Mohammad Nouri the Iranian patriotic singer has passed away. He will be remembered for generation to come.....

17 Iranian political prisoners in ward number 350 in Evin prison went on hunger strike since July 27,2010 !

Names of 16 political prisoners who went on hunger strike since July 27 are brought to attention . these prisoners were transfered to solitary confinement of ward 240 and in protest they went on hunger strike in Evin prison. These prisoners were kept in ward number 350 in Evin prison.

"Bahman Ahmadi Amouei" journalist and "Kayvan Samimi" also a journalist and writer were the first prisoners transfered to solitary confinement ward number 240 in Evin prison on Monday July 26.

The rest of the political prisoners who have joined the hunger strike are:

1-Ali Malihi Student activist , member of student organization known as "Advare Tahkime vahdat".

2-Hossain Nouraninejad- Journalist and member of "Mosharekat" party.

3-Abdollah momeni -Leader of the " Advare Tahkime Vahdat"

4-Ali Parviz- Student activist

5- Hamid reza Mohammadi-political activist

6-Jafar Eghdami - Civil rights advocate

7-Babak bordbar- photojournalist

8-Zia Nabavi - Student expelled from University ( deprived to continue his education)

9-Ebrahi (Nader )Babaei - Human rights advocate and a wounded soldier of Iran-Iraq war

10-kohyar godarzi- human rights advocate and a web writer

11- Majid Dori - Student activist

12-gholam Hossain Arshi -

13- peyman karimiAzad-

14-Majid Tavakoli -Student leader


Lives of these political prisoners are in great danger...

According to another report the anti riot guards are present around the ward number 350 in Evin prison.Regime and the prison officials are planning to create another "Kahrizak ". Torture , interrogation and death is threatening the lives of political prisoners in Iran.Families of these political prisoners are staging protest and are worried about the situation of their loved one.

Do we care? Do you care UN human rights council? what about you the human rights organizations around the world? What we can do with this current regime in Iran?

Let me thank you on behalf of IRAN WATCH CANADA for all your past support for Iranian people. But really what we

can do with this regime in Iran? This regime and its entire cabinet ministers together with its militia "Sepahe Pasdaran" and "Basij" are the most violators of human rights in Iran . Yet these people like me and you usese passports with different names , they travel around the world for vacation???? These violators of human rights, torturers, interrogators and murderers......

we can at least make their lives miserable when they travel abroad , say in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, South korea, Thailand ,dubai, Kowait, Afghanistan and........We must do whatever we can to bring these people who commit crime against humanity daily to justice.
Link:
http://www.akhbar-rooz.com/news.jsp?essayId=31255

"Isa Sahar Kheiz" the Iranian journalist is sentenced to 15 months imprisonment without attending court and defending himself !

Isa sahar Kheiz has spent one year in prison and according to a recent report by his son , he has been tortured in "Rejaei Shahr" prison and according to his family members and his wife he is not physically well to stay in prison , he suffers from heart problems. According to a report , Isa Sahar Kheiz the Iranian journalist is sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and he is being banned from any journalistic activities.

Mr. sahar Kheiz was arrested on July last year together with hundereds of journalists and many thousands of green movement supporters just after the presidential election and the coup d etat by the regime of Ahmadinejad. He is in prison on the charges of " Threat to National Security" and " insult to khamenei" and " Propagating against the regime".In the past he spent time in solitay confinement and went on hunger strike in protest to his arrest. He is curently in ward number 350 in Evin prison. Report indicate that; the prisoners of this wards are on hunger strike now , including "Bahman ahmadi amouei" another journalist (the husband of Jila baniyaghoub).

