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• IRAN: Action for the release of son and lawyer of Sakineh
  12 October 2010, by siawi2
  Urgent Action: Sakineh’s son and lawyer have been arrested
  12 octobre 2010 11:24
  Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, and lawyer, Houtan Kian, were arrested along with a German journalist and photographer in Tabriz on 10 October Â (...)
• Iran: Shirin Ebadi’s International Appeal to Help Imprisoned Colleague
  12 October 2010, by siawi2
  Source: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/10/ebadi-appeals/
  (6 October 2010) Following publication of news about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike in prison and her interrogations under duress, Shirin Ebadi, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Â (...)
• Iran, Israel & the U.S.: The Slide To War
  24 February 2012, by siawi3

  If there was a war... Iran will be the victim here, but there will be some who
  would take advantage of a war. An attack would unify the
  country around what is now a rather unpopular government,
  allow the Revolutionary Guard to crush its opposition, and
  give cover to the current drive by the Ahmadinejad
  government to cut subsidies for transportation, housing and
  food. A war would cement the power of the most reactionary
  elements of the current regime.

• Nudity or Nudity, That is the Question?!
  13 March 2012, by siawi3

  Allia’s act of defiance in Egypt is totally different. Taking nude photos and publish them in the west has long been permitted and attracts neither persecution, nor death threats. In fact, by doing copying her act, in this fashion, one trivialises Allia’s action.

• Iran: Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs: Ahwazi Arab Activists Tortured, Risk Execution in Iran
  7 December 2013, by siawi3

  Justice for Iran issued an urgent appeal to a number of United Nations Special Rapporteurs regarding the torture of three Ahwazi Arab cultural activists in Iran and the real risk of their execution after an unfair trial before the Revolutionary Court of Ahwaz. The appeal follows the broadcast of their forced confessions by Iran’s state-controlled Press TV.

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrest more dual nationals
  9 November 2017, by siawi3

  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested at least 30 dual nationals during the past two years, mostly on spying charges, according to lawyers, diplomats and relatives, twice as many as earlier reported by local or international media. Detainees’ relatives and lawyers said the Guards were using them as bargaining chips in international relations and to put off European firms that sought business in Iran after the government agreed the deal with world powers to lift sanctions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has vast business interests as well as being Iran’s most powerful security force and has criticised the government for handing contracts to foreigners.

• Iranian single women might need father’s permission to go abroad
  26 January 2013, by siawi3

  ’Modern slavery’: Parliamentary bill proposes requirement for single women to obtain official consent from their guardian to leave country. “The mentality behind these controversial laws is that women should have owners, to give power to men to have control over women.”

• Iran unveils new finger-amputating machine ahead of announcement of increasingly severe punishment of thieves
  30 January 2013, by siawi3

  Iran’s human rights record has long been the subject of international condemnation, with death by stoning, and torture, including flogging and amputation routine punishments.

• Iran reportedly sentences film actress to 90 lashes
  12 October 2011, by siawi3

  An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian actress to one year in jail and 90 lashes related to her role in an Australian-made film portraying social alienation, artistic repression and drug use in Iran, according to an Iranian opposition website.

• La mort d’Iraniens en Syrie illustre l’engagement croissant de Téhéran
  28 octobre 2015, par siawi3

  Plusieurs Iraniens sont morts depuis début octobre en Syrie, signe de l’engagement de plus en plus marqué et assumé de la République islamique pour soutenir, avec la Russie, le régime du président Bachar al-Assad.

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