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Iranian transgenders are not secure in Iran

Iranian transgenders are not secure in Iran

WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »October 20, 09 Source: Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR) Iranian transsexuals in fact experience humiliation, assault and abuse, if not outright [...]

Nemat Safavi has been sentenced to Death

Nemat Safavi has been sentenced to Death

October 31, 09 Source: Iranian Railroad for Queer Railroad (IRQR) Nemat Safavi, 21 years old, has been sentenced to death by the juvenile court in Ardebil, a city northwest Iran.  Queers in Iran are put to death and persecution by their government, simply for being who they are.  Now more than ever we need your [...]

Top Saudi cleric warns against politicising hajj

Top Saudi cleric warns against politicising hajj

Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh (AFP) RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has warned against politicising the hajj amid a war of words between Riyadh and Tehran over the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Saturday. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh told the Saudi-controlled regional daily [...]

Iran says in talks on Nabucco participation-report

Iran says in talks on Nabucco participation-report

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A senior Iranian energy official said Tehran was holding “unofficial” talks with some European firms about its participation in the 7.9 billion euro Nabucco gas pipeline project, a news agency reported on Saturday. Iran sits on the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia but has been slow to develop exports, partly [...]

Video: UN inspectors arrive

Video: UN inspectors arrive

Copy to: ITUC and all international workers organization across the globe/Free Workers Union of Iran’s statement regarding the arrest of Shaysh Amani and the refusal to issue a permit for the May day ceremonies

Copy to: ITUC and all international workers organization across the globe/Free Workers Union of Iran’s statement regarding the arrest of Shaysh Amani and the refusal to issue a permit for the May day ceremonies

April 23rd, 2008 Today, the political deputy of the province of Kurdestan announced to the authorities of the Free Workers Union of Iran that there is no way that a permit for the May day ceremonies would be issued to them. At the same time, today Shaysh Amani, one of the founders of the terminated [...]

Report of the second general assembly of the terminated and unemployed workers general union

Report of the second general assembly of the terminated and unemployed workers general union

April 19th, 2008 The second general assembly of the terminated and unemployed workers general union was held on the 30th of Farvardeen, 1387 (April 18th, 2008) in the city of Sanandadj; one hundred and ten workers, member of the union from the cities of Tehran, Sanandadj, Kermanshah, Asslaveeyeh, Ghom industrial city, Mahabad and other areas [...]

Shays Amani arrested and imprisoned at the commencement for May First

Shays Amani arrested and imprisoned at the commencement for May First

April 23rd, 2008 Based on reports received by the Free Workers Union of Iran, today, 2nd of Ordeebehesht, 1387 (April 23rd, 2008), Shaysh Amani, president of the board of directors of the terminated and unemployed workers general union who had appeared in court as a result of the misplacement of his bail, was arrested on [...]

They will not allow Osanlou to sign a power of attorney

They will not allow Osanlou to sign a power of attorney

June 2nd, 2008 Source: RadioFarda.com The report compiled by the International Labor Organization (ILO) panel dispatched to Iran, was printed last week at the commencement of the annual ILO conference in Geneva. In a section of this report which was a transcription of Mansour Osanloo’s court of appeals hearing, it is stated that one of [...]

Arak industries workers come to Tehran

Arak industries workers come to Tehran

May 27th, 2008 Source: Dastranj Website Workers: If we do not see a resolution to our claims by the authorities of the labor bureau of the city of Arawk, in eliminating the work issues of one hundred and eighty (180) workers of this unit and prevention of management violation of this unit, we will come [...]

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