Panahi was due to take his place on the Cannes jury this year. Instead, he is incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, after he was arrested for unspecified crimes. The festival has left an empty chair on the jury panel. Stephen Frears, in Cannes for the premiere of Tamara Drewe, added his voice to the [...]
The White House has reacted with cautiousness to the news that Iran has agreed to a deal to send low-enriched uranium abroad in return for nuclear fuel, following mediation talks with Turkish and Brazilian leaders. The plan, signed May 17 in Tehran, could revive a United Nations-backed proposal for easing the international standoff over Iran’s [...]
On Wednesday, a gathering of mourning mothers and sisters of those executed on May 9th, 2010 Hrana News- The mothers and sisters of the prisoners who were executed on May 9th, will be gathering in a protest on Wedenesday May 19th, against the lack of delivery of their loved ones bodies by the Judiciary-Security Branch. [...]
Photo from Archive According to a report from the Turkish Newspaper Sabah and based on the confessions of a former Segeant who had previously worked in the Information Section of Security Police Forces of the city of Hakkâri* in the area of Yüksekova, they had killed fourty refugees while escaping (as traffickers) from the Iran-Turkey [...]
In a letter to Sadegh Larijani, head of Iranian judiciary, 175 Iranian Members of Parliament called for speeding up judicial actions against opposition leaders. Iranian Labour News Agency reports that the letter expresses dismay over delay in putting the “heads of sedition” on trial. The lawmakers condemn the recent court summoning of managing directors of [...]
Iranian Teachers Trade Association, a union Farzad Kamangar belonged to in Iranian Kurdistan, has published a statement on the execution of Kamangar and four other prisoners in Iran on May 9. The text of the statement, translated by Iran Labor Report, is as follows: Enlightened Women and Men, Noble and Enlightened Nation of Iran, The [...]
Opposition leader, MirHosein Mousavi said Iran’s Green Movement of reform has its roots in “religious thinking” of the populace and so long as the movement proceeds along this path, people will support it. Kaleme website quotes Mousavi saying that the reason people are “receptive” to the Green Movement is that “it matches their religious beliefs.” [...]
Shadi Sadr An Iranian court has convicted two activists in absentia and sentenced them to jail and lashes over a 2007 protest. Shadi Sadr, 35, to six, an award-winning women’s rights activist was sentences to six years in jail and 74 lashes for acting against national security and harming public order, her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafai, [...]
Islamic Republic security forces arrested Ejlal Qavami, spokesman for Kurdistan Human Rights Organization yesterday. Kordaneh website reports that his arrest appears to be connected with his interview with the media regarding the general public strike yesterday in Kurdish cities of Iran. Yesterday a number of Kurdish cities closed down all business and activity in protest [...]
A French lecturer charged with spying in Iran after last June’s disputed election has left the country, the French president’s office has said. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office said Clotilde Reiss would arrive in Paris at about 1300 (1100 GMT). She was sentenced to 10 years in jail but this was commuted to a fine of [...]