January 18th, 2012 – [Kaleme: Zahra Sadr] Mir Abdollah Mousavi, Opposition Leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s older brother is an old and ailing man who continues to work behind his small and humble neighborhood store and yet he too is not immune to the harassment by security forces who have approached him at his store […]
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Appeals Court Upheld Heavy Prison Terms for Labor Activists in Tabriz
The Appeals Court has upheld heavy prison sentences issued for four leftist labor activists from Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province.
Heavy Prison Sentences for Political Activists
Three political activists have received lashing heavy prison sentences.
Heavy Prison Terms for Labor Activists & Students in Tabriz
Shahrokh Zamani, Nima Pouryaghob, Mohammad Jarahi and Sasan Vahebivash have been sentenced to heavy prison terms in Tabriz, Iran.
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.