Meshkin news Human Rights Service:
Azerbaijani writer critical of Islam, died in the attempt!
Rafiq Taqi, General physician and a controversial writer, who was assassinated on November 19, died. His doctor at the hospital in Baku said that his respiratory passage was blocked .
The Ajarbayejani journalist was assassinated due to a fatwa by Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani.
Rafiq Taqi who aws the member of "The Assembly of Free writers" wrote an article on 2006 titled " The Europe and Us" which was critical to Islam and based on that, Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani issued a fatwa and called him as "Mahduroldam" meaning its ok if he is killed by Islamists.
Because of protest by some religious personalities ,the Government of Azarbayejan arrested Rafiq Taqi and sentenced him to three years imprisonment. Rafiq Taqi spent two of three years in jail when the president of Azarbayjan pardoned him and he was released and resumed his medical practices and writing .
Rafiq Taqi was on his way home on Nov.19 at 10 pm when an unknown assailant attacked him by knife which resulted nine wounds on his body and as a result of these wounds he died later in the hospital.
After the operation in the hospital ,he has told reporter of "Free Europe " that , he believe the Azarbayejani Islamicts and Islamic Republin in Iran were behind the assassination .However,Islamic Republic regime issued a statement rejected the allegation.

Bahrain police trap people in a garage and set fire to it - 23 Sept 2011- Whoever set the fire and If this is true ,it is crime against humanity !

The end of all dictators(Escape,captured,dead),One way or the other!!! Power temptation! Democratic process in Libya is harder than regime change !

Can the regime officials in Iran and Syria learn from this experience or not ??????

Iran,Syria and other dictatorial regime are trying in vain to stay in power ! Time to go before it is too late! This is the message,are you deaf?!

Khemenei of Islamic Republic in Iran and his regime involvement in Syria get response from Syrian people.

Syria-Dictatorship must come to an end.Presidents must govern for 4-8 not 40-50 years.democratic institutions w/people representation is the goal

Amnesty International at 50 ! IRAN WATCH CANADA: congrat...

Celebrating 50 years of uniting against injustice !

We’re 50!
Fifty years ago one man’s outrage at the imprisonment of two students for raising a toast to freedom inspired a global movement. Together, we have successfully campaigned for the release of thousands of people, imprisoned just for voicing their opinions. Together, we have given hope to tens of thousands of women and men facing intimidation, violence, or even death. Together, we have made a difference to countless lives.
There will be many opportunities to get involved and take action during our anniversary year. Here's a glimpse of the tens of thousands of you who kicked off the celebrations by joining in another toast to freedom, 50 years on.
Watch the video:
http://youtu.be/FUsLXR6tLJg
http://www.amnesty.org/en/50

Uzbek Journalists on hunger strike !

Hi,My name is Bakhtier Shakhnazarov, I'm a freelance journalist from Uzbekistan currently living in Toronto. I'm writing to let you know that two well-known journalists from Uzbekistan are in a great troble. Saodat Omonova (Uzbek spellling - Саодат Омонова) and Malohat Eshonqulova (Малоҳат Эшоқулова), former journalists of the Yoshlar (Youth) TV Channel of the Uzbekistan's National TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, are entered to the fourth day of their hunger strike. They were fired last December after they held a picket at the Mustaqillik (Independence) Square in Tashkent, the country's capital, against corruption, group of interests and censorship in the Yoshlar TV Channel. Later, their registrations (permit to live) in Tashkent region were abolished by the court and two journalists were forced go back to Samarkand, their native town.They desparately need in an international support.Please, make a statement to defend them. For an additional information you may contact me at: 416-422-4998 or 647-997-7667 (cell).Looking forward to hearing from you.Bakhtier.

Not the Islamic Republic dictatorship but the Iranian people's solidarity with Tunisian ,Egyptian and other Arab people.

Islamic dictatorship in Iran in recent months executed hundereds of prisoners including political prisoners !Afghan moslem protest against execution.

Agence France-Presse ·
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011
National Post
Iranian lawyer's jailing 'unjustifiable' : Canada

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has condemned as "completely unacceptable and unjustifiable" a jail sentence handed to a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran. Nasrin Sotoudeh, 45, who was jailed in September for talking to foreign media, was sentenced to 11 years in jail and banned for 20 years from working as an attorney and leaving the country. Ms. Sotoudeh, the mother of two, represented Nobel Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi and her family.Read more.