Iran’s leadership guilty of crimes against humanity

says report by UN jurist Geoffrey Roberston


Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, recent presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi and a number of sitting and retired judges and officials, including former head of the Supreme Court, Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili, are all liable to arrest under international law for complicity in the murder of thousands of political prisoners at the end of the Iran/Iraq War. This is the conclusion of a 145-page report by Geoffrey Robertson QC, who urges the Security Council to set up a special court, along the lines of the International Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to try these men “for one of the worst single human rights atrocities since the Second World War”. The report concludes that the leaders were guilty of implementing a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in July 1988, which sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death without a trial. At Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and twenty other prisons through out Iran. Dissidents who had previously been sentenced to various prison terms and had refused to recant their religious beliefs were blindfolded and paraded before judges who directed thousands to the gallows. “They were hung from cranes, four at a time, or in groups of six from ropes hanging from the stage of the prison assembly hall. Their bodies were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried by night in mass graves. The locations of which are still withheld from their families”. Mr Robertson concludes that the leaders of Iran planned for this “final solution” when it became clear that they would have to accept a truce with Iraq. Death committees (a religious judge, a prosecutor and an intelligence official) were sent to prisons to arrange the extermination of steadfast sympathizers of Mojahedin Khalq Organization. Then came the turn of the Marxists and atheists who were born in Muslim families and were declared apostates. The men were hanged and the women were tortured until they repented. The evidence set out in the report shows that the victims were killed because of their beliefs about religion – because they were atheists or because they were Muslims who opposed the Ayatollah’s version of Islam (the “Guardianship of the Jurist”) that had been adopted by the theocratic state.
Mr Robertson points out that the crime of genocide includes the destruction of groups because of their religious beliefs or non-beliefs and that those who implemented the fatwa, which directed the extermination of prisoners because of their different religious beliefs, were committing genocide. The significance of this finding is that it would give the international community a legal basis for arresting many of the present leadership of Iran. The report uncovers official statements justifying the slaughter and identifies those present leaders who are suspected of participating in its implementation and cover-up. The best known are the current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was then president of the Islamic Republic, Ali Rafsanjani, still a powerful political player, was then the speaker of the islamic parliament, who, when asked about killing prisoners replied: "Do you think we should have given them sweets?"Then there is the man who in 1988 was Iran's prime minister – Mir Hussein Mousavi, today's reform movement leader. The report uncovers hitherto unknown statements by Mir Hossein Moussavi justifying the action. Mr Robertson says “he has not given any account of his role at the time, or his reaction to it today, although he is frequently asked. His statements at the time were part of the cover-up”. Mr. Robertson names other currently powerful judges as being complicit in the killings. He says that the scale and cold-bloodedness of these killings, and the fact that they were carefully planned, makes them of greater infamy that the slaughter at Srebrenica and the allied prisoner death marches by Japan at the end of World War II.The report accuses Tehran of continuing to deny relatives of the victims their right to know where their loved ones are buried. Some months after they were killed, the families were given plastic bags containing their belongings, but were refused all information about their burial places. The location of mass graves has been established in Tehran’s cemetery area, but attempts by families to gather there to mourn on anniversaries of the massacre have been dispersed by the authorities. The situation in Iran today, the report argues, illustrates the consequences of impunity for crimes against humanity that have never been properly investigated or acknowledged. Some of the leaders who engaged in such a level of lawlessness and barbarity against their own people and their acolytes remain in powerful positions in the judiciary and the state, who’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has in the past year called upon the Revolutionary Guards to use violence against peaceful protests. “Those staged television show trials of the 1980s, with televised ‘confessions’ by leftist prisoners wracked by torture and fear for their families, writes Geoffrey Robertson, re-emerged in 2009, this time featuring ‘Green Movement’ reformists confessing to participation in an international conspiracy. Once again, dissidents are being prosecuted for being moharebs (“warriors against God”) and some are being sentenced to death”. The inquiry was conducted for the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, an NGO concerned with human rights in Iran.
To see the report on the Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran please click here
To see the summary of the report please click here
See these Links:

http://www.irantribunal.com/English/Documents/Geoffery.html

http://www.irantribunal.com/Gallery/index.html

http://www.irantribunal.com/PDF/Iran%20Massacre%20of%20Political%20Prisonners%201988.pdf

For Immediate Release

Iran: Release and Provide Urgent Medical Care to Jailed Activist
Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand May Have Suffered Stroke; Family Claim He is Not Receiving Adequate Health Care

(New York, July 28, 2010) – The Iranian Judiciary should provide urgent medical care to Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand and free him from his unfair detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Kaboudvand, a leading advocate of Kurdish rights in Iran, is serving an 11-year sentence on politically motivated charges. He suffered what may have been a stroke on July 15, 2010, and his family says he is not getting the medical attention he needs.

