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  • RSF Urges the E. U. to Reconsider its "Constructive Dialogue" with Iran ("condemn this regime")

    06/08/2004 8:14:02 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 143+ views
    rsf.org ^ | june8, 2004
    RSF Urges the European Union to Reconsider its "Constructive Dialogue" with Iran June 08, 2004 Reporters Without Borders rsf.org Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of Reza Alijani, editor of the monthly Iran-e-Farda, and laureate of the Reporters Without Borders-Fondation de France 2001 press freedom award. He has been detained since 14 June 2003, together with Hoda Saber, one of the bosses of Iran-e-Farda and Taghi Rahmani, of the weekly Omid-e-Zangan. The case is murky in the extreme. Alijani is currently the only Reporters Without Borders laureate who remains behind bars. Initially held in solitary confinement and then...
  • How Kazemi was Murdered (Canadian photojournalist in Iran)

    05/22/2004 6:37:01 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 5 replies · 212+ views
    Ottawa Citizen ^ | May 22, 2004
    How Kazemi was Murdered May 22, 2004 The Ottawa Citizen Michael Petrou The murder of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran has been shrouded in denial and speculation -- until now. In exclusive interviews, other dissidents reveal what happened inside Tehran's notorious Evin prison last June. TEHRAN - Heshmatollah Tabarzadi will never forget Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi screaming in a nearby cell. Mr. Tabarzadi, an Iranian political dissident, was arrested last June on the same day as Ms. Kazemi and, like her, thrown in cellblock 209 of Tehran's Evin prison, where Ms. Kazemi would be detained, interrogated and eventually murdered....
  • Summary of Iran (Press) Stories in Today's Broadcasts (RadioFarda)

    04/27/2004 11:05:46 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 382+ views
    radiofarda.com ^ | April 27, 2004
    Press Freedom Society Meets with (Grand Ayatollah) Montazeri •The board members of the society for defense of press freedom met with high-ranking dissident cleric Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri in Qum. Defending freedom of the press is defense of people and the society, Montazeri said. Some officials consider themselves custodians of the people, whereas according to the law, all citizens have the right to express themselves freely, Montazeri added. The society for defense of press freedom holds annual meetings in Qum at the offices of various top clerics, Tehran-based lawyer and human rights activist Mohammad Seifzadeh who was present at the meeting,...
  • Tehran shuts down papers ahead of election

    02/19/2004 12:15:37 PM PST · by areafiftyone · 10 replies · 125+ views
    Iran's beleaguered reform movement on Thursday suffered a new blow ahead of Friday's parliamentary election as the judiciary moved against reformist newspapers, websites and campaign offices. Disillusionment among voters seems set to produce a far lower turnout than the 67 per cent who turned out for a reformist landslide in the last parliamentary elections four years ago. Neither the Yas-e No nor the Shargh daily appeared on Thursday after they carried long extracts of a letter from reformist parliamentary deputies criticising Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, in their editions the previous day. Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran's general prosecutor, also ordered...
  • Iran Dancer Detained After Performance

    12/25/2003 2:58:00 PM PST · by freedom44 · 21 replies · 199+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 12/25/03 | Yahoo
    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's best-known female dancer and 24 of her students have been detained on charges of dancing in public — for an all-female audience, her husband said Thursday. AP Photo Although there are no written laws against dancing, Iran's hard-line clerics have banned the activity, which they consider a promotion of moral corruption. Farzaneh Kaboli and 24 of her students were detained Wednesday night as they were performing folk dances on the second night of a two-week program at Tehran's prestigious Vahdat Hall, Hadi Marzban said. Marzban said the students were freed Thursday after signing statements pledging not...
  • Man could face death for car sticker

    12/18/2003 9:42:00 AM PST · by presidio9 · 33 replies · 331+ views
    Reuters ^ | Thu, Dec 18, 2003
    An Iranian man faces a possible lengthy prison term or even the death penalty for attaching a sticker to the rear window of his car proclaiming "The era of arrogant rulers is over". "My client faces jail for acting against national security just because of that sticker," attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told Reuters on Thursday. The charge of acting against national security normally carries a hefty prison sentence and in some cases has led to the death penalty being imposed. Dadkhah said Ali Akbar Najafi, 27, an unlicensed taxi (news - web sites) driver, was arrested in June in southern...
  • Reports of Riots/Uprising in Iran

