Category Archives: Afghanistan
Afghan Landmine Blast Kills 10 Young Girls
Ten young girls have been killed by a landmine explosion in eastern Afghanistan. The children were collecting firewood when one of them accidentally struck the mine with an axe, according to Chapahar district governor Mohammad Seddiq Dawlatzai. The victims were aged nine to 13. Two other girls were critically injured and are being treated in […]
News from Iran – Week 39 – 2012
Prisoners’ News A-Transfers Kurdish political prisoner Shahram Elyasi, servinglife imprisonment, transferred from Evin prison to Rajai Shahr prison B- Arrests/Incarcerations Nursing mothers Zahra Nik-Aein and Taraneh Torabi sent to prison to serve their sentences along with their infants Mehdi Rafsanjani arrested after being summoned to court on return from spending 2 years in the UK […]
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, […]
News from Iran – Week 24 – 2012
News of the Prisoners A- Transfers Javad Alikhani, Farshad Ghorbanpour, Saeed Jalalifar, Saeed Matinpour and Arash Saghar transferred to solitary in ward 209. Bahman Amouei transferred to solitary in ward 209 and then to Rejaei Shahr prison.Abdolrahman, Jamshid, Mansour and Taha Heydari, Ahvazi political prisoners sentenced to death, moved from Karoon river to an unknown location Amir Moavi, Ahvazi political prisoner […]
#Mauritania: On The Edge
In April 2012, it seemed that all Mauritania’s sources of discontent were erupting at once. But protests are nothing new in this land where a coup has been the answer to every political ill, whether real or imagined, for decades. Now Mauritania appears to be entering a new phase in its ever-evolving struggle.