On July 20, Kaboudvand wrote an open letter to the public prosecutor’s office saying that he experienced “brain and neurological problems... that caused loss of consciousness during the afternoon of July 15.” Prison authorities transferred him to the Evin prison clinic, which diagnosed a sharp rise in his blood pressure, but failed to treat him. In his letter, Kaboudvand wrote that since he lost consciousness he has been experiencing “intense light-headedness and neurological issues associated with sensory, motion and sight difficulties.” His lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told Human Rights Watch that on July 15 she appealed to judiciary officials to allow Kaboudvand access to the medical treatment he needs, but that her request has gone unanswered.

“Kaboudvand needs an immediate and thorough assessment of his worsening condition. Denying a prisoner necessary medical care is both cruel and unlawful,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Iranian authorities are responsible for his well-being and should immediately ensure he can get the medical attention he needs.”

Kaboudvand has suffered two heart attacks since his arrest and detention in July 2007. Information about Kaboudvand’s condition comes on the heels of reports by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Amnesty International indicating that prison authorities are systematically denying needed medical care to political prisoners.

Link:
For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Iran, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/iran

For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Iran’s restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly in the Kurdish regions, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/01/08/iran-freedom-expression-and-association-kurdish-regions

We Shall Overcome because no lie can live forever......

Joan Baez sings " We Shall Overcome" ( with some lyric in Farsi).....

Civil reights advocates are worried on disappearance of Mohammad Mostafaei,lawyer of young offenders sentenced to death by the regime in Iran!

Regime has taken Mr. Mostafaei's wife and brother in-law as hostage!

After interrogation of Mohammad Mostafaei inside the office of prosecutor in Evin prison the other day , once again he was summoned to Evin prison . After not attending, his wife and brother in-law were arrested (Hostage style) near his office.according to a source, this hostage taking will continue until Mr. Mostafaei show himself up.

Mr. Mostafaei is a lawyer of young offenders sentenced to death by the regime in Iran. He is well known for the work he does for defending young offenders. He believes that the regime should stop sentencing thoes young offenders who have commited murder to death. He also believe some of these young offenders did not commit , or wrongfully arrested and their case contain lack of evidence . According to Mr. Mostafaei there are more than twenty young offenders who have been sentenced to death by the regime in Iran and are awaiting the execution of their sentence .

Freedom will com.....

The voice of Ahmad Shamloo,the prominent Iranian poet, 10 years after his death, the regime didn't alow member of his family to hold a gathering.

UN human rights council- Case of Abdolreza Tajik

Rooz online-Leila Tayeri- excerpts from the report.

The family members of Abdolreza Tajik the imprisoned journalist are worried about his situation. In an open letter to Mohammad Sadegh Larijani the head of judiciary power they have expressed their deep concern about his situation. according to report he was "Sexually assaulted" ( Hatke Hormat- His lawyer believe this mean sexual assault) right in front of deputy prosecutor in Evin prison .

In this letter the sister and brother of Abdolreza Tajik wrote: " At the end, 31 days after his arrest.....on July 14 we successfully met him in one of the Evin prison cabin. "

They added: "In this meeting our brother Abdolreza ...with grief ,discomfort and anger emphasized that he had been "sexually assaulted" , he demanded that he would like to meet his lawyer and Tehran prosecutor immediately."

The family members have informed Mohammad sadegh Larijani the head of judiciary power and Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi the Tehran prosecutor, but havn't got any responce from them for 10 days now.

At the end, the family members have requested from these officials to look into the situation of their oppressed imprisoned brother.

Link:

http://www.roozonline.com/persian/news/newsitem/article/2010/july/25//-9ffbc8847e.html

We monitor situation of these young people & your action on violation of human rights.while these young people become our hero,you become the evil..

What they have done and for what reason they must spend their young life in prison for a long time?

According to reports, Bahareh Hedayat a student member of the central council of "Daftare Tahkime Vahdat" ( a student organization) was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison and Milad asadi another student with the same situation was sentenced to seven years in prison. Their sentence was issued by" Judge Moghiseh " a judge of the kangaroo court of revolution.

Judge Moghiseh and all other judeges like Said Mortazavi and Mohammad Sadegh Larijani the head of judiciary power and his brother Mohammad javad Larijani the head of human right commision must know that their files violating of human right in Iran is getting thicker and bigger and heavier. We are no longer living in the dark age and all your actions are being monitored by thousands of freedom loving Iranian around the world.

Question: If England does not grant your demand,what force of action will you take? Gandhi:of course civil disobedience and all other.......

Ali Motahari a conservative MP: The Mp's will question the "president" !