    12/06/2003 4:50:15 PM PST · by forty_years · 5 replies · 203+ views
    www.netwmd.com ^ | December 6, 2003 | Andrew Jaffee
    Reports of Riots/Uprising in Iran By Andrew L. Jaffee, December 6, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The were two reports of "rioting" and "uprising" out of the Iranian province of Baluchistan yesterday. The WorldNetDaily.com reported 30 dead and 80 wounded in the disturbances which they termed an "uprising," while the BBC reported 5 dead in a "riot." Baluchistan has distinct ethnic groups, mainly Baluch/Baloch and some Pathan/Pakhtuns, and is spread across Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. The region has a long and rich history. Baluchis make up 2% of Iran's population. The BBC gave little detail, saying only that "clashes broke out...
  • Call For an End to Impunity for Murderers in Iran

    12/22/2003 7:24:45 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 124+ views
    The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | 11-21-03 | Reporters Without Borders
    Call for an End to Impunity for Murderers in Iran Reporters Without Borders/ RSF November 21, 2003 /Reporters Without Borders has called on the Iranian authorities to break the impunity enjoyed by murderers and especially those who instigated killings, on the fifth anniversary of the serial murders of journalists and intellectuals. In November and December 1998 several intellectuals and opposition figures were murdered in Iran, including Daryush and Parvaneh Forouhar, prominent liberal opposition figures, Majid Charif, editorial writer for the monthly Iran-é-Farda, writers and journalists Mohamad Mokhtari and Mohamad Jafar Pouyandeh. A few months earlier Pirouz Davani, editor-in-chief of the...
  • Iran Frees Berkeley Lecturer

    12/17/2003 7:27:50 PM PST · by nuconvert · 4 replies · 155+ views
    Iran Frees Berkeley Lecturer / Teacher had been held on spy charges SF Chronicle Charlie Goodyear, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, November 10, 2003 / A UC Berkeley lecturer held for nearly four months in an Iranian prison on espionage charges was released on Sunday and is prepared to fight a legal battle to clear his name, his friends and family members said. Dariush Zahedi, 37, was freed on $250,000 bail paid by his family and is still subject to a criminal prosecution. He was arrested on July 10 while on an annual trip to visit relatives. Although Zahedi, a vocal...
  • Appeal for Release of 11 Imprisoned Journalists to mark UN envoy's visit to Iran

    12/15/2003 1:50:41 PM PST · by nuconvert · 2 replies · 78+ views
    Appeal for Release of 11 Imprisoned Journalists to mark UN envoy's visit to Iran Payvand's Iran News 11/4/03 /Reporters Without Borders called today on the Iranian authorities to unconditionally free 11 jailed journalists during an official visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Ambeyi Ligabo. It called on them to allow the top UN envoy, who arrives in Teheran on 4 November, to meet the journalists, especially those being held in solitary confinement. There has been no news of one of them, Iraj Jamshidi, for over four months. The press freedom organisation also demanded that...
  • Iranians At Odds Over Jailed Lecturer

    12/12/2003 5:36:59 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 114+ views
    Iranians At Odds Over Jailed Lecturer The Washington Times Nov 1st, 2003/TEHRAN (AP) — Iranian hard-liners have refused to release a jailed University of California lecturer despite demands from government officials, a top lawmaker said yesterday, expressing fears he could meet the same fate as a Canadian photojournalist who was killed while in custody. Dariush Zahedi, an Iranian-born American citizen who lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, has been held since July, when he was detained on suspicion of espionage while visiting relatives in Iran. Mohsen Mirdamadi, who heads the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said...
  • Iranian Parliament Issues Stinging Kazemi Report

    12/10/2003 4:04:10 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 83+ views
    Iranian Parliament Issues Stinging Kazemi Report The Associated Press / The Globe and Mail October 28, 2003 / Tehran — Iran's reformist-dominated parliament on Tuesday implicated hardline Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi in the death of a Canadian photojournalist who died in custody last July. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian of Iranian origin, died July 10, about three weeks after being detained for taking photographs outside a Tehran prison during protests. An intelligence agent is charged with her alleged beating death. The parliament criticized Mr. Mortazavi for accusing Ms. Kazemi of spying for foreign intelligence agencies, lacking official permission to work and...
  • Berkeley Lecturer Held in Secret in Iran Jail

    12/05/2003 8:23:40 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 106+ views
    Berkeley Lecturer Held in Secret in Iran Jail From Iran Emrouz (Iran) - Translated by Behrouz Saba Oct 17, 2003 Dariush Zahedi, an Iranian-born political scientist and lecturer at UC Berkeley, has been in secret, solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin prison on espionage charges after arriving in his native country around late June of this year. What makes Zahedi's fate particularly worrisome is the utter silence that has surrounded his case for more than three months. Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-born naturalized Canadian journalist was killed from a blow to the head during interrogation after she was arrested in Tehran for...
  • Judge Orders Intelligence Agent Freed

