Human Rights Council creates mandate on Iran, extends mandate on Democratic People's
24 March 2011
Council Extends Mandates on Drinking Water, Freedom of Opinion, Human Rights Defenders, Minority Issues and Violence against Women
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted nine resolutions, in which it created a Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, the Independent Expert on minority issues, and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.
Iran hinders web searches leading up to planned rally, sources sayFrom Reza Sayah, CNN
February 12, 2011 -- Updated 2327 GMT (0727 HKT)
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NEW: U.S. condemns Iran for attempting to stop protests
The word "Bahman," the current month on the Persian calendar, is blocked
The rally was planned by opposition leaders, called "enemies of the revolution"
WikiLeaks cables: BP sufferedblowout
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Embassy cables reveal energy firm 'fortunate' to have
evacuated workers safely after blast similar to Deepwater
Horizon disaster
• The Guardian, Thursday 16 December 2010
Eleven people died
when BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and it caused the worst oil spill in US
history.
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Country Reports on Terrorism 2009
August 5, 2010
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on 4 September after her house and office were searched on 28 August and she was summoned to appear in court. She is currently in solitary confinement in Evin prison in Tehran. Amnesty International considers her to be a prisoner of conscience who is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
Amnesty International: Iranian journalist and human rights defender set to face trial
3 September 2010
AI Index: PRE01/304/2010
An Iranian journalist and human rights defender set to face trial tomorrow on a series of charges must be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today.
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a member of the Iranian organization, the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), has been detained since 20 December 2009.
Iranians involved in 1988 massacres remain in public life GEOFFREY ROBERTSON June 14, 2010
The anniversary at the weekend of Iran's rigged election turned the spotlight on the man who approved it - the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei - and the man who was cheated of the presidency, Mir Hossein Mousavi.
If there was justice in the world, both men would be still be serving prison sentences, along with Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a number of the nation's top judges and politicians. All were complicit in one of the gravest crimes against humanity since World War II, the mass slaughter of political prisoners at the close of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'involved in massacre', says report
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the leader of Iran's opposition green movement was involved in the massacre of more than 10,000 political prisoners in 1988, according to a report.
Mr Mousavi, the defeated candidate in last June's presidential election, served as Iran's prime minister when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime's spiritual leader, issued a fatwa that sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death without trial, according to the report by one of Britain's leading human rights lawyers.
Mr Mousavi is one of several prominent Iranian politicians who are accused of implementing the order. According to a detailed report published by Geoffrey Robertson QC, who specialises in human rights law, the prisoners were executed for refusing to recant their political and religious beliefs.
International institutions defending security and Human Rights Human Rights Organisations
To the attention of:
18 May 2010
International institutions defending security and Human Rights
Human Rights Organisations
Democratic and freedom seeking parties and organizations
Political, intellectual and freedom seeking activists
Kurdish nation in Iran have been living under suppression for centuries and they have sacrificed thousands for their very basic rights. During the governments prior to the Islamic Republic as well the Islamic Republic era have Kurds being treated as second class citizens,
they have been persecuted, all their rights have been revoked and their basic demands have been answered by bullets.
Iran detains Iraqi soldier in border shooting incident
ARBIL, Iraq
Fri May 14, 2010 8:32am EDT
Sun, May 9 2010
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian troops fired into the air and detained an Iraqi border patrol officer after mistaking Iraqi border guards for Kurdish rebels on a northern stretch of the two countries' border, officials said Friday.
All the main Kurdish parties deny that five people hanged in Tehran for 'anti-revolutionary activities' were involved in terrorism
Iranian Kurds are organising protests today after the execution of five people, including a woman, who were convicted of membership of a terrorist group or anti-revolutionary activity.
Farzad Kamangar: EI Outrage at Iranian Teacher's Execution
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Source: Education International
Education International is deeply troubled to hear reports that Iranian teacher trade unionist Farzad Kamangar was among five people who were summarily executed in secret on 9 May.
Public diplomacy takes a pro-Islamist tilt
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Voice of America is becoming the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Recent programming choices have revealed a creeping bias toward opponents of the pro-democracy movement and de facto supporters of the regime. This ill befits the VOA mission and the purpose of U.S. public diplomacy.
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The German news magazine Der Spiegel has reported that Saudi Arabia is hoping Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, and is even prepared to open its skies to Israeli warplanes to allow such an operation to take place. Similar reports were published in 2009, and denied by both Israel and Saudi
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Barbara Lochbihler
MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
His Eminence Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Most Honourable Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, The Chief of the Judiciary
His Excellency Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
His Excellency Manouchehr Mottaghi , Minister of Foreign Affairs
