Category Archives: Oman
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 […]
Gulf states sideline Arab League in Syria talks
The meeting of Arab foreign ministers scheduled to be held in the Saudi city of Jeddah over the Syrian crisis has been postponed indefinitely without explanation by the Arab League. This “emergency meeting” was to discuss the conflict and the replacement of the UN and international mediator Kofi Annan, who resigned last week after the […]
How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter
Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010. Despite the buzz, you may be surprised that only 0.26% of the Egyptian population, 0.1% of the Tunisian population and 0.04% of the Syrian population are active on Twitter. Of […]
