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While chanting anti-government slogans, more than one thousand students of Tehran University dormitory (Kouye Daneshgah) rush into Amirabad Street and clashed with the special guard force during their demonstration. The special guard suppressive forces beat the students and arrested a number of them. Based on received report the demonstration started at Kouye Daneshgah. First, the protesting students staged a hunger strike and threw out their food; then gathered at front gate of Kouye Daneshgah and chanted slogans against Ahmadinejad and other mullahs’ regime’s leaders.The suppressive agents of State Security Force (SSF) closed the main gate and prevented the students to exit; but the angry students overcame the agents and rushed into Amirabad Street and demonstrated there. The mullahs’ regime sent the Special Guard forces to that place and the protesiting students clashed with them. The students, whose number exceeded one thousand, continued their demonstration, during which a number of them were severely beaten by the Special Guard. According to news more than 1500 students were outside again on Sunday chanting anti government slogans. They clashed with the security forces and a number of students were injured or arrested.
Italian Human Rights Committee Condemns Death Sentences in Iran
The head of human rights committee of the Italian Parliament described the human rights condition in Iran highly critical and said Iranian regime is using death sentence and executions to create the atmosphere of fear and horror and to silence its opponents, Radio Farda reported on Sunday.The head of Human Rights Committee of the Italian Parliament who made a trip last week to Iran, referring to extensive violation of human rights in Iran after saying these kind of visits had been fruitless and vain, said: ' In Iran, contrary to other countries that try to reduce the number of death sentences, the number of people executed in Iran last year increased %100.He also said: “We told Iranian officials that the death sentences issued for two Kurdish journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Hiva Boutimar who at the most were members of a political organization is unacceptable.”
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Adnkronos International reported on Jan 25th that the Iranian authorities are looking at new restrictions that will create different school textbooks for boys and girls. Ali Reza Ali Ahmadi, responsible to the interim public education minister, told a seminar on textbooks, there was a need to provide students with books according to "the requirements of age and sex" to satisfy their particular needs. "The spiritual, physical, and mental needs of boys and girls are not identical, and therefore textbooks that give them information cannot be the same," Ali Ahmadi told the seminar.
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Reuters reported on Friday that proposed new United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program call for travel bans and asset freezes for specific Iranian officials and vigilance on all banks in Iran, according to a draft text. The text of "elements" of a third round of sanctions, obtained by Reuters on Friday, was agreed by Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia and China and will be the basis of a resolution intended for the Security Council to pass in the next few weeks.The foreign ministers of the five permanent Security Council members and Germany agreed on the outline in Berlin on Tuesday and their text was circulated on Friday to the 10 non permanent council members. Western countries say Iran's refusal to stop enriching uranium is behind their suspicion that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons. "It's a strong draft proposal which demonstrates the continuity of the approach of the international community," French Ambassador to the United Nations Jean-Maurice Ripert said in a statement. "We are sending a very clear signal to Iran and we are increasing the pressure on Iran," he said. "Iran must respect its obligations." The proposal says the resolution will demand again that Iran halt enrichment immediately and will include a list of specific individuals whose travel should be restricted and assets frozen. Their names were not immediately available.The draft says they are individuals linked to "Iran's proliferation sensitive activities or for the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems ... (or) procurement of the prohibited items, goods, equipment, materials or technology." Among the specific measures, the proposal "calls upon states to exercise vigilance over the activities of financial institutions ... with all banks domiciled in Iran."As expected, it says countries should be especially vigilant regarding two large Iranian banks -- Bank Melli and Bank Saderat -- though it does not ban transactions with them as the four Western powers had wanted. The proposal also urges countries to inspect cargo going into and coming out of Iran if they are suspicious of its contents and to be cautious about granting export credits or guarantees to companies doing business there. The proposal says the council wants a report within 90 days on whether Iran has suspended enrichment from Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N.'s Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. It says the aim of such talks, which would only begin once Iran halted enrichment, would be a resolution of the standoff "which would allow for the development of all-round relations and wider cooperation with Iran based on mutual respect."
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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A Student activist killed under torture in western Iran
A Kurdish student was brutally killed in custody at the Iranian intelligence ministry’s detention centre in Sanandaj where he was taken after his arrest thirteen days ago. Ebrahim Lotfollahi was a well known activist from Payam Nour University in Sanandaj, capital of the Iranian province of Kurdistan. Ebrahim’s parents who saw him for the last time after his arrest on last Wednesday told the media that “their boy showed evident signs of torture and abuse”. Regime refused to deliver his body to his family. As soon as news spread about Ebriahim’s death, dozens of students gathered at his university campus. Iranian regime’s suppressive forces have staged an unannounced martial law in the city in fear of public anger and protests. The students blame Ebrahim’s death on Mehdi Mola vali, from the office of the intelligence ministry, who reportedly conducts interrogations of political detainees and is said to use violence to obtain confessions.
