On March 8, 2010, political prisoner Behrooz Javid Tehrani was transferred to solitary confinement in ward 1 of Rajai Shahr prison under the orders of ward 4 head Hassan Akharian.  Tehrani was assaulted by Akharian and threatened with death. According to HRDAI (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran), in the days that followed his [...]

29 Mar 2010 Maziar Bahari was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for attempting to report on 2009’s disputed election. He describes his ordeal, and suggests what can be done to help journalists jailed by the Islamic Republic Being a journalist in Iran is one of the most insecure jobs in a country run by one [...]

An edited extract from the speech given by Maziar Bahari at the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards Being a journalist in Iran is one of the most insecure jobs in a country run by one of the most insecure governments in the world. More than a hundred journalists have been arrested since the disputed presidential [...]

by IAN MORRISON 28 March 2010 An interview with Saeed Rahnema Saeed Rahnema was active in the labor and left movement during the 1979 revolution in Iran. He was a founder and a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of Workers/Employees Councils of IDRO, the largest industrial conglomerate of Iran. He was a [...]

Being part of all important events, in 2009 crowd-sourced journalism came of age and broke through into the mainstream of journalism. In terms of journalistic coverage of last year, crowd-sourced journalism had a finger in most of the bigger pies. The US airliner that ditched into the Hudson river in January was first announced on Twitter. [...]

By DAVID E.SANGER and WILLIAM J.BROAD WASHINGTON — Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands. The United Nations inspectors assigned to monitor Iran’s nuclear program are now searching [...]

March 20, [2010] marks the start of the Iranian New Year 1389. On this occasion, the Network of Iranian Labor Unions (NILU) salutes the Iranian working class and their allies, as well as the international labor movement, in solidarity with their struggle. Several unions in Iran have issued communiques on the occasion of the new [...]

In winter of 2010, at least 181 cases of human rights violations have been reported. Jaras- In the past three months, violations of human rights has increased more than ever in Kurdistan. Arrests, prosecutions, imprisonments, unjust executions, and executions of political prisoners have been common practice [by the Iranian regime]. There have also been numerous [...]

There is a road in south of Tehran that leads you to Behesht-e Zahra (a local cemetery), and the kids along the road are the spirits of paradise who make their living by selling flowers. There are glimpses of light in their eyes under the scorching summer sun and the freezing winter winds that hopes [...]

A Letter for Navid Khanjani from *Shayan Vahdati Not my hand, but my heart shivers as I write your name. It was moments after damn twelve o’clock when they said they have taken Navid.  Take you?  You were not the type to be taken. What is one to do with fear?  They probably came to [...]