Category Archives: Events
News from Iran – Week 20 – 2013
Prisoners’ News A-Transfers Ayoub Asadi, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Kashmar to serve his 20 year sentence. Emergency transfer of Dervish lawyer Amir Eslami to hospital after heart attack. Fakhroldin Faraji, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Tabas to serve his 30 year sentence. Chengiz Ghadem-Kheiri , Kurdish political activist, transferred to Masjede-Soleiman to serve his […]
News from Iran – Week 19 – 2013
Prisoners’ News Transfers Saeed Abedini stops hunger strike after his return to 350. – Transferred to Modarres hospital for stomach bleeding then back to Evin. Abolfazl Abedini Nasr, Kamran Ayazi, Mohammad and Pouria Ebrahimi, Siamak Ghaderi, Amir Khosro Dalirsani, Saeed Madani, Abdollah Momeni and Mohamad-Hassan Yousefpour-Seifi stopped hunger strike after return to 350. Arrests-Detentions Mohammad […]
My Take on #BanglaSpring: #MangoDown
I checked out the #BanglaSpring tag on Twitter yesterday. First impression was yet another social media engineering event using realistic looking but fake accounts. A lot of the information being posted is hard to verify – Conflicting reports on #Bangladesh death toll – Between 28 and 3500 ciibroadcasting.com/2013/05/06/con… #BanglaSpring @channelislam— Azhar Vadi (@AzharVadi) May 06, […]
News from Iran – Week 18 – 2013
Prisoners’ News A-Transfers Saeed Abedini, Abolfazl Abedini-Nasr, Kamran Ayazi, Amir-Khosro Dalirsani, Mohammad Ebrahimi, Pouria Ebrahimi, Siamak Ghaderi, Saeed Madani, Abdollah Momeni, Mehdi Yousefpour transferred to Evin 240 solitary for protesting against warden’s request of dismissal of political prisoners’’ representative Saeed Madani. Sanaz Tafazoli and Noura Nabilzadeh, children’s rights activist, transferred from Vakil-Abad prison to Minister […]
Iran: Government Trampling Workers’ Rights | Human Rights Watch
Campaign Highlights Labor Concerns on International Workers’ Day The Iranian government is increasingly violating workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association. Dozens of labor and independent trade union activists are in prison for speaking out in defense of workers.Human Rights Watch called for the government to end the crackdown and free labor rights advocates in […]