Amnesty Urges Iranian regime to Stop Stoning Executions
On Tuesday, January 15, news agencies quoted right groups that the 'Amnesty International' has condemned execution by stoning in Iran and called it one of the worst types of execution. In its statement, AI called on the Iranian regime to rule out stoning from its judiciary rules. 'Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally execution by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the death penalty,' the rights group said in a 30-page report on the practice. It was also mentioned in the report that the Iranian judiciary system assured the rights group 'Amnesty' five years ago to stop implementing stoning whereas in the last few months many stoning in Iran were reported.
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The Associated France Press reported on Friday that an Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said. Mehrnoushe Solouki, a 38-year-old graduate student from Montreal, Canada, was arrested in February in Iran while working on a documentary film on the Iran-Iraq war. Solouki was freed from jail in March after posting bail and had since been under house arrest in Tehran. Iranian authorities do not recognize dual citizenship and insisted Solouki was an Iranian national. "We are pleased that Madame Solouki is returning to France," said French foreign ministry spokeswoman Pascale Andreani. Solouki was arrested after interviewing relatives of members of Iran's armed opposition, the People's Mujahedeen. Iranian authorities confiscated her notes and film footage and called her in for questioning. Solouki said in November that Iranian authorities had accused her of "attempting to produce a propaganda film." She has complained of being held in inhumane conditions, sleeping on the floor of a jail cell and being subjected to daily interrogations.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: Paris agrees with passing a new UN resolution against the Iranian regime in the Security Council to impose further punishments by the European Union. He said that a firm position has to be taken before the Iranian regime to make sure it is not after acquiring nuclear weapon. Sarkozy specified that the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has not made any changes in French policy regarding Iran. He asked the Iranian regime to end the international concerns regarding its nuclear programs. French president also asked the Iranian regime to give up fomenting violence in Iraq and Lebanon as well as helping Taliban in Afghanistan.
A Student activist killed under torture in western Iran
A Kurdish student was brutally killed in custody at the Iranian intelligence ministry’s detention centre in Sanandaj where he was taken after his arrest thirteen days ago. Ebrahim Lotfollahi was a well known activist from Payam Nour University in Sanandaj, capital of the Iranian province of Kurdistan. Ebrahim’s parents who saw him for the last time after his arrest on last Wednesday told the media that “their boy showed evident signs of torture and abuse”. Regime refused to deliver his body to his family. As soon as news spread about Ebriahim’s death, dozens of students gathered at his university campus. Iranian regime’s suppressive forces have staged an unannounced martial law in the city in fear of public anger and protests. The students blame Ebrahim’s death on Mehdi Mola vali, from the office of the intelligence ministry, who reportedly conducts interrogations of political detainees and is said to use violence to obtain confessions.
Amnesty Urges Iranian regime to Stop Stoning Executions
On Tuesday, January 15, news agencies quoted right groups that the 'Amnesty International' has condemned execution by stoning in Iran and called it one of the worst types of execution. In its statement, AI called on the Iranian regime to rule out stoning from its judiciary rules. 'Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally execution by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the death penalty,' the rights group said in a 30-page report on the practice. It was also mentioned in the report that the Iranian judiciary system assured the rights group 'Amnesty' five years ago to stop implementing stoning whereas in the last few months many stoning in Iran were reported.
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The Associated France Press reported on Friday that an Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said. Mehrnoushe Solouki, a 38-year-old graduate student from Montreal, Canada, was arrested in February in Iran while working on a documentary film on the Iran-Iraq war. Solouki was freed from jail in March after posting bail and had since been under house arrest in Tehran. Iranian authorities do not recognize dual citizenship and insisted Solouki was an Iranian national. "We are pleased that Madame Solouki is returning to France," said French foreign ministry spokeswoman Pascale Andreani. Solouki was arrested after interviewing relatives of members of Iran's armed opposition, the People's Mujahedeen. Iranian authorities confiscated her notes and film footage and called her in for questioning. Solouki said in November that Iranian authorities had accused her of "attempting to produce a propaganda film." She has complained of being held in inhumane conditions, sleeping on the floor of a jail cell and being subjected to daily interrogations.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: Paris agrees with passing a new UN resolution against the Iranian regime in the Security Council to impose further punishments by the European Union. He said that a firm position has to be taken before the Iranian regime to make sure it is not after acquiring nuclear weapon. Sarkozy specified that the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has not made any changes in French policy regarding Iran. He asked the Iranian regime to end the international concerns regarding its nuclear programs. French president also asked the Iranian regime to give up fomenting violence in Iraq and Lebanon as well as helping Taliban in Afghanistan.
