Human Rights Under Rouhani
A new campaign by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center brings awareness to conditions inside Iran. UN Chief Ban Ki Moon recently called on Iranian
View ArticleUnlock Iran Invites You To Experience Life as an Iranian Political Prisoner
Originally posted at: http://blog.witness.org/2014/04/unlock-iran-invites-experience-life-iranian-political-prisoner/ Posted on April 23, 2014 by Sarah Kerr Unlock Iran is a new innovative visual...
View ArticleActress: In Iran, my counterpart faces prison
Originally posted at: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/opinion/boniadi-activists-kail-iran/ (CNN) -- At first blush, the biography of Iranian actress Pegah Ahangarani could read very much like my own....
View ArticleUnlock Iran Is Like Facebook for Exposing Human Rights Abuses
Originally posted at: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unlock-iran-is-like-facebook-for-exposing-human-rights-abuses In Iran's jails there are 85 political activists, 32 bloggers, 21 journalists, 245...
View ArticleWhy Iran Is Banning Instagram
Originally posted at: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/why-iran-is-banning-instagram Written by BEN RICHMOND May 23, 2014 // 04:21 PM EST Instagram has long enjoyed something of an outlier status in...
View ArticleIran's death penalty stays off global agenda
Originally posted at: http://www.dw.de/irans-death-penalty-stays-off-global-agenda/a-17705731 At least 320 people are said to have been executed in Iran this year. Drawn from official and unofficial...
View ArticleIran Doles Out Prison Sentences to Tech Bloggers, or 'Enemy Cyber Activists'
Originally posted at: http://mashable.com/2014/06/19/iran-tech-bloggers-prison/ BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI Iran has sentenced a group of tech bloggers to a combined 36 years in prison for...
View ArticleGissou Nia: The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Originally posted at: http://www.ishr.ch/news/gissou-nia-iran-human-rights-documentation-center#sthash.oW7XaSs9.dpuf ISHR has decided to publish a series of profiles of representatives of...
View ArticleIranian Journalist Gets 50 Lashes and 2 Years in Prison for 'Propaganda'
Originally posted at: http://mashable.com/2014/07/09/iranian-journalist-50-lashes-2-years-in-prison/ BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI Iran is sending yet another journalist to prison. Marzieh Rasouli,...
View ArticleLies in the Face of the World: A Reflection on the UPR of Iran
Lies in the Face of the World: A Reflection on the UPR of Iran Mohammad Nayyeri * Translated from Persian On October 31, 2014, the second Universal Periodic
View ArticleIran’s persecution of the Baha’i has been met by silence from Rouhani–and the...
By Ramin Ahmadi Reprinted from qz.com In all my years as an Iranian-American, I have never heard so much discussion about Iran. In the halls of Congress, on
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