Based on a report by ILNA:

Mr. ali Motahari a conservative MP or ( Osulgara) spoke in the parliament about the Government of ahmadinejad.He said: "The Government must respect the law.The Government must present all its ratifications to the parliament. the Government should not scape from the law and must pay the credit from the budget to the Metro and big cities."

He added: The Government should follow the decision made/ratified by the MP's of parliament with regards to admiting students in technical institute and so on.

As reported in the previous post , the dispute between the government of Ahmadinejad and parliament/ judiciary power and the expediency council and other institutions are growing.

Focus on Middle East -Egypt

In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, 68, discusses the urge for change in his home country, possible cooperation with Islamists in the next election and the prospects of driving autocratic Hosni Mubarak out of office.SPIEGEL: Mr. ElBaradei, some six months ago, you announced in an interview with us that you wanted to retreat from public life. After 12 years as the chief of the United Nations nuclear weapons inspectors in Vienna, you only wanted to give lectures. Now you are challenging President Hosni Mubarak. What happened?ElBaradei: The decisive moment was my return to Cairo in February. I really only wanted to visit my country again and spend a few weeks at my house here near the pyramids. But then, 1,500 people were standing there at the airport. It was a cross-section of our society: students, business people, workers and surprisingly many women, including Egyptian women with head scarves and veiled faces. Some called out: "This country must be changed, please help us make that happen!" Others held signs reading: "ElBaradei for President!" It electrified me.SPIEGEL: And that’s why you changed plans? According to the constitution, you can’t even become a candidate for the presidency without your own party.ElBaradei: I have traveled through the cities and through the villages. I was shaken by the backwardness of my country, deeply moved by the people’s palpable desire for change, overpowered by the sympathy and enthusiasm I was met with. And then it was the regime itself that gave me no other choice than to become politically active. With the help of the state-controlled media, they launched an unprecedented smear campaign against me, denounced me as a foreign agent.SPIEGEL: You know what happens to challengers of Mubarak. The last man to contest Mubarak for the presidency landed in jail.ElBaradei: I was in Alexandria a short time ago with Ayman Nour at a protest event dedicated to the victims of the regime’s torture. I’m privileged in that I can rely somewhat on the fact that my international recognition protects me. Of course my wife and my children are afraid of violent attempts against me. But my family know that I have no choice: We live in a special time of awakening. This is an historical moment for Egypt …SPIEGEL: … in which many see you as a kind of messiah.ElBaradei: I neither can nor want to be a savior. This mentality of sitting back and waiting for a savior is exactly what I am fighting against. The people have to effectuate change themselves and they have to dedicate themselves to it — that is the only way to achieve decisive progress. And that is exactly what is happening these days, with a breathtaking mobilization in completely new ways.SPIEGEL: How so?ElBaradei: Volunteers from all over the country, from every level of society are joining us. They ask: What can I do? There are already a good 15,000 supporters who are fanning out in the cities and villages to inform people about the "National Movement for Reform." Many are joining us in our signature-gathering campaign and are saying with their names and passport numbers: We have had enough, we want change! And because our state of emergency laws prevent more than five people from assembling for a demonstration, we are creating a virtual town hall through the media.SPIEGEL: You’ve become a blogger?ElBaradei: A short time ago, I didn’t even know what Twitter and Facebook were. Now I use the new media and we have almost 30,000 permanent users on our website and two Facebook groups with 250,000 users each. Things are starting to move in my country.SPIEGEL: Why is this only starting now?ElBaradei: The country has been governed under state of emergency laws for the past 30 years. The security services are omnipotent, the police act arbitrarily. This has created a culture of fear. Should a figure be needed to represent this awakening, I will do everything I can to be a catalyst for this change.SPIEGEL: For a long time though, as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and as the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2005, you were something for the regime to be proud of.ElBaradei: Oh yes. Just four years ago, President Mubarak awarded me this country’s highest medal and gushingly praised me as an outstanding son of Egypt to the point that it was embarrassing for me. Since I have become actively involved in the Egyptian political opposition, the state authorities have, in a subtle way controlled my public exposure, such as appearances on television. Some of my supporters were detained, and hoteliers who offered me a meeting room were pressured to cancel the booking.SPIEGEL: Many Egyptians refer to Mubarak as the "Pharaoh" because he has been ruling the country from his palace for almost 30 years now. How do you see him?ElBaradei: Mubarak is a one-man show without checks and balances, with no real contact with the people, who has allowed Egypt to become a police state. The regent of a country that has fallen deeply, and dramatically lost stature and forfeited influence.SPIEGEL: Iran and Turkey appear