvenile offender Iran has executed this year. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender in 2008. Since January 2005, Iran has executed at least 26 juvenile offenders. During the same period, only four other countries – Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, and Pakistan – are known to have executed any juvenile offenders, with a combined total of six such executions in the four countries.
“Iran leads the world in executing juvenile offenders” said Clarisa Bencomo, researcher on children’s rights in the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. “Everywhere else, countries are moving to end this abhorrent practice, but in Iran the numbers of death sentences seem to be increasing.”
As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is obligated to prohibit executions of persons under 18 at the time of the crime.
Branch 5 of the Fars Criminal Court had sentenced Zare to death on November 13, 2005, for a murder committed on April 21, 2005, when he was 16. Branch 33 of the Supreme Court upheld the ruling on May 14, 2007. Authorities at Shiraz Prison executed Zare on August 26, 2008.
Zare’s family and his lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, only learned of Zare’s execution after the fact, although Iranian law requires that the lawyer be notified 48 hours before the execution. Zare’s family and lawyer had been trying to reach a settlement with the victim’s family at the time of the execution.
Zare’s execution closely follows the execution of juvenile offender Seyyed Reza Hejazi at Isfahan Central Prison on August 19, 2008. Branch 106 of the Isfahan General Court had convicted Hejazi of murder on November 14, 2005, for his role in a 2003 fight involving several people. Hejazi was 15 at the time of the crime, and repeatedly told authorities that he had not intended to kill the victim.
As in the case of Zare, the authorities did not notify Hejazi’s lawyer, also Mohammad Mostafaei, 48 hours prior to the execution. Instead, Mostafaei learned of the pending execution from a journalist the night before. Prison authorities refused to allow Mostafaei to visit Hejazi the morning of the execution, and he eventually left after a prison official told him the execution had been stayed. Instead, prison officials executed Hejazi an hour later.
“Killing people for crimes committed as children provides neither justice nor safety for Iranian society,” Bencomo said. “The Iranian authorities’ willingness to lie to lawyers and to deprive families of a last chance to see their loved ones only underscores the depravity of these executions.”
On July 8, 2008, Human Rights Watch and 23 other major international and regional human rights organizations called on Iran to halt juvenile executions (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/07/07/iran19270.htm).

UPDATE - IRAN
26 August 2008
Ailing journalist placed in solitary confinement; Kurdish journalist
released on bail, still facing trial
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced active concern about the
treatment of journalist and human rights activist Emadoldin Baghi who
earlier this month was placed in an isolation cell in Evin prison, Tehran
instead of being transferred to a hospital.
Baghi was at the start of 2008 released on licence because of a heart
condition but was recalled to jail in April against the advice of doctors.
While free, he wrote to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi
Shahrudi, to complain of the appalling prison conditions in the notorious
Evin jail.
"Emadoldin Baghi is paying the price for his outspokenness," the worldwide
press freedom organisation said. "He has frequently criticised the regime's
officials, some of whom have been appointed to top level positions, such as
intelligence minister Mohseni Ejehi and the prosecutor general Dori
Najafabadi."
"He is being discriminated against when his poor health means he should be
treated in hospital," it added.
Baghi contacted his wife, Fatemeh Kamali Ahmad Sarahi, on 9 August to
inform her that the prison doctor had authorised his transfer to a hospital
in Tehran for further treatment. A few hours later the journalist called
her again to say that he had been admitted to Section 209 of the jail, a
special wing under the control of the intelligence services.
When his wife was allowed to see him on 18 August, he appeared weakened and
complained to her of breathing difficulties as a result of being locked in
an insalubrious cell. Baghi also told her that he had refused to undergo
any further interrogation. "He will no longer put up with being questioned
bound and blindfolded," she told Reporters Without Borders.
In another case, freelance journalist Saman Rasulpur, 23, was released on
14 August on payment of bail of ten million tumen (approx. 7,000 euros),
while awaiting his trial. He was arrested on 27 July at his home in the
city of Mahabad in Kurdistan, for taking part in a demonstration in protest
at death sentences passed against journalists Adnan Hassanpur and
Abdolvahed "Hiva" Botimar as well as a Kurdish teacher. Since his release,
Rasulpur has been summoned on several occasions by intelligence ministry
agents.

