Tag: country

U.S. Issues Country Reports On Human Rights Practices (Situation of Dervish Lawyers)

  The U.S. State Department has released its “Country Reports On Human Rights Practices” for 2012, highlighting crackdowns on civil society, struggles for democratic change, and threats to freedom of expression. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented the reports to the media in Washington on April 19. The document states that “governments continued to […]

Mousavi’s Senior Adviser Amir Arjomand : “Democracy Is Not A Commodity to Be Concocted in One Country & Imported to Another!”

  October 29th, 2011 – In an interview with the television stations BBC Farsi and VOA on Wednesday October 26th, 2011,  U.S.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the U.S. had refrained from supporting the Green movement in the past in order to comply with the movement’s wishes.