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Labor activist summoned to revolutionary court

According to reports, Yadollah Qotbi, a labor activist, must go to the Islamic revolutionary court of Sanandaj on 13 July of this year. It is noted that he was previously summoned and arrested on Labor’s Day and subsequently released on bail.

Amnesty International calls for release of an Iranian political prisoner

According to National Council of Resistance of Iran, on Thursday Amnesty International issued a statement calling for the release of Farzad Haghshenas, a Kurdish speaking Iranian political prisoner. Amnesty’s statement pointed out the torture and harassment of this political prisoner and said: Farzad Haghshenas, who is 35 years old and is from Kurdestan province was arrested by the security agents of Islamic Republic of Iran without any explanations or reasons and was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s offices in the city of Marivan.

Iran’s protesting mothers send open letter to UN rights investigator on Iran

Mothers taking part in protest gatherings in Tehran’s Laleh Park, sent an open letter to Ahmed Shaheed, the newly appointed UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Iran, describing a small portion of the numerous human rights violations in Iran. These protesting mothers called on Shaheed to inspect and conduct an in-depth investigation into Iran’s prison conditions. They also asked the UN special rapporteur to take measures to guarantee the security of political prisoners and meet with them in person. Last week the Iranian regime’s member of parliamant said that they would not allow Shaheed to enter Iran.

Iran: Sit-in of Marvdasht Test Factory workers

Based on reports from Marvdasht in Fars Province (central Iran), on Saturday over 150 workers of the Test Factory staged a sit-in inside the factory in protest to the expulsion of 6 fellow workers and 5 months of unpaid wages. The protesting workers announced they will continue their sit-in until their demands are met. Last week, Marvdasht workers staged a protest outside the regime’s governorate office in Fars Province and clashed with repressive State Security Forces.

Five of 12 hunger strikers transferred to the infirmary

According to Rahana, 5 of the 12 prisoners on hunger strike have been transferred to the Ward 350 infirmary after more than a week without food. They are on hunger strike to protest the death of Reza Hoda Saber who died 10 days into his hunger strike and the death of Hale Sahabi.

Eight million are unemployed in Iran

Saham News web site reported on June 22 that Daryush Qanbari, a member of regime’s majlis said: “I consider the unemployment rate in Iran to be 30%. Of course, the official statistics declare the unemployment rate to be 14% and the number of unemployed more than 3 million people, but these statistics do not include the women and the university students while the students will soon join the army of unemployed and jobs must be created for them. On the other hand, the conscript soldiers are considered employed by these statistics as well, but upon completion of their compulsory service, they will become unemployed too. If we include the soldiers and students, the number of unemployed in the country reaches 8 million”, He added.

NEDA AGHA SOLTAN

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the death of Neda AghaSoltan. She died while participating in the Iranian people’s uprising after the so called election in 2009. She died with open eyes and became a symble of Freedom. Millions of people around the world are praising Neda and what she stood for and so will we.

Long Live FREEDOM

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Exiled Iranian group wants UN to watch Iraq camp

Associated Press reported: A leader of an exiled Iranian opposition group says the United Nations must monitor its camp in Iraq after a deadly April attack by the Iraqi army. Maryam Rajavi of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran told thousands of followers at a gathering Saturday outside Paris that U.N. monitors in Camp Ashraf is the most expedient short-term way to protect the 3,400 people living there. The camp was installed under Saddam Hussein and once used as a base to battle the clerical regime across the border in Iran. The U.S. has labeled the Mujahedeen a terrorist group, and Rajavi says Washington is responsible for the situation in Ashraf because it has ’shackled the main force for change in Iran.’ An Iraqi army attack on the enclave killed up to 35 people and injured hundreds.

Two brothers executed by mullahs’ regime in Dezful

Accoeding to National Council of Rrsistance of Iran, continuing the wave of executions and widespread suppression, mullahs hanged two brothers last Sunday morning (June 12) in the city of dezful, state-run Asre Iran reported. The head of disciplinary forces in dezful, Iraj Nadebi announced the two victims to be Karim and Rahim Pourmahmoud.

Iran: Three state security forces die in Delgan

According to the Mehr News Agency, the governor of Delgan (Southeast of Iran) said that armed men in Galamourti – in the Zahedan Province (east of Iran) – killed 3 members of the regimes suppressive forces. One of the dead men was Ali Reza Hamai Faseeh another man a member of the local Basij and the last an IRGC personnel, said Reza Meshkini to the Mehr News Agency.

Iran: People boycott regime TV

The cultural advisor to the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has acknowledged the people’s widespread hatred toward its television programming, saying, “Satellites have brought the sedition into people’s homes. ”Saffar Harandi, whose remarks were published by the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency, added, “The enemy is presenting itself currently with a clean face and is very dangerous in the current circumstances. Naturally, the biggest instrument of the enemy is the media.”

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Monday June 20^th a gathering is expected to be held at the Parliament Hill here in Ottawa from 12 to 2PM, organized by CFPPI, Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran. June 20^th is named a Global day of action in support of political prisoners in Iran. This global event is going to take place in at leaset 49 cities around the world. For more info please visit: www.iranpoliticalprisoners.com

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The telegraph wrote on June 8th that: 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, who specialises in human rights law, the prisoners were executed for refusing to recant their political and religious beliefs. "They were hung from cranes, four at a time, or in groups of six from ropes hanging from the stage of the prison assembly hall," the report states. "Their bodies were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried by night in mass graves." Mr Robertson compares the mass executions in Iran with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war, in which an estimated 8,000 people died. He is now calling on the UN Security Council to set up a special court to try those responsible "for one of the worst single human rights atrocities since the Second World War".

Apart from Mousavi, the report accuses other prominent members of the Iranian regime, such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's current Supreme Leader, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, of being involved in the mass executions, which took place following the end of Iran's eight-year war with Iraq.

Another resident of Ashraf Camp died yesterday of his wound

According to Natioanl Council of Resistance of Iran, Mansoor Hadjian, 52, was one of the Ashraf residents who were wounded in the deadly attack of the Maliki’s forces on Ashraf on April 8th. He passed away on Saturday, June 11, in a hospital in Baghdad after two months of pain and suffering due to inhumane medical siege on Ashraf made by the Iraqi Prime Ministry Committee charged with suppression of Ashraf residents. Mansoor Hadjian, the 36th martyr of the 8th April attack, was shot in the chest which led to a lung injury along with severe bleeding. He was a PMOI member who had struggled against the Iranian regime for 26 years.

Reza Hoda Saber died on hunger strike

Hoda Saber activist and journalist has reportedly died from a heart attack and the complications of a hunger strike. He with 5 other prisoners were on hunger strike to oppose the death of Miss Hale Sahabi who was killed at her father’s funeral.