Twelve cultural and student activists have been rounded up in the towns of West Gilan, West Eivan and Kermanshah in Iran’s northern province of West Azerbaijan.
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EU says Assad must step down, plans more sanctions
The European Union told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to step down, following a similar call by the United States, and threatened to toughen its sanctions against his regime.
More than 30 journalists languishing in Iranian prisons
Only in the past year, more than 10 journalists who were previouslyreleased on bail, were jailed after their sentences were finalized…
The Night of Mirrors
Poem by: Hila SedighiEnglish translation by: Siavosh Jalili, Persian2English It is nighttime and my two hands are tied.All the bridges behind us have collapsed.To the gallows my head I dragged.
Committee to Protect Journalist: Iran must work toward improving press freedom
The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has sent a letter to Ahmed Shaheed,U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, to provide him with an assessment of the country’s situation of press freedom ahead of his report on human rights in Iran to the U.N. General Assembly in September, the CPJ’s […]
Number Of Iranians Applying For Asylum In Europe Rises
A group of Iranian refugees, some of them with their mouths sewn shut, protest outside the UN refugee agency office in Athens demanding asylum.August 18, 2011The number of Iranians seeking asylum in European countries has risen steadily over the past two years, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Devotee Dervishes were summoned to Semnan Intelligence service
Intelligence Agency of Semnan City summoned and interrogated some of the Gonabadi Dervishes of this city because of publishing their Iraqi war injury documents in one of the human rights sites.
Iranian Censors’ Heavy Hand Falls On A Persian Classic
By Charles RecknagelMany authoritarian regimes censor books for political reasons.But Iran goes so far in also tampering with books for self-claimed religious reasons that the Islamic republic’s censors form a league of their own.
Iran’s Newest Enemy: Water Fights
Don’t let them catch you with a squirt gun…. It appears that water fighting and water guns are becoming sensitive issues in Iran.Earlier this month, a number of young people were arrested in Tehran after taking part in a water fight in public. They were accused of violating Islamic principles and norms.
Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian In Critical Health Condition, Medical Furlough Is Denied
Mehdi Mahmoudian a journalist and a member of the “Association for the Defense of Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Iran” and a member of the Reformist party “Participation Front” is in critical health condition at Rejaei Shahr prison.