Hunger strike by Gonabadi dervishes, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri enters fourth day.
Tag: Day
No Celebration of 2012 World Human Rights Day in Iran
Every year on December 10, countries around the world honor World Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nation’s focus was the right to all people “to make their voices heard in public life and be included in political decision-making.
International Human Rights Day
Because on this date in 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The history is well covered in this Wikipedia article, so I will not recapitulate it.
Mark National Student Day by freeing prisoners of conscience
Dozens of student activists kept behind bars in Iran, some since 2009, must be freed immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International urged on Thursday, as thousands prepared to mark National Student Day at universities across the country.
PEN Day Of The Imprisoned Writer: Jailed Voices That Must Not Be Silenced
“When your heart trembles for the rights of another human, that is when you begin to slip, that is when the interrogations begin…. When you find faith in people and believe in humanity and nothing else, that is when you commit your first crime.”
Saluting Cyrus the Great on His Day: October 29
October 29, the “Cyrus the Great Day” And the anniversary of his issuing the first declaration of human rights
Rumi Commemoration Day
Come, come, whoever you are. Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come… -Rumi (Also known as Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi) Mevlana Celaddiin-i Rumi is a 13th century Muslim saint and […]
International Day of Peace
(Not to be confused with World Day of Peace.) The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is observed annually on 21 September.
Sanctions cut Iran’s July oil exports to near 1 million barrels per day
Iran’s daily oil exports in July could fall below half the average shipped in 2011 before tough new Western sanctions stemmed the flow.
Drying of Lake Oroumiyeh protested on Environment Day
Demonstrators gathered at El Gölü park in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Monday to protest against the drying of Lake Oroumiyeh.