Category Archives: Kenya
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 […]
News from Iran – Week 27 – 2012
News of the Prisoners A- Transfers After 3 months in Intel detention, cultural activist Jabar Yebari has been moved to Karoon prison in Ahvaz. Amin Zargarnezhad transferred to solitary in Tabriz prison. B- Arrests/Incarcerations Idris Kaveh, Bohran Keyvanpour, Hamid Parhizkar, Kurdish villagers, arrested in Nei, and Shamzin Ahmadnezhad, Shahoo Partavi, Mohammad-Amin Salimi , Mohammad Savarkar, […]
This Week in Corruption – Oxford University Press and World Bank education projects in Africa
Oxford University Press has acknowledged the “misconduct” of its two subsidiaries that bribed government officials to win tenders and contracts to supply text books to two World Bank-financed education projects in East Africa, according to a press release. World Bank debarred Oxford University Press East Africa Ltd. and Oxford University Press Tanzania Tuesday (July 3) following OUP’s […]
Thousands still flee #Somalia every month
A year after troubled Somalia was ravaged by the worst drought in decades, no end seems in sight to more than two decades of suffering and Somalis continue to flee their country to escape conflict, human rights abuses and adverse weather conditions. In the first four months of this year, some 20,000 Somalis sought refuge in […]