to dominate in the Middle East. Has Egypt now been relegated to playing second fiddle?ElBaradei: Cairo was once the undisputed cultural and economic center of this region. Today close to one-third of the 80 million Egyptians are illiterate, more than one out of every five people is forced to survive on less than $1 a day. But, according to Transparency International, we have a leading position in the list of the world’s most corrupt states. Egypt is even on a list of countries threatened to become failed states — that just shows how far things have gone with us.SPIEGEL: That is a Herculean task for the next president.ElBaradei: Yes, because foreign policy and domestic policy can no longer be separated. A state that wants to have international clout, must have a lively and open civil society — only then will it be attractive elsewhere.SPIEGEL: Nonetheless, the West still sees Mubarak as a partner. Despite his deficits when it comes to democracy, he is seen as a guarantee for a certain amount of stability. No other country outside of Israel receives as much American aid.ElBaradei: You are touching on a dilemma for the West: Mubarak has convinced the United States and Europe that they only have a choice between two options — either they accept this authoritarian regime, or Egypt will fall into the hands of the likes of bin Laden’s al-Qaida. Of course that is not exactly true. Mubarak uses the specter of Islamist terror to prevent a third way: the country’s democratization. But Washington needs to know that the support of a repressive leadership only creates the appearance of stability. In truth, it promotes the radicalization of the people.‘A Double Standard Is Being Applied’SPIEGEL: Many Egyptians say that the West has allied itself too closely with Mubarak, while others say that Mubarak has become a lackey of Western powers. Who is right?ElBaradei: Take a look at our roll in the Gaza conflict. The Gaza Strip is the world’s largest prison. And it is one with two prison guards — on the one side, Israel seals the area off, and on the other side we have closed our border. Egypt’s government has invoked security reasons for doing so — they fear the Hamas, whose radical positions I do not share, but who came to power in a legitimate election.SPIEGEL: What would you do differently in the Gaza conflict?ElBaradei: We must do all that we can to relieve the suffering of the people there. Open the borders, end the blockade! And for the long term, not half-heartedly as is now the case on our side …SPIEGEL: … and as the Israelis are now planning, at least when it comes to deliveries of food items.ElBaradei: I don’t see a danger to our national security through a permanent opening. But I do see a major problem with us continuing to be accomplices to those who humiliate the Palestinian people.SPIEGEL: Do you still believe in a Palestinian state, that can co-exist with Israel?ElBaradei: That is the only solution. But for that to happen, a government must come to power in Israel that respects the 1967 borders. That accepts that repression is no solution.SPIEGEL: And the Palastinians must recognize Israel’s right to exist and make sure that no further rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Both sides still have some work to do before the conditions are met for further negotiations.ElBaradei: Exactly. But the people in the Middle East have the impression that a double standard is being applied, and that things are only ever demanded of the Palestinians. Such behavior stirs up resentment in the people of Egypt.SPIEGEL: How can you, on the one hand, satisfy the Arab street and, on the other, cooperate with the West and negotiate with Israel?ElBaradei: Turkey is a member of NATO and partner of the West and Israel. And yet Prime Minister Erdogan has no qualms about supporting an aid flotilla for Gaza that was supposed to breach Israel’s sea blockade. The people of the Arab world are celebrating him. Erdogan’s photo can be seen everywhere.SPIEGEL: Political populism doesn’t help any country — just look at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.ElBaradei: I agree. But the so-called moderate regimes in the Middle East have not fulfilled their promises. The people were betrayed by their rulers. And the Arab League, once co-founded by Egypt, with its headquarters in Cairo, long ago became irrelevant through its wavering. What is left of it is a joke. That is why Ahmadinejad, with his radical positions, is so celebrated by the masses …SPIEGEL: … and feared by leaders in the Middle East. He is strongly suspected of trying to build nuclear weapons. You know better than anyone how great the threat is. Your inspectors collected the evidence against Teheran. The CIA now says that Iran could build a bomb within the next two years.ElBaradei: The Iran situation is multifaceted. Tehran is working on technologies that make the construction of a bomb possible and it is on the path to becoming a virtual nuclear power. But I do not believe that the Iranians are actually producing nuclear weapons.SPIEGEL: But simply having control over the nuclear fuel cycle puts Iran in a more powerful position and puts neighboring states under pressure.ElBaradei: That is a status issue that is overrated by the West. It is a matter of prestige. The Iranians are showing the Arab world that technologically, they have caught up with the world’s leading nations.
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Personally, I'm not gullible enough to buy into the idea that we are sending 100,000s of troops and billions of $ to a war-torn region in central Asia in order to prevent another terrorist attack on our soil. Why? Because I'm not a moron. Get off your high horse. We are doing the exact same thing every other empire did: Control resources and harness power.