Updates the Baghi case: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/93700
Updates the Rasulpur case: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/96102

No to capital punishment !

Islamic Republic regime in Iran ranks number one in the world for sending the young offenders to the gallows.At present 25 young offenders are awaiting their execution.

This morning(Tuesday Aug. 26,2008) Behnam Zare a young crime offender was sent to the gallows . Islamic Republic judiciary didn't bother to let his lawyer and family know about the execution. (Islamic Republic way)

Behnam commited the crime when he was only 16 years old.Behnam was in the first year of high school when he found himself in prison. The fight between the victim and Behnam started on pegion . Based on the story; the victim throw ston to Behnam's pegion which caused the fight and as a result the victim died . Behnam was sent to the gallows in "Shiraz Adelabad" prison.

Link to this news:

http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/16561/

Did we forget Emad Baghi?

Emad has been in prison for almost a year now.Iran Watch Canada has reported about his arrest at the time.

Emad Baghi is the president of the "Association in Defence of the rights of Prisoners " in Iran and a human rights advocate. He is also an investigative journalist and writer.

Last Sunday a meeting was held at the home of Baghi by the "committee on arbiterary arrest in Iran" - . This meeting was organized by the commission on human rights of the "Mosharekat Party" .

Isa Saharkhiz an Iranian journalist writes about Baghi:

"News that are coming from Evin prison and from the ward number 209 where they have kept Baghi in there again isn't good. The news that are brought by the childeren and wife of this brave journalist after their last meeting with him is regrettable and worrisome."

http://asre-nou.net/1387/mordad/31/m-baghi.html

Emadeddin Baghi is a "prominent Iranian rights activist and leading prisoners' rights advocate," and a "renowned Iranian investigative journalist." He is the founder and head of the Committee for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and the Society of Right to Life Guardians in Iran and the author of twenty books, six of which have been banned. [1] In 2000, Baghi was imprisoned in connection with his expose writings on the Chain murders of Iran, and served two years. [2] He was imprisoned again in late 2007 for another year on ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emadeddin_Baghi

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/10/16/iran17105.htm

Read more news in English about Iran:
http://www.roozonline.com/english/
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/
http://www.iranhr.net/
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/mena/iran.html
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13515.html
http://www.parstimes.com/rights/
http://mehr.org/
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Rights-Iran-
Relativism-Pennsylvania/dp/081223605X
http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/index.htm
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people6/Ebadi/ebadi-con0.html
http://iran-human-rights.blogspot.com/
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_
content&task=blogcategory&id=5
http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-
2006/july-2006/petition_13706.shtml
http://www.humanrightsblog.org/archives/cat_iran.html
http://www.khrp.org/content/view/367/2/

