Iranian lawmakers have drafted an emergency bill calling on the Foreign Ministry to expel the British ambassador to Tehran after Britain joined other Western powers to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over that country’s disputed nuclear program.
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Iranian activists condemn military threats against Iran
A group of 110 activists in Iran has issued a statement condemning the military threats against their country.
Iranian official’s statement at UN cannot conceal persecution of defence lawyers
Amnesty International – Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a lawyer or he is a defender of human rights.”
Iranian Official at the UN Hurls Baseless Accusations at Top Lawyer and Opposition Leaders
(16 November 2011) Iranian authorities should stop misrepresenting their human rights record in order to deflect international criticism and justify widely reported illegal detentions, said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today.
HAKIM NEZAMI GANJAVI
Life Nezami was born in Ganja, one of the major cities of the Atabekan-e-Azerbaijan, part of the Seljuk Empire, where he remained his whole life. Nizami was orphaned early and was raised by his maternal uncle Khwaja Umar who afforded him an excellent education. His mother, named Ra’isa, was of a Kurdish background and […]
Iranian refugees stranded in quake-stricken city
Iranian refugees in Van, the Turkish city near Iran’s borders that was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, have no means of leaving the area.
Another Iranian journalist sentenced to prison
Iranian journalist Mehran Faraji received a confirmed prison sentence from the appellate court today.
Government crackdown on Iranian activists continues
The Islamic Republic continues its crackdown on political activists with another arrest in Mashhad and three more in Tabriz.
Iranian Authorities Pressuring Jailed Christian Pastor to Convert to Islam, Sources Say
Fox News – Government officials in Iran are trying to convince a jailed pastor to return to Islam as he waits for the nation’s supreme leader to decide whether he should be executed for converting to Christianity, sources close to the case told FoxNews.com.
Reformist figure rejects court’s legitimacy
Ebrahim Yazdi, Secretary General of the reformist Freedom Movement group, announced yesterday that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the Revolutionary Court to process his case.