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Reports
According to the latest report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 43 journalists behind bars, Iran currently ranks as the worst country in the world with the most imprisoned journalists. The latest arrests occur as conditions worsen for journalists behind bars in Rajai Shahr and Evin prisons. And, the pressures on their families and loved ones has also increased. Imprisoned journalists in Iran face severe restrictions without the ability to take advantage of furlough.
January 18, 2012: Three more Iranian journalists have been arrested in the past 24 hours. Their names are: Saham[aldin] Bourghani, Parastoo Dokouhaki, and Marzieh Rasouli.
Journalist Fatemeh Kheradmand has been arrested
January 18, 2012: According to a phone conversation that Masoud Lavasani had with his wife yesterday morning, Fatemeh Kheradmand is not doing well. Her husband has expressed worry regarding his wife’s situation in prison, especially because it seems that the jailed journalist is being deprived of the medication she requires. The reason for Kheradmand’s arrest remains unknown. Their 3-year-old son Matin is also very worried. According to Lavasani, Matin constantly asks about the condition of his dear mother. Lavasani hopes that his wife doesn’t suffer from a convulsion in prison. |
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The Telegraph: A father who found his son dying on the street amid the rioting in Birmingham has warned the Asian and black communities to avoid becoming embroiled in race riots that have previously scarred the city.
Haroon Jahan, 21, was one of three young Asian men killed when a car ploughed into them as they were out trying to prevent their shops and properties from being looted.
After police arrested a black man allegedly driving the car, fears of racial tensions already simmering between the two communities threatened to explode with talk of retribution and revenge attacks.
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It’s been a while that Qom Seminary (Hawzeh Elmieh Qom) is claiming to unveil a number of demons and seditionists in its international exhibitions and fairs.
Such exhibitions have been extensively held all over Iran with different names such as Digital media Fair, Holy Defence Exhibition, Soft War Exhibition and International Exhibition of Quran.
The designers of such events in Qom Seminary have specifically focused on character assassination of national and international intellectuals, religious and spiritual leaders and even the U.S and European politicians and presidents.
A copy of the complete report is available at the following link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?as6jvyxu23lh3sq
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(16 May 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran endorsed the call, by prominent prisoners of conscience, for an investigation into torture and mass due process violations and infringements on protections in Iran’s Citizen’s Bill of Rights following the 2009 presidential election. The Campaign called on the Central Committee charged with implementing the Citizen’s Bill of Rights to conduct a full and independent investigation into all allegations of abuse, and overturn convictions of political prisoners based on tainted evidence.
On 11 May 2011, twenty-six prominent Iranian prisoners of conscience, including journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, student activist Zia Nabavi, and human rights defender Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi, wrote a letter to the head of the Central Committee charged with implementing the Citizen’s Bill of Rights.
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May 15, 2011
In a letter addressed to the nation of Iran, the Grand Ayatollahs, the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and 
Human Rights Organizations across the globe, the female political prisoners transferred a week ago from Rajai Shahr prison in the city of Karaj, to Gharchak prison in Varamin [industrial city in the outskirts of Tehran], provide a harrowing account of the dire conditions at Gharchak, vowing to launch a hunger strike, protesting the violation of their rights.
It is worth mentioning that the families of these female political prisoners, also recently wrote a letter addressed to Dr. Mohammad Hassan Ziaeefar, the Head of the Iranian Islamic Human Rights Commission entitled: “Gharchak Prison in Varamin a Humanitarian Disaster Waiting to Unfold” demanding immediate attention to the dire condition of their loved ones behind bars.
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Protesters in the US join calls for Gaddafi to quit as Libyan leader
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has gone on state television to proclaim that his father remained in charge with the army's backing and would "fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet".
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's comments came after anti-government unrest spread to the capital Tripoli and protesters seized military bases and weapons.
In the regime's first comments on the six days of demonstrations, the younger Gaddafi warned the protesters on Sunday night that they risked igniting a civil war in which Libya's oil wealth "will be burned".
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January 2, 2011

Worldwide statistics indicates, the Islamic Republic of Iran was placed in second place in execution rate after China. Iran also remains one of few dozen countries that runs this inhumane punishment.
RAHANA Agency, has gathered the monthly statistical execution report in accordance with official sources and the court system. Accordingly, 26 executions in April, 18 in May, 40 in June, 19 in July, 21 in August, 11 in September, 24 in October, 12 in November, and 19 executions in December have been reported.
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December 28, 2010

Ali Saremi’s daughter: The news of execution was given to us by my father’s cell mates, not by authorities/My mother was detained
Zeynab Saremi, the daughter of Ali Saremi, the prisoner who was executed Tuesday morning on the charge of Moharabeh [enmity with God] was in front of Evin prison when she told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) that the authorities refrained from giving the news of her father’s execution, and the family was informed through Mr. Saremi’s cell mate that the death sentence was possibly carried out. That is why [the family] headed immediately to Evin prison. According to Zeynab Saremi, even the lawyer was not aware of the time of execution. [Translator note: According to the Islamic Republic of Iran's own rules, 48 hours notice is required to be given to the lawyer of the defendant prior to the execution. This rule is repeatedly ignored by Iranian authorities to pave way for secret political executions].
She added that the security forces have arrested her mother, sister, and some of the friends that were accompanying them in front of Evin prison. She was told [by prison authorities] to either get in the police van or leave the prison premises. She told ICHRI that she is waiting to receive her father’s body.
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Iranian opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi warned Green supporters against “staged disturbances” by Iranian security forces with the approach of the National Student Day in December.
Recently Tehran security forces set up a “manoeuvre” by staging a street carnival ridiculing the post-election protests of 2009.
Mousavi maintained that such “staged disturbances” could easily be use to “deceive public perception and security forces in order to settle new political scores.”
The opposition leader went on to criticize the government’s handling of the restructuring subsidies asking them: “Why don’t you let people know what you are planning to do with the money that you are cutting from people’s pockets through scrapping government subsidies after you have weakened the parliament and the councils, and omitted the role of Budget and Planning organizations?”
The Ahmadinejad administration is cutting Iran’s extensive government subsidies that have kept the price of energy and food staples down for years. Ahmadinejad has fought hard against the parliament to avoid accountability regarding the handling of the lucrative budget surplus that the plan will create for the government.
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By Omid Nikfarjam is a Prague-based Iranian journalist and translator who has published over 15 books, among them Persian translations of works by J. D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, and Truman Capote.
Spare a thought for Iran’s literary censors – unloved by writers and publishers alike, they have thousands of works to read through, so much so that the piles of books have spilled out from their rooms at the culture ministry into the corridors.
Figures from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance show that the country has some 7,000 publishing firms. Take just two of these companies – one of them says it has about 70 novels and short story collections currently pending approval from the censors. The other says it has had between 50 and 70 books awaiting review at any one time for the past two years.
Supposing that just 1,000 publishers each deliver five books a year to the ministry’s book department, that comes to 5,000 a year, plus the many inevitably left over from previous years. Writers and translators routinely wait for one, two or even three years for a decision on the suitability of their books. |
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October 28, 2010

HELSINKI (Reuters) – A former senior diplomat at Iran‘s embassy in Helsinki, who resigned and joined the opposition, said Thursday he had been granted political asylum by Finland only weeks after applying for it.
Hossein Alizadeh, deputy head of mission at the Iranian embassy until early last month, was at least the third Iranian diplomat this year to seek political asylum in Europe, all saying they were protesting against electoral and human rights abuses.
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