OTTAWA (AFP) – Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon on Tuesday condemned as "completely unacceptable and unjustifiable" a jail sentence handed to a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, 45, who was jailed in September for talking to foreign media, was sentenced to 11 years in jail and banned for 20 years from working as an attorney and leaving the country, her husband told AFP.
"We are deeply concerned," Cannon said in a statement. "Such a sentence is completely unacceptable and unjustifiable."
"We once again urge the government of Iran to reverse the deterioration of human rights in its country," he added.
Sotoudeh, the mother of two, represented Nobel Laureate and lawyer Shirin Ebadi and her family as well as Issa Saharkhiz, a journalist and aide to opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi, a vocal secular democracy activist.
She was also the lawyer of Arash Rahmani-Pour, a 20-year-old man who was executed in January 2010 along with another man for membership in a monarchist group and for being a "mohareb," or an enemy of God.
Sotoudeh complained that she had been prevented from attending his trial and that she had learned about the execution after it was carried out.


The National Lawyers Guild expresses its support and solidarity with Iran’s human rights defenders who have been prosecuted and/or arrested due to their human rights activities. The National Lawyers Guild is especially concerned for the well being of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a colleague of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, whose health is quickly deteriorating from three separate hunger strikes undertaken to protest her lack of due process.
The National Lawyers Guild also urges the release of human rights lawyer, Mohammad Oliyafar who suffers from leukemia and was sentenced to one year prison for publicizing the case of his clients. The National Lawyers Guild condemns the systematic persecution of the founders and members of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, including the nine-year prison sentence dealt to Mohammad Seifzadeh, co-founder of the DHRC, and Mohammad Ali Dadkhah and Abdolfattah Soltani for establishing DHRC.
We call upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to adhere to the standards set-forth by the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, which states that lawyers must be allowed to carry out their work “without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference.” It also recognizes that lawyers are entitled to freedom of expression, including “the right to take part in public discussion of matters concerning the law, the administration of justice and the promotion and protection of human rights.”
As peers of Iran’s detained human rights defenders, the National Lawyers Guild urges that
1. The Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately and unconditionally release Nasrin Sotoudeh, all detained human rights defenders, and prisoners of conscience, and recognize that the world will hold the IRI accountable for the well-being of Nasrin Sotoudeh and all prisoners of conscience.
2. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay publicly call on the Islamic Republic to unconditionally release Nasrin Sotoudeh and other human rights defenders.
3. The world’s governments and authorities work with their colleagues and appropriate bodies to ensure Nasrin Sotoudeh’s release and to call on Iran to end its persecution of human rights defenders.
The National Lawyers Guild hopes in the coming days, the appropriate steps will be taken to remedy the dire situation of human rights defenders in Iran.

David Gespass
National Lawyers Guild President

The National Lawyers Guild is a non-profit federation of lawyers, legal workers, and law students. Since 1937, Guild members have been using the law to advance social justice and support progressive social movements. There are chapters throughout the United States, and the National Office is located in New York City.
The NLG is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
The aim is to bring together all those who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, people with disabilities and people of color, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.
Learn more about The National Lawyers Guild here:
http://www.nlg.org/
United 4 Iran:
http://united4iran.org/

"Peaceful Revolution in Burma"- Dictators are treators to their people and countries! Like Ali " Khaenei" in Iran!

Aung San Suu Kyi released ! Love of people to a true leader !

Burma's military government freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday after her latest term of detention expired.
As many as 5,000 supporters gathered outside her residence in Rangoon as she appeared at the gate of her compound.
It took Suu Kyi, 65, about 20 minutes to quiet the boisterous well-wishers. She spoke briefly, thanking her supporters.
"I haven't seen you for a long time," she said, adding they would see each other again Sunday at the headquarters of her political party.
"If we work in unity, we will achieve our goal," she said. "We have a lot of things to do."
She was expected Sunday to meet with her party, diplomats, the public and media, and to attend the funeral of a friend. She was also planning a customary visit to Rangoon's Shwedagon pagoda.

Suu Kyi has spent 15 of the past 21 years in detention without trial. Her latest period of house arrest spanned 7½ years.
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and devout Buddhist has promoted a non-violent movement for democracy in Burma, also known as Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962.
The release from house arrest of one of the world's most prominent political prisoners came a week after an election that was swept by the military's proxy political party and decried by Western observers as a sham designed to perpetuate authoritarian control.

Link:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/13/suu-kyi-burma.html

Hear the voice of Afghan women !
Afghan Women fight back against the rule of reactionary law , against talebanism and the idea of keeping the Afghan society and Afghanistan in conservatism.Only Afghan women know what kind of animal the Talebans are? What they have experienced during Taleban regim made them brave today to fight back and stand on alert and let the world know what is going on in Afghanistan and it is our solidarity with them that make them strong.

It is time G20's to understand and support the Afghan , the Iranian and Middle Eastern women and men for their struggle for human rights and democracy in the region.

Taleban are targeting the brave Afghan women like Sitara Achakzay and murdering them and Iranian Government is also targeting human right defenders , journalists and civil right lawyers, students and others and arresting , detaining or murdering them. In Saudi Arabia and other Arab states the women want to be free from the conservative, corrupt rulers . It is time the G20's to focus on Middle East and stop supporting these governments and give the human rights the priority when dealing with them.