US Citizen is Ahmadinejad’s Advisor
Appointment of Hamid Mowlana as Advisor -

2008.08.25 -Arash Motamed

Once, an editor of Iran’s Hamshahri newspaper wrote that if anyone stopped over at ‎London’s Heathrow airport, he would be held on suspicion of being a spy. Today, Hamid ‎Mowlana who is the director of the International Communications Program at American ‎University in Washington, DC, has stirred up protests among the right-wing allies of ‎Iran’s president Ahmadinejad because he was recently appointed as his advisor.‎‎ ‎Mowlana’s appointment was announced last Wednesday in Iran’s state-run newspaper ‎Jame Jam.‎
Tabnak website, which belongs to Iran’s former Passdaran Revolutionary Guards ‎commander Mohsen Rezai, wrote on the “appointment of an American citizen” to be ‎Ahmadinejad’s advisor, “The appointment of professor Hamid Mowlana, a US citizen ‎and the founder of American University’s International Communication Program has ‎raised questions.”‎
Tabnak continues, “According to article 989 of Iran’s civil code, any Iranian who ‎acquires the nationality of another country without due process, his foreign citizenship is ‎null and void and he will continue to be recognized as an Iranian national, but … he will ‎be deprived of his right to serve at the cabinet ministerial level, as a deputy minister, ‎become a member of the Majlis legislative assembly, become a member of the provincial ‎and town councils, and any other government posts.”‎
The site goes on to say that “a person’s nationality belongs to the state and a person who ‎is a national of a country, enjoys rights and responsibilities thereof, and because of this ‎the relationship between the person and the state is that of legal, spiritual with a political ‎nature. One of the attributes of this relationship between the person and the state is that ‎he enjoys the political support of his nationality state when he is in foreign territory. For ‎example, subservience to US constitution and other laws of the country is a condition for ‎becoming a US citizen.”‎
Tabnak then presents its reasons why for Hamid Mowlana, a US citizen, to be appointed ‎an advisor to Iran’s president Ahmadinejad causes legal issues. For example it quotes the ‎oath of allegiance that all naturalized citizens in the US have to take to become American ‎citizens adding that they pledge to take up arms to defend the US whenever called upon, ‎suggesting that Mowlana has pledged allegiance to another government and state, thus ‎not qualifying to hold public office in Iran.‎
The website also quotes Ahmadinejad to have told the Minister of the Interior and ‎members of the state inspectorate about the qualifications of individuals who wished to ‎run for the eight Majlis, saying, “A person who does not accept the [Iranian] state, and is ‎not sensitive to the country’s national interest and its constitution, is not qualified to ‎become a Majlis member.” These remarks by the president contradict Mowlana’s ‎qualifications to hold public office in Iran because he has pledged to defend the US, and ‎take up arms in its defense if necessary.‎
Hamid Mowlana had said earlier that president Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia ‎University last year when the later was visiting the US to attend a UN meeting was held ‎on his recommendation. Some believe that some topics such as the disintegration of the ‎US and the quoting of informed sources in the US, come from and are references to ‎Mowlana who has made such recommendations to Iran’s president. Some in Iran ‎question the legality of the relationship between Ahmadinejad and Mowlana, who came ‎about a few months ago, and stress that it is illegal and that the president must explain his ‎relationship to the Majlis.‎
Tabnak continues, “A large site has been put at Mowlana’s disposal in the Vanak Circle ‎district of Tehran for him to establish his cultural foundation.”‎
Mowlana has been writing articles in Iran’s state-run newspaper Keyhan for years in ‎which he has been critical of the ideas of liberal democracy and the reformists.‎

Link to this news:

http://www.roozonline.com/english/

archives/2008/08/us_citizen_is_ahmadinejads_adv.html

Major violators of the human rights in Iran!

The political structure of the Islamic Republic in Iran :

As in the picture-

Leader of the Islamic Republic: In the middle - Seyed Ali Khameneei ( Act as the successor to khomeini)

Right side of the leader : Hashemi Rafsanjani acting as the head of the "Khebregane rahbary" ( Assembly of experts) and head of the " Tashkhise Maslehat" (expedience council )

Far right of the leader : Ali Larijani , the head of the Islamic Republic parliament

Left of the leader: Ahmadinejad , the president of the Islamic Republic

Far left of the leader: Hashemi Shahrudi the head of the Islamic Republic judiciary system

The head of the "shoraye Negahban " (Guidance council) Ahmad Jannati is absent here.

Young Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has been banned from leaving Iran.

She has played in a film known as " Body of lies " by Holywood director Ridley Scott.She was invited to Holywood and she was on her way to U.S when she found out that she has been banned from leaving Iran.

While she was in the airport on her way to America , her passport was confiscated by the airport authorities.

Link to this news:

http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/16535/

Pic: left- Behnud Shojaei, Right - Actor Entezami & Parviz Parastuei

Iranian people must be proud of these actors and must support them and stand behind them against Islamic Republic injustices!