Yazd City-The background voice:Look!Look! this is Islamic Republic.Look,what they have done to motorcyclist&his motorcycle.My body is shaking.

IRAN WATCH CANADA: Will Ahmadinejad's Government collaps due to mounting pressure!

Future will answer the above question? What is the reality is the mounting pressure from within the Islamic Republic officials from the concervative ranks and from the public. Recently talks about this issue often appeared in newspapers and onlines. The latest was discussed by Engineer Sahabi with french Lomonde newspaper. He told to the newspaper that: "The Parliament is waiting the leader to remove his support for Ahmadinejad and then they will engage and remove Ahmadinejad from his post."

Mr. Sahabi the president of the "Meli-Mazhabi "national council, former member of the revolution council and the head of the planning Organization in the government of Bazargan told to this newspaper:

Most Iranian beleive that the religiouse government has failed and they want the separation of religion from government.The ruling system is becoming more isolated day by day and Ahmadinejad who spends lots of energy to ruine the economic empowerment , if does not have the support of the leader , the parliament wont hesitate to give NO vote to ahmadinejad's Government.

Link:

http://www.peiknet.com/1389/09tir/26/page/33Sahabi.htm

Sara Mahboubi a bahai student deprived from continuing her education by the regime in Iran has been released from prison!

Society against discrimination and for education in Iran-

Sara Mahboubi is an activist of the above society and those Bahai students who have been deprived by this regime to continue their education. She was arrested on Thursday June 24 /2010 after attending to the office of Ministry of Information in "Sari" the capital city of Mazanderan province and after spending 24 days in prison she was released on today sunday july 18/2010 by bail . all this time she was in Ministry of Information detention centre in the city of "Sari".

there are many students who are currently in prison and are deprived from their education or expelled from university or schools because of their belief or activities and for Bahai's the regime always has alibies to ban them from school.To name a few :

Shiva Nazarahari

Zia Nabavi

Majid Dori

Ms. Mahdieh Golro

Kohyar Godarzi

Majid Tavakoli

IRAN WATCH CANADA will continue to monitor the situation of these students and expose the policy of the current regime in Iran.

Link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/notes/green-power-ghodrate-sabz/sara-mhbwby-danshjwy-mhrwm-az-thsyl-bhayy-azad-shd/416249470247

Those Who Should Stand on Trial .....

This picture was taken this week on the innauguration of "Sepahe Pasdaran" (the Islamic Republic guards -something similar to Sadam's National Guards) congress in Tehran. In front row to the right of Ahmadinejad is the commander in chief of "Sepah" Mohammad Ali Jafari and on the left of Ahmadinejad is representative of Khamenei in Sepah and his name is Saidi , and the clergy seating on the 2nd row is Hossain Taeb the chief security intelligence of Sepah and the accused in the Kahrizak prison where so many young peaceful protesters were savagely murdered and secretly buried. Naghadi and Zolnour are also in the picture. These members of Sepahe Pasdaran were all involved in the last year election coup detat against the Iranian peoples will and must stand on trial .........

Link:

http://www.peiknet.com/

Iran my home ,my sweet home........

