Yesterday (21st of June 2008) at the Pinecrest Cemetery in Ottawa hundreds of Neda Hassani’s Iranian and Canadian friends and families gathered for her fifth memorial. She set herself in fire in London in June of 2003 in protest to the arrest of the President elect of the Iranian resistance by the French police. The guest speakers talked about Neda and her life. Mr. David Kilgour the former and independed member of the Canadian Parliament and a human rights activist also said a few words. Neda Hassani was born in 1978 in Tehran-Iran. She was a student in Carleton University but her love for freedom and democracy led her to become an advocate for millions of voiceless Iranians. She was in London-England when she learned about the raid of 1300 French police officers on Maryam Radjavi’s compound on June 17, 2003. She joined the thousands of Iranians who got there from far and near and started their hunger strike to protest that shameful act by Chirac’s government. She died on June 23rd 2003, due to her injury. Her mother said that Neda had found a quiet place under a bridge in front of the French Embassy in London and set herself a blaze. The only place in her body that was not burnt was her palm as she was making a fist and shouting “Free Maryam Radjavi”. Her burial place at the Pinecrest Cemetery was full of flowers. People paid homage to our city’s brave girl with tears to their eyes. Maryam Radjavi was freed from the French prison on the 3rd of July 2003.

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Two female university students committed suicide In Lahijan and Sistan Va Baluchestan.
According to Amir Kabir student bulletin in Iran, the female student in Lahijan was repeatedly summoned to the armed watchmen’s office at the university. At the end she could not take it anymore and jumped from the 4th floor of their office and ended her life.
Another girl took pills to end her life for the same reason and she succeeded. This is the second such suicide in the past month and a half. According to the head of the ministry of university watchman’s, suicide is the second cause of death among university students. In every 28 cases of suicide, 7 are male and 21 are female that a few of them end up dead, he said.

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The National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement in June 16, 2008 - Tow men identified as Alireza Barahooi and Youness Rahmondost were executed by the mullahs’ regime in the south-eastern cities of Zahedan and Chabahar respectively, the state-run news agency Fars reported on Monday. The Iranian regime has sent 16 prisoners to gallows in past ten days. Among them was a 17-year-old Mohammad Hassan-Zadeh in Sanandaj prison, northwest Iran. The boy was 14 at time of the alleged crime. Execution of juveniles is a clear breach of the international covenants by the ruling clerics in Iran. The mullahs’ regime has stepped up arbitrary executions to combat the growing public revulsion against it at home and international isolation abroad.

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In protest against suppression at university and desecration of a female student by the University vice president, more than 3000 students of Zanjan University (north-western Iran) staged a protesting gathering. The angry students attacked the office of Madadi, the university vice president, and unanimously asked for his resignation and other university administrators. A number of students staged a sit-in at night in the Gymnasium and announced they would continue their sit-in until their demands are met.The exams were postponed due to students’ protest and sit-in. The female students have been arrested by the Iranian regime

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In an official letter to Iraqi Parliament, the People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran (PMOI), underscoring the democratic rights of responding vis-à-vis false and incorrect information and claims, and considering the demonizing campaign of the Iranian regime against its opposition, asked to attend the Iraqi Parliament’s open session in order to clarify before the honest Iraqi people by presenting evidences and documents.
This comes after Ali Dabbagh’s repeated remarks (the spokesman of the Iraqi government) to extradited the opposition Mujahidin from Iraq. In a letter to the MNF-I Command, the Committee of Friends of a Free Iran in Sweden, condemned Ali Dabbagh’s remarks against the PMOI and wrote: Friends of Free Iran in Sweden whose members are jurists, academicians, parliamentarians and human rights activists was informed with serious concern that the Iraqi government’s spokesman has talked about the expulsion of the PMOI members from Iraq and has announced prohibition of any contacts with them. We are confident that these remarks are a reaction to signatures of 3 million Iraqi Shiites who have announced their support for the PMOI and oppose the Iranian regime’s meddling. Members of the PMOI are protected persons under 4th Geneva Convention and any displacement of them is violation of Humanitarian Law. We are sure that the Multi National Force in Iraq (MNF-I) respect the PMOI’s legal status and you give assurance too that any efforts of the Iraqi government for violation of rights of these persons will be faced with decisiveness.

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A group of political prisoners in the prisons of Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan and Orumiyeh commemorated 20 June 1981, beginning of the resistance against the clerical regime, the Day of Martyrs and Political Prisoners, and anniversary of foundation of the National Liberation Army. They also staged a 10-day hunger strike to protest the clerical regime in Iran.

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800 students demonstrate protesting the arrest of 10 students in Mashhad
In protest to the arrest of 10 students, 800 students of the Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, northeastern Iranian city, chanting “death to dictator”, staged a demonstration and sit-in in Vakilabad on Friday. The demonstration was held in front of Pardis dormitory. In fear of joining the people to the demonstration, the suppressive State Security Forces (SSF) agents and intelligence and plain-clothes agents surrounded the dormitory yard and students.
According to reports, during demonstration of 10,000 people of Mashhad in Vakilabad Blvd. more than200 people were arrested by the clerical regime’s agents. The special unit force and plain-clothes agents supported by motor cyclist mercenaries, while shooting at air, attacked the protesters using electric batons and tear gas and arrested extensive number of people. Then, they gathered a number of detainees in a mosque and brutally beat them and then they were transferred to an unknown place by tens of buses.