Do you remember this kid, his name is Behnud Shojaei , he is on the death row for allegedly committing a crime in a street fight.he wrote a letter to the mother of Ehsan ( Omid- the victim ) and asked her to forgive him. The letter was published in Etemad newspaper. Behnoud was 17 years old when in a street group fighting committed the crime and was sentenced to death.
Recently three prominent actors and director Ezatolah Entezami, Parviz Parastuei and Kumars Poorahmad volunteered to collect the " Diyeh" or " blood money " which the family of Behnud was unable to prepare . These three actors and director opened an account and asked the people to help save the life of this young man.
Now Tehran's prosecutor summoned these three actors for collecting the " Diyeh".
Mr. Mohammad Hossain Shamlu the prosecutor of the division number one of Tehran criminal prosecution said that: :" these individuals by creating a joint account were intended to create public sympathy to influence the people for a criminal , while this person was a murderer and his sentence is based on the " Ghesas " law ( tit for tat , blow for blow ) or retaliation law .

Link to this news:
http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2008/08/19/f7_iran_parastooi_behnood.html

Beware of :

The forged degree and diploma of the Islamic Republic officials!

Link:

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/08/075486.php

Read more on IRAN WATCH CANADA in previous post ( Tuesday Aug. 12/08).

Picture -Shahram Rafizadeh - Yaghub Mehrnahd speaking to the audience:

Islamic Republic of Iran has executed the first blogger in Iran!
When the Islamic Republic judiciary arrested the bloggers in Iran few years ago( Shahram Rafizadeh, Ruzbeh Mirebrahimi, Omid Memarian and HaniHanif Mazrui..... ), Shahram Rafizadeh was pointed out as the accused number one blogger and spent three months in prison under intense interrogation for confession.
Shahram Rafizadeh in his blog ( http://aknoononline.blogspot.com/ )protested to the execution of Yaghub Mehrnahad and wrote:

"Touching and changing the writing of Yaghub Mehrnahad in his weblog , Why? "
He added:
"The name of Yaghub Mehrnahad the civil rights activist , journalist and weblog writer will be registered now as the first weblog writer in the world in history, with his execution on the dawn of August 4, 2008 , one hundred and two years after the constitutional revolution, the name of the Islamic Republic has also been registered in the history but as the first government which have executed a weblog writer."
"I emphasize on his weblog writing because it seems not only there has been a touch to change the writing in his weblog but it was strange too, in order to dismiss him as a weblog writer. "

"Yaghub Mehrnahad in his first post on his weblog wrote:

"For years of activity in Non Governmental and people oriented organizations , I have learnt and experienced that every person need to speak and tell out one's grievances and that it would be good that person will speak to the people of the world. People of a world free from any slogan such as death to.... or long live .....and free from any language, religiouse, ethnic and geographic prejudices ........... "
"But about myself ..: I'm from the salt desert of Baluchestan and live in the city of Zahedan and i'm the president of the "Anjoman Javanane Sedaye Edalat" ( Association of the youth for justice )a Non Governmental organization and i have spent 25 spring of my life .....But i have come to join you the weblog writers , perhaps you might say that writing a weblog in our country has consequences and could face criminal charges and that the weblogers may face dangers , but i shall say those who bring charges against weblogers also call me as second class citizen..... "

Link to this article:
http://aknoononline.blogspot.com/

Link to Yaghub Mehrnahad's weblog:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060705051533/http://www.mehrnehad.blogfa.com/

Picture of mass grave in "Khavaran".

Frame picture of 6 member of the Behkish family who have been executed by the Islamic Republic in the summer of 1988.

The crime which didn't remain hiden under the soil!