" National Front"members visited Narges Mohammadi in hospital.This is what the regime do with human rights advocates-Alert... UN human rights council

FIFA - Soccer and : Say NO to Racism

HRW: Iranian Attacks Should Not Target Iraqi Civilians‏

Iran/Iraq:
Iranian Attacks Should Not Target Iraqi CiviliansVillagers
Allege Artillery Shelling, Attacks on Livestock Intended to Clear Border Area(New York, July 12, 2010) – Iran needs to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians at risk of serious harm from artillery bombardment and other military operations in an area that includes dozens of Kurdish villages inside northern Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today.The Iranian attacks, directed against the Iranian Kurdish armed group Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), intensified in late May and have led to the displacement of more than 500 families, wounded an unknown number of villagers, and killed a teenage girl. Iraqi villagers also told Human Rights Watch, which visited the area in late June, that Iranian border guards have targeted their livestock and sometimes fired at the villagers themselves.“Iran should take all feasible precautions to spare civilians from artillery and other attacks,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Firing artillery shells into populated areas, especially where there are no military targets, and targeting livestock are serious violations of the laws of war.”Since June 3, 2010, about 500 families have fled their border villages to crowded tent camps elsewhere in Erbil and Sulaimaniya provinces, joining about 250 families who had fled Iranian shelling in previous months. Aid organizations and local municipalities have struggled to meet the displaced families’ basic needs. The recent attacks also led an unknown number of other Kurdish civilians to flee elsewhere throughout the countryside and to surrounding towns.The affected areas lie in the Qandil Mountains, along the eastern borders of Erbil and Sulaimaniya provinces, in the region administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). To the west, along the Iraqi-Turkish border, Turkish forces continue to attack Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces, although these attacks have not yet had the same impact on populated Iraqi Kurdish areas, aid agencies report. PJAK, a group formed in 2004, is affiliated with the PKK.

For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Iran, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/iran

Monologue -by Iranian cartoonist Mana neyestani- Free Expression

About the last post- A video clip from VOA speaking by phone with Narges Mohammadi....

To UN general secretary honorable Ban Ki Moon and human rights council :Human rights advocates in Iran needs your protection now.

Now that Shirin Ebadi is no longer in Iran due to threat and blackmail by Ahmadinejad's government , Narges Mohammadi is the first person in charge of human rights in Iran. Narges Mohammadi is in fact the voice of human rights situation. Like Shirin Ebadi the first Iranian who have received the Noble Peace Prize, together they have fought back for human rights in Iran and monitored as much as they could the violation of human rights and informed the world about the issue. In the last post she speaks by phone with VOA and she explained her ordeal while in prison and in the hospital.Here is a excerpt from that interview:

Ms. Mohammadi was released from prison on July first after spending 22 days in prison.She is diagnosed with mental health problem and paralysis due to the intense interrogation.As a result, she was released because of prison doctor recomendation and suggestion that the prison officials not to create another situation like zahra Kazemi, the Iranian -Canadian photojournalist who was killed during intense interrogation in Evin prison. Since her release from prison she was transfered to hospital for treatment. Her husband Mr. Taghi Rahmani is also a pro reform journalist and writer.

Ms.narges Mohammadi:
On June 27 i had a nervous breakdown in solitary confinement. Due to an illness in two years earlier , my doctor recomened to the prison officials not to hold me in a solitary confinement which may worsen my physical ability and mental situation. From June 17 to July 10, 15 or 16 days that i felt the worse and fell down 14 times by face or from back on the ground,which caused bruises and wounds on my arms and legs. One time when i was going for interrogation i fell because i'm diagnosed with paralysis of hand and legs. One time.... when i was taking bath , i fell and the prison officials were transfering me with blanket or wheelchair for interrogation and i remember with certain that the doctor of the prison clinic told to the interrogatior that , if you keep her here she will become the 2nd Zahra Kazemi.... after spending sometimes in the hospital and 7 or 8 doctor work on my situation , but until now , they did not recognize what is wrong with me...
Despite of recomendation by prison doctor , the interrogators continued to interrogate me....I have told in the past that; solitary confinement is a violation of human rights......I as a mother who was forcefully separated from my two childeren who were crying and brought to prison because of my activities on human rights ... and it was very hard for me, because of my three year old daughter who had 10 stitches on her stomach and was asking me to go kiss her and i had to walk the steps from the third floor, as a mother this was more than torture........

Narges Mohammadi- vice president of the' Association of Human Rights Defenders'.She is diagnosed with paralysis in prison.A living Zahra Kazemi....

Islamic regime in Iran introduced "Islamic Hair Code" for all to follow ,even the barbers,what an stupide world this regime officials live in?!