8 youths were hanged at Evin Prison by mullahs’ regime
The clerical regime in Iran hanged 8 youths in Evin Prison on Wednesday. The victims aged 27 to 34. According to state press agencies, following extensive international protests against juvenile execution in Iran, the regime’s Judiciary was forced to postpone the execution verdicts of three persons that were underage at the time of ascribed crime. The three were named Behnoud Shojaaee, Mohammad Fadaaee, Saeed Jazee. In a statement on June 2, the Secretariat of NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran) urged UN Secretary General, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and all human rights organizations and societies to refer the issue of executing juveniles and the violation of human rights in Iran to the UN Security Council for adopting practical measures.

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Students of Teachers’ Training School continue strike; 170 on hunger strike
The sit-in and strike of more than 2,000 students of the Teacher’s Training school in Pardis, Karaj, ended its ninth day while about 170 of the students are on hunger strike. Despite all pressures, threats and surrounded by the State Security Force, the strike is still going on. Over the past 9 days, the clerical regime’s agents tried several times to hamper the strike by employing measures such as cutting off drinking water, threatening the striking students’ families, and releasing punishment warrants for 8 students by the disciplinary committee; but these measures were foiled by the students’ resistance

“AI” expressed concern of female student detainment in Iran
Amnesty International released a statement expressing its concern about the fate of a 21-yr old female student named Nahid Kalhor who was arrested by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence agents (MIOS) in Qom, Iranian central city. This statement partly reads: This student is exposed to the threat of mistreat and torture; her whereabouts is uncertain and she has no connection with her family or any attorney. Amnesty International has asked its members and other human rights activists across the world to take measures to save Nahid’s life.

7,000 brick factory workers continue their second week of strike
7000 workers of brick factory of Orumiyeh (northwestern Iranian city) castigated Ahmadinejad’s representative who tried to break the strike through intimidating and threatening the workers.The report indicates that Ahmadinejad’s cabinet representative by the name of Shirzad Mehvarcharkh, who intended to threaten the workers, was attacked by the striking workers and was injured; he was hospitalized for 6 days.

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The European Union on Wednesday expressed its "deep concern" at the impending execution of an alleged juvenile offender in Iran on June 4th. "The Presidency of the EU expresses its deep concern on news of the imminent execution of Mr Mohammad Fadaei who was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was a minor", the EU said in a statement issued by Slovenia which currently holds the 27-nation bloc's rotating presidency. Fadaei is scheduled to be executed on 11 June 2008. “Two other juvenile offenders, Mr Behnood Shojaee and Mr Saeed Jazee, who were also convicted of crimes which took place when they were minors, have also been scheduled for execution on 11 June and 25 June 2008 respectively”, the EU said.
Mohammad Fadaei has written an open letter stating that his confession to the murder when he was 16 years old, was under torture and he signed the confession to stop the unbearable torture. He writes: without knowing what was on that paper, they forced me to seal it with my finger prints. I swear that neither I wrote anything nor I have any knowledge of the text. Now I am awaiting my execution. Mohammad continues: I ‘m not afraid anymore, I have lived with it for years. They have hung my hopes and dreams years ago... I still can’t believe it that I must die in a few days.

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The Kuwaiti daily Asseyassa wrote in an article that the solution to Iran’s crisis is the Iranian Resistance and the option represented by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. In an article by the Lebanese writer Moha Awn, Asseyassa wrote: The international forces, and above all, the Arab and regional countries must take action in cooperation with each other for a democratic solution, and should carry this out through strengthening the Iranian people’s resistance movements; the Arab and Islamic countries are the first who benefit this, because the Iranian Resistance under the leadership of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi relies on democratic principles and advocates the tolerant Islam that believes in separation of church and state; this resistance has ability and legitimacy to end Iran’s nuclear crisis, and is able to finish disgusting fratricide among Shiites and Sunnis; this resistance is the most appropriate solution for the Arab world to confront the Iranian regime.

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Worldwide demonstrations against missile attack on Ashraf
Following the missile attack on Ashraf City by the Iranian regime, the freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of Resistance in various countries of the world including Britain, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, U.S. and Canada staged demonstrations and asked for international measures to confront the clerical regime and eviction of it from Iraq. In Canada they Iranian gathered in front of the Forgien affaris on 125 Sussex drive on Thursday May 29th and demanded Canadian government to take necessary measures. They chanted close down Iranian embassy in Baghdad City which they called it a “terror Base”. In this gathering Mr. David Kilgour and Madadm Folkor also participated and condemned the missile attack on Ashraf city by the Iranian regime.


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According to Press Association on May 28, 08, Europe's governments are being urged to follow the UK's lead and remove Iran's opposition movement from a list of proscribed terrorist organizations. The move follows the end of a seven-year legal battle by the People's Mujahadeen of Iran (PMOI) during which British and EU courts have ruled there is no justification for the organization appearing on the blacklist. In 2001 the then home secretary Jack Straw added the PMOI to the UK's terror list, drawn up under the Terrorism Act, and asked the EU to add it to its own list. But in 2006 the European Court of Justice said the decision to include the PMOI on the EU list was "unlawful". Then last year the UK's Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission described the Government's refusal to take the PMOI off the UK list as "perverse" and "flawed".
A final Government legal challenge was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on May 7, prompting Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to agree to remove the PMOI from the UK list. PMOI lawyer David Vaughan QC told a victory meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels that the EU governments now had no choice but to take the PMOI off the EU list as well. He said it had been a "great honor" to fight the case, adding: "It is easy to win a case if you have good case." The next job was to persuade the member states that the legitimacy of keeping the PMOI on the EU list depended entirely on the validity of Mr Straw's decision to put the organization on the UK list: "Once the UK measures were declared unlawful on May 7, the European measures had no legitimate basis in law." Labour peer Lord Clarke, one of 35 MPs and lords named in a legal challenge to the government said keeping the PMOI on the EU list was now "wrong and indefensible". The organization was the "democratic face of Iran", he told the Brussels meeting.