(Title from www.peiknet.com-Aug.13/08)

memorial day

Crime against humanity -

How many of the Islamic Republic officials were directly involved in this crime against humanity?! IRAN WATCH CANADA

When the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 finished , they have given us the news about the execution of our sibling. With the execution of Mahmud and Mohammad- Ali six members of my family have been executed by the Islamic Republic. the framed picture of each member of the family who have been executed were displayed on the wall.With the execution of one of the son whos name was Asadolah, the family of Panje Shahi has also lost five childeren in the mass execution by the Islamic Republic. The mother of Panjeh Shahi had displayed five members of her childeren in a sigle frame on the wall. On those days the mother of Panjeh Shahi ( Mother ) used to come to our house and spoke and share her grievances with my mother. One day she asked my mom to give her the picture of my executed sibling so that a friend who have made their frame will put the picture of my sibling together in a single frame too. One or two weeks after the mother of Panjeh Shahi ( The mother ) brought for us three frame with the picture of my sibling all together.One of the frame was too big and we displayed it on the wall.
Years have gone and the big frame was on the wall, those years my father was still alive and he used to say : I have framed my childeren and put them in the wall .My mother later removed the big frame from the wall and covered it with cloths and displayed the smaller one. Few years later the smaller frame was also removed from the wall.The mother of Panjeh Shahi also later removed the frame with collective picture of her childeren from the wall. Then they again displayed the single frame of their childeren on the wall. I guess the frame with single picture was more tolerable than a collective picture in a single frame. 5-6 member of a family who have been executed in a single frame was showing the painful story of the family.On the memorial day each year we carried the big frame to "Khavaran" . One or two years ago in a memorial day the big frame was stollen by the agents of the Islamic Republic.
* Khavaran: Is the place where many of the political prisoners are buried in a mass grave.Khavaran is located in Tehran .

Continuation of environmental disaster in Iran!

Yusef Azizi Banitorf is sentenced to five years imprisonment!
He is accused of " gathering" and "help to bring disorder to national security".
Mr. Banitorf is one of the Iranian experienced journalist and writer who has written 25 books on literary fiction , history and social issues in Farsi language. He is an Iranian and many times in the past has rejected violence actions and dosn't believe the secession of Khuzestan from Iran.

The ethnic people of Khuzestan(Arab) , Kurdestan (Kurd), Bluchestan-Sistan (Baluch) and Azarbayejan(Turk) are facing systematic repression by the Islamic Republic regime this year . Repression, execution and imprisonment is the answere of the Islamic Republic to ethnic people demands .

The hero's of the " politechnic" University have been released from Evin prison.

According to a news source from Evin prison Mr. Ehsan Mansuri, Ahmad Ghasaban and Majid Tavakoli the three students after spending 15 months in Evin prison were released.

Link to this news:

http://advarnews.info/university/7713.aspx

One Degree, Twenty Errors
Bloggers Expose Ahmadinejad ‎ - 2008.08.12
‎Roozonline- Mahboubeh Niknahad
While Ahmadinejad’s deputy in legal affairs has threatened to file charges against those ‎who have exposed the forged nature of the new interior minister’s doctoral degree, ‎several blogs and news websites pointed to numerous errors in Ali Kordan’s forged ‎degree; such that, in a very short time, several obvious errors were unveiled on the World ‎Wide Web regarding the forged degree. ‎
Bloggers have exposed Ahmadinejad’’ interior minister’s false claims that he received an ‎honorary doctoral degree from Oxford University, England’s oldest institution of higher ‎education, while the website “Alef,” affiliated with the prominent Principalist lawmaker ‎Ahmad Tavakkoli, again reiterated its claim regarding the forged nature of Ali Kordan’s ‎degree by publishing correspondence with the “Oxford University Press and Information ‎Office.” ‎
According to the text of a letter published on the website and signed by the ‎aforementioned office, Oxford University declared that there were no records of Mr. Ali ‎Kordan receiving an honorary doctorate or any other degree from the university. ‎Moreover, the university noted that none of the signatures appearing on the document ‎belonged to any individuals working in the field of law, and none of them were ‎authorized to sign degree certificates on behalf of Oxford University. ‎
Previously, in response to a question raised on the Internet, the registrar of Oxford ‎University had responded by noting, “[t]hank you for your questions regarding Mr. Ali ‎Kordan. Oxford University issues honorary doctorates, but not to works submitted from ‎other countries. Mr. Kordan has not received an honorary doctorate from Oxford ‎University. We have no record of issuing an honorary doctorate to a person by the name ‎of Ali Kordan." ‎
Errors in Kordan’s Forged Degree‎Following the ninth administration interior minister’s claim regarding his degree and the ‎publication of the diploma’s text and image by media outlets, dozens of comments were ‎published on news websites attesting to the degree's forged nature. Some of the errors ‎discovered by bloggers regarding the claims by Ahmadinejad’s interior minister are as ‎follows:‎
‎- A day before providing reporters with the image of Ali Kordan’s supposed diploma, the ‎interior ministry’s public relations office identified an individual named Stephen Pringle, ‎claimed to be the head of the Middle Eastern Studies department at the University of ‎Oxford, to the issuer of the honorary doctorate for Ali Kordan. However, in the ‎presented diploma, there is no mention of the Middle Eastern Studies Department or a ‎person named Pringel; perhaps because, as Ahmad Tavakkoli insisted a day before, no ‎person by that name exists at the Oxford University. ‎
‎- According to Oxford University’s bylaws, which are accessible on the university’s ‎website, from 1948 to present, the University has been issuing doctoral degrees under the ‎title Doctor of Civil Law (DCL), and under the title Doctorate of Law prior to that. The ‎title listed in Ali Kordan’s diploma, Doctor of Laws, is not used by the University. ‎
‎- None of the titles listed below the names of the signatures on Kordan’s diploma, ie the ‎president of the university’s council, the president of the examination center and director ‎of post graduate studies exist at Oxford. Essentially there is no such position as ‎Examination Center at Oxford (similar to what exists at Iran’s Azad University!). ‎Assuming that the diploma is authentic, it must be signed by the Director of Graduate ‎Studies, not the Director of Post Graduate Studies, as listed on the diploma. ‎
‎- The university does not have a college named the College of Law. The name of the ‎university's law school is the Faculty of Law, not the College of Law as listed on Ali ‎Kordan’s diploma. ‎
‎- The names of persons who received honorary doctorates from the Oxford University ‎are listed on the university's website address, listed below. Most certainly, the name of ‎Ali Kordan is not among them:‎
http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/supps/1_4554.htm ‎As listed on the above website, the only person who received a doctoral degree in “civil ‎law” in June of 2000 was Ms. Helen Bamber, which is not similar to Ali Kordan at all. ‎
‎- It is interesting to note that none of the three signatories to Ali Kordan's diploma are ‎members of any sort, whether academic or not, of the university's experimental ‎psychology department. One of the three signatories has previously presented an article ‎at that department which is published by Rajanews as proof of Kordan diploma's ‎authenticity. ‎
‎- More interestingly, the topic of that article and the area of expertise of other signatories ‎to Kordan's degree are in areas such as neurobiology and psychology, which are unlikely ‎to be related to law. ‎
‎- Individuals mentioned on Kordan's diploma have been present only at the experimental ‎psychology department of Brookes University, which is overseen by Oxford University; ‎however, none are considered academic members or serve as professors at the University. ‎Furthermore, none has any connections to legal studies and it would be impossible for ‎them to issue such a degree. ‎
‎- Even in Iran, doctoral degree diplomas are not printed in a disorderly manner, with ‎misaligned lines on a portrait format; usually, they are printed in landscape format in ‎appealing fonts and aesthetic qualities. ‎
‎- The logo that appears at the top of this diploma is different from the University of ‎Oxford's official logo, which is visible on the university's website. Moreover, the ‎diploma refers to the Department of Graduate Studies, whereas University of Oxford has ‎Graduate Office. ‎
‎- Comparing the logo used at the top of the diploma indicates that the logo is different ‎from the one that appears on the Oxford University website. More particularly, it seems ‎as if the surrounding belt is deleted, or cut!‎
‎- The text has the tone of a direct transliteration from Farsi to English, rather than the ‎tone of a university that itself is an authority on English language and grammar. ‎
‎- The diploma's text is written in upper case letters, whereas in official English language ‎texts, upper case letters are reserved for headings or to start a sentence. ‎
‎- Almost all of the text's commas appear in wrong places. ‎
‎- English speakers do not sign above their names and titles, but rather below their names ‎and titles, unlike Mr. Kordan's alleged diploma!‎
‎- Two of the three signatures that appear at the bottom of the diploma are very similar ‎and seem to have been the work of one person. ‎
‎- The word "honorary," which appears in the text, has the American-English spelling, ‎rather than the British English spelling as "honourary." ‎
‎- The spelling of the word "intitle" is incorrect. Apparently, the author meant to say ‎‎"entitle!" Also, this word is indented to the right; but it must have been indented to the ‎left. ‎
‎- The spelling of the word "Benefitted" is incorrect. The word "Benefited" must have ‎been used instead. Moreover, the word as used in the text is grammatically incorrect. ‎
In addition, several other small and major mistakes appear in the text, showing the extent ‎to which Ahmadinejad's interior minister's diploma is forged. ‎
Coverage of the Issue on the InternetThe publication of the image of the interior minister's alleged diploma created a wave of ‎comments on the World Wide Web. Perhaps discussing several of the comments could ‎communicate the atmosphere of this discussion. ‎
Former Majlis deputy Jamileh Kadivar wrote on her personal website, "[a]s we know, ‎honorary doctoral degrees are usually given to individuals that have spearheaded giant ‎leaps in scientific development, or such diplomas are presented to presidents. Mr. ‎Kordan is neither an academic figure nor a first-rate manager; for what was he given this ‎honorary doctorate? How is it possible for someone who is incapable of reading and ‎understanding one page of a legal text in English to receive an honorary doctorate in law ‎from University of Oxford… The interior minister is the public's custodian in elections. ‎If he begins his work with lies and a false diploma, what will we do on election day?" ‎
One University of Oxford graduate wrote, "The issue is much simpler than this. I myself ‎am a graduate of University of Oxford. The simplest point is that the University of ‎Oxford (and in England, Cambridge) has a different educational system, meaning that ‎colleges, not the university as a whole, are the main foundation of the university. ‎Essentially, the meaning of Faculty in Oxford is different than many other universities, ‎and that matriculation and graduation are both undertaken by the college under the ‎university's name. Essentially, the university cannot do anything without any of its ‎colleges, meaning it cannot issue a diploma and write at the top, 'Oxford Colleges ‎Office!'" ‎
Another blogger published the text of Article 527 of the Islamic Penal Code, which notes, ‎‎"Anyone who forges or utilizes - despite knowledge of documents being forged - ‎educational records, graduation records or academic records from universities or other ‎higher education or research institutes inside or outside the country or foreign educational ‎certificates, in addition to payment of damages, shall be sentenced to one to three years ‎imprisonment. In the case that the violator is an employee of a ministry of organization ‎or institution affiliated with the government or municipality or Islamic Revolution ‎institutions, or participates in any way in use or forging of such documents, the violator ‎receives the maximum sentence." ‎