Recently the government of Ahmadinejad has introduced new islamic code in the society and that is about "Islamic Hair code".The regime can introduce as much barbaric policy as they can,which intend to target the young Iranian boys and men and women,a kind of cultural / cult+.... policy at this juncture of the century.Whatever is in their mind is a sick backward and violent act which violate the freedom and human rights of all people. But , all Iranian know that ; this regime is unable to implement it and it will be joked by people in communities and in Islamic Republic history. The regime instead of these policies must tackle the economic crisis and inflation or job creation in the country. The regime can't divert the young minds from what exactly is doing nationally and internationally with its policies and ruining the lives of a generation.

IRAN WATCH CANADA: Dont kill this young man !

Iran: Further information: Juvenile offender's execution scheduled: Mohammad Reza Haddadi

The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi has been scheduled again in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, and could take place as soon as 7 July. He is sentenced to death for a crime he allegedly committed while under the age of 18.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/072/2010/en

Ahmad Tavakoli a conservative MP: For the removal of president, we need 2/3 of the vote !

According to news online,Mr. Ahmad Tavakoli a conservative MP from Tehran ,in his sppeech today in the parliament sharply attacked Ahmadinejad and said: President has special understanding from article number 113 of the constitution, and if he finds a ratification uncompatible with its government trys to dismantle that ratification.

Ahmadinejad is teaching others to become stubborn with regard to law.

He added: For the removal of president Ahmadinejad from his post ,we need two third of the MPs' vote.

Link:

http://www.kaleme.com/1389/04/15/klm-24848

Iran: Prevent Woman’s Execution for Adultery-Human Rights Watch

Iran: Prevent Woman’s Execution for Adultery
Judiciary Should End Stoning as a Punishment and Halt All Executions

(London, July 7, 2010) – The Iranian judiciary should halt plans to execute a woman convicted of adultery, Human Rights Watch said today. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who was previously punished with flogging for having an “illicit relationship,” faces imminent death by stoning after a second court convicted her of adultery during marriage.

On May 15, 2006, a criminal court in East Azerbaijan province found Ashtiani guilty of having an “illicit relationship” with two men following the death of her husband. She was sentenced to flogging and was given 99 lashes. In September 2006, during the murder trial of a man accused of killing Ashtiani’s husband, another court reopened an adultery case based on events that allegedly took place before her husband died and eventually convicted her of “adultery while being married.” During the trial, Ashtiani retracted a confession she had made during a pretrial interrogation, alleging that she had been forced to make the confession under duress. She has continued to deny the adultery charge.

“Death by stoning is always cruel and inhuman, and it is especially abhorrent in cases where judges rely on their own hunches instead of evidence to proclaim a defendant guilty,” said Nadya Khalife, Middle East women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Iran should immediately put a stop to this execution – and all executions.”
For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Iran, please visit:
http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/iran

"Islamic Dress Code" & " Islamic Watch Dogs"!Fight goes on between Iranian women and these barbaric policies!Future will show,who will win!

G20 Toronto Police Agent Provocateurs in Video and Photos

Abolish the death penalty

The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights.

After China with 1000 + execution ,Iran is the 2nd country that executed 388+ people in 2009.

It is the premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state. This cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment is done in the name of justice.

It violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature of the crime, the characteristics of the offender, or the method used by the state to kill the prisoner.

Link;

http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty

Stop Violence Against Women

Violence against women is often ignored and rarely punished

Women and girls suffer disproportionately from violence - both in peace and in war, at the hands of the state, the community and the family.

A life free from violence is a basic human right

From the home to the conflict zone, violence against women must stop.

Amnesty International's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women:

Pushes for the implementation of existing laws that guarantee access to justice and services for women subjected to violence including rape and other forms of sexual violence

Calls for new laws to be enacted that will protect women's human rights

Demands an end to laws that discriminate against women

Urges the ending of violence against women perpetrated by a state and its agents

Works to empower women

Link:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/stop-violence-against-women

Salil Shetty, Amnesty International's new Secretary General, talks about his hopes for the organization

1 July 2010

Salil Shetty, the new Secretary General of Amnesty International, on Thursday began his first full day in office by pledging to do all that he can to ensure governments respect the rights of the world's most impoverished and vulnerable groups.

"I am deeply privileged to have this opportunity to lead the movement in its fight to end repression and injustice," Salil Shetty said. "With traditional human rights challenges persisting and several new challenges confronting the world, the need for Amnesty International as a leading voice against human rights violations is greater than ever before."

Link:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/new-amnesty-international-chief-calls-governments-respect-rights-worlds-most-vulner