Monthly Archives: October 2012
News from Iran – Week 43 – 2012
Prisoners’ News Transfers Mousavi’s 2009 campaign coordinator, Mir Taher Mousavi, who was arrested 3 months ago, has been taken to hospital. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was taken to hospital in dire condition but not admitted and returned to Evin. Jailed lawyer Mohammad Seif Zadeh transferred from Evin prison to the hospital. On hunger strike Human Rights […]
Des Nouvelles d’Iran – Semaine 43-2012
Nouvelles des Prisonniers A- Transferts Ø Mostafa Ali Ahmad, prisonnier politique kurde, transféré de la prison d’Oroumieh vers un endroit inconnu. Ø Djahangir (Houshang) Badozadeh, prisonnier politique kurde, transféré de la prison d’Oroumieh vers un endroit inconnu. Ø Yousef Kakehmami (Mostafa), prisonnier politique kurde, transféré de la prison d’Oroumieh vers un endroit inconnu. Ø Le coordinateur de la campagne de Moussavi en 2009, Mir Taher […]
Clashes as tens of thousands protest against austerity in Rome
Tens of thousands of people marched through Rome in a “No Monti Day” on Saturday, some throwing eggs and spraying graffiti to protest against austerity measures introduced by Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government. Appointed in November when Italy risked being sucked into the euro zone debt crisis, Monti has pushed through painful austerity measures to […]
Aziz left hospital, reportedly in #Mauritania’s Paris Embassy
Aziz left the Percy hospital, and is reportedly in #Mauritania’s Paris Embassy. Don’t know when he was discharged, and no news regarding return to Mauritania. Reuters http://reut.rs/PR1rPm
![Bahrain Journalist Nazeeha Saeed [pic: BHR]](http://lissnup.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/journo4.png?w=203)
Time to Rein in #Bahrain
The Kingdom of Bahrain is not presented to the world as a major power, or a serious threat to peace and stability. Quite the opposite. So why is it continually allowed to get away with human rights abuses? The case of a young woman journalist is only a glimpse of the harsh treatment of media professionals, doctors, lawyers and rights activists by security forces in Bahrain. The list of detained reporters, photographers and cyber-dissidents keeps on getting longer amid complete indifference on the part of the international community.
