BY KARIM SADJADPOUR 18 March 2010 Last spring, President Barack Obama broke dramatically with three decades of U.S. foreign policy by delivering a recorded message on the Persian New Year to the government and people of Iran. In addressing the leadership of the “Islamic Republic of Iran” — the first time a U.S. president has ever used [...]
Dorsa Sobhani’s family is prohibited from visiting their detained daughter in the days leading to Norooz, the Persian New Year. Dorsa’s lawyer’s visit to the judiciary has proven ineffective, as authorities have prohibited visitation even to her lawyer. In the previous days, Dorsa’s family have written several letters to the Tehran Prosecutor, the Article 90 [...]
Student activist Mahdieh Golroo has been banned for the fourth time from seeing her husband. Prison officials, in reply to the repeated visitation requests of Mahdieh’s husband Vahid Lalipour, announced that Mahdieh Golroo is “prohibited from visits.” In the final days before the end of 1388 (the end of the Persian calendar year), Mahdieh Golroo [...]
Reporters Without Borders urged the Islamic Republic to establish an independent and impartial commission to investigate the death of young Iranian blogger Omidreza MirSayafi who died a year ago in prison. Omidreza MirSayafi, a 28-year-old Iranian blogger, was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for “insulting Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei,” the founder [...]
Businessman Amir Jahanchahi says he will nurture ‘cells of resistance’ to force regime change in Tehran Iranian opposition supporters abroad are being urged to unite in a new Green Wave movement to work towards overthrowing a divided Islamic regime in Tehran. Amir Jahanchahi, an exiled Iranian businessman, today called on his countrymen to rally round [...]
Number 2010-1301 March 17, 2010 It has been decades that Iran and the Iranian people have been surrounded by bitter stories of human rights violations. Different governments from kings to sheiks have egotistically believed that ignoring the basic and self-evident rights of individuals can prolong their reigns. However, history has proven that continuous acts of [...]
Abdolreza Ghanbari, Another Ashura Day Protester, Receives Death Sentence Abdolreza Ghanbari, accused of heresey (moharebeh) for participation in Ashura Day protests, has been sentenced to death by Judge Salavati. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has been informed that Ghanbari did not have access to a fair trial and has not had the [...]
Judicial officials in Tehran’s attorney general office have refused to respond to imprisoned student (since December 2009) and blogger Hossein Ronaqi Maleki’s family regarding his case. Reporters And Human rights Activists News Agency (RAHANA) – Each time they inquire about his case, Hossein Ronaqi Maleki’s family is mistreated and judicial officials do not provide them with [...]
After the interrogator refused to release her son from prison before Norooz [Iranian New Year], Farangis Davoodi, Kaveh Kermanshahi’s mother, has decided to set up a sofre haft-sin [traditional decorative set up for the Iranian New Year] outside the prison so she can be present with her child on the holiday. On Wednesday March 17, [...]
Source: Revolutionary Road blog