Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 July 2020

Renowned Iranian scientists attacked because of child rights activism

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Jahangir (left) and Shahin Gavanji Two Iranian brothers, both respected research scientists and child rights activi...
Monday, 11 March 2019

Iran - human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 33 years in prison.

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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a shocking 33 years in prison ...
Friday, 18 April 2014

Iran parents halt killer's execution - the power of forgiveness

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Courtesy of ABF Yesterday, I read a great article in the Guardian about the power of forgiveness: "Iranian killer's executi...
Monday, 30 September 2013

Stoning - Where is it legal?

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I write about human rights, but had no idea that stoning is still a legal punishment in some parts of the Muslim world...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Iran's Deadly Summer: 97 executions so far

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Courtesy of ABF This is disturbing (but not surprising) news I received from The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) , a non...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Judgement day – Iran Tribunal exposes mass massacres of the 1980s

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  Family members of political prisoners executed during mass massacres of the 1980s and the summer of 1988, gather at Tehran’...
Saturday, 16 June 2012

Iran Tribunal to Uncover Iran's Srebrenica

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--> This picture is part of Prison Memoir in Painting by Iranian artist Soudabeh Ardavan. She spent eight years in Iranian ...
Monday, 28 February 2011

Iran Tribunal to investigate Ayatollah's hidden legacy

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As the Arab uprising is breathing a new life into the Iranian opposition, a remarkable new venture is slowly gathering pace outside...
Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Khomeini's visit

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This morning, I listened to a fascinating interview of Mohsen Sazegara by Fergal Keane on BBC4.  Sazegara was at the heart of Ayatol...