Monday, January 14, 2008
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More than 300 Residents of Qaemshahr gathered outside the governorates office building yesterday to protest against the government’s inaction to resolve fuel shortages after a gas supply cut off over the past two weeks. The protesters announced it’s been 13 days since their gas had been cut off and their living situation has paralyzed, but no measure had been taken by the regime’s officials.Also the people of Gorgan gathered outside the gas company of the city and protested against gas supply cut off. They said: The gas cut off along with severe cold weather which has been unprecedented in the last 39 years has made life overbearing for the people.Some angry people from Uroumiyeh who had been waiting in the line for gasoline and gas, were harassed by the State security Force (SSF), therefore the people confronted with suppressive forces.And the Uroumiyeh University students protested against the fuel crisis with staging a sit-in in front of the governorship building of that city. The protesting students asked for recess of Uroumiyeh’s universities until the problem is resolved.
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The Amir-Kabir student’s website on Jan. 8 reported: In a letter to humanitarian organizations, the families of the students who were detained in the notorious Evin prison, called for immediate action for saving the lives of their detained children. In part of the letter they wrote: “Today, the brave children of Iran in universities are being arrested and imprisoned on charges of commemorating the Students’ Day. The servants of the mullahs’ regime ban the students to be visited by their families. We call the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, UN high commissioner of Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, the Amnesty International and all human rights organizations and humanitarian institutes in the world to help us release our children.
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Iranian regime amputated the right hand and left foot of five people in the southeastern city of Zahedan, capital of the restive Sistan-Baluchestan province. The men were identified as M.A. Jalali, A.B. Righi, A. Righi, A.R. Roudini and D. Pahlevan, the Associated France Press reported.The Agency added: The amputations come amid a campaign the authorities say is aimed at improving security in society which has led to an increasing number of executions in the Islamic republic, many of them in public. AFP added: According to another report, Iran hanged a 53 year old man in the northern town of Gorgan whose name was not released. Iranian regime also hanged in public in the central city of Arak on Sunday a former police official and executed another person in prison.
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Authorities in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, hanged three individuals on Wednesday, state media reported. The three unnamed individuals were hanged in the city of Birjand, according to the government-owned news agency Fars. They were accused of drug trafficking. Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug smuggling.
More than 300 Residents of Qaemshahr gathered outside the governorates office building yesterday to protest against the government’s inaction to resolve fuel shortages after a gas supply cut off over the past two weeks. The protesters announced it’s been 13 days since their gas had been cut off and their living situation has paralyzed, but no measure had been taken by the regime’s officials.Also the people of Gorgan gathered outside the gas company of the city and protested against gas supply cut off. They said: The gas cut off along with severe cold weather which has been unprecedented in the last 39 years has made life overbearing for the people.Some angry people from Uroumiyeh who had been waiting in the line for gasoline and gas, were harassed by the State security Force (SSF), therefore the people confronted with suppressive forces.And the Uroumiyeh University students protested against the fuel crisis with staging a sit-in in front of the governorship building of that city. The protesting students asked for recess of Uroumiyeh’s universities until the problem is resolved.
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The Amir-Kabir student’s website on Jan. 8 reported: In a letter to humanitarian organizations, the families of the students who were detained in the notorious Evin prison, called for immediate action for saving the lives of their detained children. In part of the letter they wrote: “Today, the brave children of Iran in universities are being arrested and imprisoned on charges of commemorating the Students’ Day. The servants of the mullahs’ regime ban the students to be visited by their families. We call the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, UN high commissioner of Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, the Amnesty International and all human rights organizations and humanitarian institutes in the world to help us release our children.
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Iranian regime amputated the right hand and left foot of five people in the southeastern city of Zahedan, capital of the restive Sistan-Baluchestan province. The men were identified as M.A. Jalali, A.B. Righi, A. Righi, A.R. Roudini and D. Pahlevan, the Associated France Press reported.The Agency added: The amputations come amid a campaign the authorities say is aimed at improving security in society which has led to an increasing number of executions in the Islamic republic, many of them in public. AFP added: According to another report, Iran hanged a 53 year old man in the northern town of Gorgan whose name was not released. Iranian regime also hanged in public in the central city of Arak on Sunday a former police official and executed another person in prison.
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Authorities in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, hanged three individuals on Wednesday, state media reported. The three unnamed individuals were hanged in the city of Birjand, according to the government-owned news agency Fars. They were accused of drug trafficking. Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug smuggling.
Monday, January 07, 2008
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Iranian authorities hanged two men Monday morning in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. Both men were executed in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan, the official news agency IRNA said. They were accused of drug trafficking. Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug smuggling. Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
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The Iranian judiciary in Fars province sentenced two young men to death by throwing them from the heights. Their names are Tayyeb and Javan. Another young man was also sentenced to death in Tehran. His name is Omid and he is 20 years old.
