Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 9, 2010
Simin Behbahani was prevented from leaving for France for International Women’s Day ceremonies.
RAHANA – “Paris municipality had invited me for March 8 and I had prepared a text about feminism and a poem about women which I was going to read at the ceremony and [...]
Source: Khatami.ir and Khordaad88
Delivered on March 1, 2010 (translated on Mach 9th)
The public relations division of former president Mohammad Khatami’s office reports of his meeting with a group from the youth and students association of the Imam’s Line, in commemoration of the beloved prophet [Mohammad]’s birthday (peace be upon him).
Seyyed Mohammad Khatami congratulated the attendees [...]
A compilation of information about all the events commemorating March 8th, International Womens Day
* * March 7th Press Release from the women students collective of the School of Social Sciences of the Allameh-Tabatabaie University
On Monday, March 8th, The International Women’s Day we women and girls, residents of Tehran will wear green overcoats and scarves in [...]
* * Mothers of Plaza de Mayo of Argentina announce their solidarity with Iran’s Mournful Mothers. Hebe de Bonafini, President of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo wrote: “Repression of the Iranian government has already killed 57 people and detained more than 4000 opponents.
Iranian mothers gathered for the first time on July 28, 2009 [...]
Source: Persian2English
March 5, 2010
Deutsche Übersetzung auf Julias Blog lesen
Bloggers Against the Death Penalty call to save the life of Mohammad Amin Valian
20 year old Mohammad Amin Valian was arrested on January 12, 2010 in Damghan (a city in the province of Semnan) after he published an article in a student newspaper at the University of [...]
Source: Mir Hossein Mousavi Facebook page
March 4, 2010
Grand Ayatollah Saanei: Those protesting to the government not only are not enemies of God but it was their religious duty to self-defend. After the release of a denial from the office of Grand Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi regarding the so-called Fatwa that was said by the court to have [...]
Source: Homylafayette Blog
March 4, 2010
The death sentence of a 20-year-old student activist has been confirmed by the Islamic Republic’s court of appeals, according to opposition news site Nedayeh Sabzeh Azadi, signaling the Islamic regime’s increasing reliance on execution and human rights abuses to maintain its grip on power.
Mohammad Amin Valian, a member of the reformist [...]
* * Below: a video of Iranian residents of Germany at the Hannover tech fair protest the presence of representatives of the Iranian Telecom (owned and run by the revolutionary guards in Iran). Prior to the fair, the Iranian protesters published open letters in German publications objecting to the presence of, effectively the representatives [...]
March 2, 2010
Film director, Jafar Panahi was arrested along with his wife, their daughter and a number of their guests.
Panahi who among others directed internationally acclaimed films such as The White Balloon (1995), The Circle (2000), Crimson Gold (2003) and Offside (2006) was arrested along with his wife Tahereh Saeedi, their daughter Solmaz and around [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom
March 3, 2010
Iran’s Ministry for Culture and Islamic Guidance has said that changes should be made to Iran’s press law, so that instead of banning publications, “lawbreaking” journalists themselves should be confronted.
Mohammad Ali Ramin, the media advisor to the Iranian culture minister told Iranian TV on Monday that in the [...]