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Iran says halts implementation of stoning sentences
Tue Aug 5, 2008

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has decided to spare the lives of four people sentenced to death by stoning and is halting the implementation of other such sentences pending a review of their cases, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
"The issued verdicts for all of these cases will not be carried out for now," judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
Jamshidi did not say how many people had been sentenced to death by stoning. Defense lawyers last month said at least eight women and one man had received such sentences and may be executed at any time.
But Jamshidi said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had commuted the stoning sentences for two people to 10 years in jail. Two others would be lashed instead after a judicial review, state broadcaster IRIB said.
"In a few other cases, these people have asked for forgiveness and their request ... is under review," IRIB quoted Jamshidi as telling a news conference.
Lawyers defending several of those sentenced to stoning in July said the eight women, ranging in age from 27 to 43, had convictions including prostitution, incest and adultery.
The man, a 50-year-old music teacher, was convicted of illegal sex with a student, they told a news conference on July 20. The lawyers urged parliament to remove stoning and other corporal punishments from law books.
The last officially reported stoning in the Islamic Republic was carried out on a man a year ago which drew criticism from rights groups, the European Union and a top U.N. official.
Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi ordered a moratorium on stoning in 2002.
According to Iran's Islamic penal code, men convicted of adultery should be buried up to their waists and women up to their chests for stoning. Stones used should not be large enough to kill the person immediately.
Amnesty International earlier this year called on Iran to immediately abolish "this grotesque punishment" and said many of those awaiting execution by stoning were sentenced after grossly unfair trials.
The Iranian authorities routinely dismiss charges of rights abuses, saying they are following sharia, or Islamic law.
Iran responds to Western criticism of its rights record by pointing to what it says are abuses in the West, such as detainees held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay.
(Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Dominic Evans)