    12/02/2003 3:08:36 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 100+ views
    Judge Orders Intelligence Agent Freed October 13, 2003 The Associated Press /Ali Akbar Dareini TEHRAN -- A judge on Monday ordered an Iranian intelligence agent charged in the murder of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist to be freed on bail. Lawyer Ghasem Shabani said his client, Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, would be released Tuesday after posting the equivalent of about $50,000 Cdn bail. On the first day of his open trial last Tuesday, Ahmadi pleaded not guilty to charges in the death of photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, 54, who died July 10 after suffering fatal head injuries during 77 hours of interrogation after...
  • EU to Call for Probe in Canadian's Death

    12/01/2003 8:24:42 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 84+ views
    EU to Call for Probe in Canadian's Death October 12, 2003 Reuters Sebastian Alison European Union foreign ministers are set to ask on Monday for an investigation into the role of the Tehran prosecutor's office in the death of a Canadian journalist, a draft EU document seen by Reuters shows. Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, agreed to represent in Iran's courts the family of photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian citizen of Iranian descent killed in custody in Tehran in June. The draft document, which diplomats said would likely be approved by...
  • Letter to EU Delegates Regarding the EU-Iran Human Rights Dialogue

    11/30/2003 8:12:16 PM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 122+ views
    Letter to EU Delegates Regarding the EU-Iran Human Rights Dialogue 9 October 2003 Minister Franco Frattini, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Italy Chris Patten Commissioner for External Relations European Union Pat Cox President of the European Parliament Your Excellencies, Human Rights Watch is writing to express grave concern about the status of persons currently detained in Iran for exercising their right to peaceful criticism of government policies or practices.
  • Kazemi Wrote About Prison Beating, Iranians Say

    11/30/2003 11:18:10 AM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 114+ views
    Kazemi Wrote About Prison Beating, Iranians Say National Post/October 09, 2003 Graeme Hamilton MONTREAL - The Montreal photojournalist killed while in custody in Tehran managed to write down details of a beating she received on the first day of her imprisonment, Iran's Intelligence Ministry has said. In a statement released after one of its agents went on trial on Tuesday for Zahra Kazemi's killing, the ministry said the victim's own account, written on June 24, was ignored by authorities investigating her death. "A letter written by Zahra Kazemi the day after her arrest said she had been beaten and thrown...
  • GOVERNMENT COMES OUT STRONGLY DEFENDING INTELLIGENCE MINISTRY

    11/30/2003 11:01:31 AM PST · by nuconvert · 113+ views
    GOVERNMENT COMES OUT STRONGLY DEFENDING INTELLIGENCE MINISTRY TEHRAN 8 Oct. (IPS) The raw between the leader-controlled Judiciary and the Executive escalated Wednesday to new heights after senior tenors from the government came out strongly in defending the Intelligence Ministry, accused of being behind the murder of Ms. Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-born, Canadian photojournalist killed in prison. The office of Tehran and the Islamic Revolution Court, accuses Mr. Mohammad Reza Aqdam Ahmadi, an employee of the Intelligence Ministry, for having killed the photographer. Ms. Kazemi was arrested on 23 June while taking pictures of the families of detained political prisoners demonstrating...
  • Ex-hostage Taker and Khatami Adviser Gets Five More Years Jail

    11/30/2003 10:55:17 AM PST · by nuconvert · 1 replies · 131+ views
    Ex-hostage Taker and Khatami Adviser Gets Five More Years Jail October 08, 2003 Reuters/MSNBC News TEHRAN -- Iran's hardline judiciary added five years to the jail sentence of dissident journalist Abbas Abdi for possession of secret documents, his lawyer said on Wednesday. ''Abdi was given five more years in prison in connection with that part of his file related to keeping secret documents,'' his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told Reuters without giving further details. Abdi received a four-and-a-half year jail term in April after publishing a survey which said three-quarters of Iranians favoured a resumption of talks with Washington. Judges said...
  • MOHSEN SAZEGARA RELEASED

    11/28/2003 3:29:41 PM PST · by nuconvert · 2 replies · 125+ views
    MOHSEN SAZEGARA RELEASED TEHRAN 7 Oct. (IPS) Mr. Mohsen Sazegara, a prominent dissident politician and journalist known for his outspoken criticism of the Islamic Republic's clerical leaders was released on bail on Monday after four months in jail, the British news agency Reuters quoted his brother as having announced. A co-founder of a new political party with Mr. Qasem Sho´leh Sa´di and some other “new reformers” who call for radical change in Iranian Constitution, Mr. Sazgara, a one-time press aide to the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was freed after his family paid the equivalent...