Political detainees report being stripped naked and forced to stand outside in plunging temperatures during the night. Anyone can be intimidated. But can it keep them from victory?
Two bloggers, Babak Khoramdin and Koohyar Godarzi, and one leading student activist, Majid Tavakoli, – deprived of their pen and blogs in an Iranian prison – are now using a hunger strike to protest prison conditions and defend their rights.
According to the New York Times, America is secretly carrying out contingency planning for war with Iran. The timing of the story, and the leak it was based on, is intriguing.
On the Eve of the Anniversary of the Iranian Presidential [S]elections the Islamic Regime is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror and Fear. In the past three weeks the Islamic Regime has executed at least 6 political prisoners, 5 of whom belonged to an ethnic minority
Karoubi: The events of 15th Khordaad are a major turning point in Islamic Revolution and the founder of the revolution Ayatollah Khomeini has called it the starting point of the revolution. For these reasons this day will never be forgotten.
The mother of Majid Tavakoli denounces his graver health conditions: no politicians intervene to free him, as was the case with the film director Jafar Panahi.
It didn’t take much for Iranian courts to sentence 10 people to death over the country’s post-election turmoil. For one prisoner, the main evidence was that he allegedly sent videos of protests abroad.
Tehran, May 27: Iran has hanged the suspect of a rape case, Jamshid Mir, on Thursday, May 27.Jamshid Mir, was already imprisoned in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
Iranian news websites, including khabaronline, are reporting that Iran’s Intelligence Ministry is due to release a documentary in the next few days ‘to complete the removal of ambiguities surrounding the murder of Neda Agha Soltan’ and provide ‘new evidence’ about the West’s version of events.
Over the last century, the months of Khordad, Tir, Mordad, and Shahrivar in the Iranian calendar — stretching this year from May 22 through September 23 — have witnessed some of the nation’s most important political developments.