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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA54080620080805?sp=true

Islamic Republic regime is playing game with European states !

The game is enough ! Think about human rights .Think about the Iranian peoples resistance against the Islamic Republic regime which has been going on for decades.There were a few serious uprising and those wouldn't be the last .Think about strengthening peoples resistance for democracy and human rights.Blocade the assets of the Islamic Republic officials and start a moderate oil embargo against Islamic Republic regime for violating the human rights in Iran and restrict travel of the Islamic Republic officials into European countries ,particularly those who commited crime against humanity . These measures must be imposed right away against Islamic Republic regime in Iran.

The game is enough.

News that are coming from Iran indicate about the regime onslaught on human rights defenders, journalists, writers, political activists, bloggers, women rights activists ,Teachers, workers, students and ethnic human rights defenders / journalists. Ahmadinejad's government step by step onslaught on civil rights movement haven't stopped.It must stop right away.
It is time the European states and parliament put more pressure and not to fall into the trap of the Islamic Republic regime.

Even Shirin Ebadi the Iranian noble peace price winner, lawyer and president of the "Association of Human Rights Defenders" was the target of the regime. Recently the government media started and increased their attack on her. They alleged that Shirin Ebadi's daughters has joined the Bahai religion, which was immediately denied by Shirin Ebadi. She said:
She, together with her daughters are proud of being a Shiite moslem and will leave the reward for this accusation to god.She said this accusation came after she and other human rights defenders namely doctor Abdolfatah Soltani ( lawyer and human rights defender) and Hadi Esmailzadeh ( lawyer and human rights defenders) jointly accepted to defend the seven Bahai who have been arrested previousely.She said : We believe that Bahai's like other human being has the right to lawyer but this doesn't mean to approve their belief. She added:
Defending an accused political, either "Mojahed" or communist , either fundamentalist or nationalist doesn't mean the approval of their belief.
She said : I'm sorry that they are trying to scare me by these acussations , so that i won't dare to defend someone . .......

Link to this news in Farsi:
http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/08/075061.ph

Islamic Republic of Iran executed a Bluch journalist & civil rights activist in revenge against an armed ethnic group!
Mr. Yaghub Mehrnahad , journalist is executed in the city of Zahedan the capital of the province of Sistan & Bluchestan.
Execution of Mr. Mehrnahad brought outrage among journalists , writers, political groups and human rights activists in Iran.
He was executed on Monday together with Mr. Abdolnaser Taheri Sadrieh in the city of Zahedan.
The regime alleged that both of this person were member of a "terrorist group known as Jondollah leaded by Abdolmalek Rigi ".
IRNA and ISNA news agency including the website of Tabnak on Monday reported this news through the announcement by judiciary office in Zahedan .
Mr. Mehrnahad was arrested on January of this year and was sentenced to death. His court session was held without jury , without his lawyer and presence of his family.
Alireza Jamshidi the spokesperson for the Islamic Republic judiciary power announced this news in a press conference.
Mr. Mehrnad's family in a visit to the prison and meeting with their son noticed the torture and weight lost .
Ebrahim Mehrnahad the brother of Yaghub Mehrnahad was also arrested on March this year and had spent several months in prison.

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http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/08/074966.php

http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/16452/