Iranian regime also hanged 13 people on Wednesday including a mother of two young children, the Associated France Press reported. . RAhele Zamani 27, a mother of 2 young children aged 3 and 5 was hanged on Wednesday despite international pressure on the Iranian regime to hult her execution.
The mullahs’ henchmen hanged in public three men identified as Safar AL Nazari, 36, Sohbat’ollah Maleki, 39 and Habib Oliaee in the Motahari Square in the holy city of Qom, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.'The death sentence for these (three) people was issued by Qom’s Islamic revolutionary court ... and was carried out this morning,' the mullahs’ judiciary official Hoda Tarshizi said.Two prisoners were also hanged in the prison yard in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the state-run news agency Fars reported on MondayThe executions, the first reported in 2008, were the latest in a growing number of executions in the Islamic republic as the authorities impose a drive they say is aimed at improving security in society.Human rights groups have accused Iran of excessive resort to the death penalty, but the authorities say capital punishment is an effective deterrent that is only used after an exhaustive judicial process, added AFP.
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According to reports, on Dec. 31 the people of Golestan, Mazandaran and Semnan (northeast provinces of in Iran) staged gatherings in protest of gas cut off and problems due to shortages of heating in freezing weather in front of the governors’ offices in their cities. Reports indicate many schools, hospitals, bakeries, and industrial units in various cities in these provinces are closed and the people are suffering from terrible conditions. On Monday people in Shahroud gathered in front of state gas company and protested gas cut and officials’ carelessness on the matter. The manger of Gas Company in Shahroud in an interview with the state run Fars news agency said: the gas is cut off in %50 of the city and it might extend to other parts of the city too. Ali Ashghar Mayeli manager of Gas Company in Ghaemshahr said about 30% of gas consumers are cut off. Reports also indicate Iranian regime increased the number of suppressive forces in front of governors’ offices to stop spread of protests.
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A German diplomat has been ordered to leave Iran, a German news agency said on Saturday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat from Germany in July. The Hamburg-based weekly Der Spiegel reported last month that an Iranian official was forced to leave Germany last summer after he tried to acquire components for Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.German news agency DPA reported on Saturday that the German diplomat had had to leave Tehran and it was thought this was a result of the expulsion of the Iranian official from Germany.
Iranian authorities hanged two men Monday morning in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. Both men were executed in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan, the official news agency IRNA said. They were accused of drug trafficking. Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug smuggling. Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
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The Iranian judiciary in Fars province sentenced two young men to death by throwing them from the heights. Their names are Tayyeb and Javan. Another young man was also sentenced to death in Tehran. His name is Omid and he is 20 years old.
Iranian regime also hanged 13 people on Wednesday including a mother of two young children, the Associated France Press reported. . RAhele Zamani 27, a mother of 2 young children aged 3 and 5 was hanged on Wednesday despite international pressure on the Iranian regime to hult her execution.
The mullahs’ henchmen hanged in public three men identified as Safar AL Nazari, 36, Sohbat’ollah Maleki, 39 and Habib Oliaee in the Motahari Square in the holy city of Qom, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.'The death sentence for these (three) people was issued by Qom’s Islamic revolutionary court ... and was carried out this morning,' the mullahs’ judiciary official Hoda Tarshizi said.Two prisoners were also hanged in the prison yard in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the state-run news agency Fars reported on MondayThe executions, the first reported in 2008, were the latest in a growing number of executions in the Islamic republic as the authorities impose a drive they say is aimed at improving security in society.Human rights groups have accused Iran of excessive resort to the death penalty, but the authorities say capital punishment is an effective deterrent that is only used after an exhaustive judicial process, added AFP.
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According to reports, on Dec. 31 the people of Golestan, Mazandaran and Semnan (northeast provinces of in Iran) staged gatherings in protest of gas cut off and problems due to shortages of heating in freezing weather in front of the governors’ offices in their cities. Reports indicate many schools, hospitals, bakeries, and industrial units in various cities in these provinces are closed and the people are suffering from terrible conditions. On Monday people in Shahroud gathered in front of state gas company and protested gas cut and officials’ carelessness on the matter. The manger of Gas Company in Shahroud in an interview with the state run Fars news agency said: the gas is cut off in %50 of the city and it might extend to other parts of the city too. Ali Ashghar Mayeli manager of Gas Company in Ghaemshahr said about 30% of gas consumers are cut off. Reports also indicate Iranian regime increased the number of suppressive forces in front of governors’ offices to stop spread of protests.
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A German diplomat has been ordered to leave Iran, a German news agency said on Saturday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat from Germany in July. The Hamburg-based weekly Der Spiegel reported last month that an Iranian official was forced to leave Germany last summer after he tried to acquire components for Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.German news agency DPA reported on Saturday that the German diplomat had had to leave Tehran and it was thought this was a result of the expulsion of the Iranian official from Germany.
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