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Iran police shut down Nobel laureate's office
Iranian police shut down the office of a human rights group headed by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday, the deputy head of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, Narges Mohammadi, told AFP.
"They have sealed off the office and are telling us to leave the premises without resistance," Mohammadi said. "Mrs Ebadi is there too. We have no choice but to leave."
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In Defence of Human Rights in Iran - On the occasion of 10th December 2008
"The campaign reminds us that in a world still reeling from the horrors of the Second World War, the declaration was the first global statement of what we now take for granted - the inherent dignity and equality of all human beings."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
The launch of Human Rights year in December 2007 by Ban Ki-moon was the beginning of a high profile international campaign to highlight the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which falls on the 10th December 2008. While the Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory to the Declaration, the reality of life in Iran suggests that the Islamic Republic is merely paying lip service to its obligations rather than taking them seriously. Jamshid Ahmadi reports for CODIR.
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Two UN Special Rapporteurs warn on the ongoing crackdown of women's rights defenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran
GENEVA, 27 November 2008 - "Over the past two years, women's rights defenders have faced an increasingly difficult situation and harassment in the course of their non-violent activities in the defence of women's rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran," warned two UN human rights experts. ...more |
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Ahmadinejad leads Iran into the darkness
With economic crisis gripping the capitalist world some in the ruling elite in Iran are taking the opportunity to highlight the benefits of the system in the Islamic Republic. But do such claims stand up to scrutiny? Jane Green investigates.
Major cities across Iran, the country with the world's third largest oil reserves, spend two hour blocks in complete darkness, depending upon their place in the recently published 'blackout timetables'. In Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan, life regularly comes to a halt, quite literally as traffic light systems cease to function and hospitals lose power ...more |
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Candidates jostle for position as election looms
With only eight months to go before the June 2009 presidential election in Iran both the conservatives and reformists have yet to finalise their candidates. Jane Green, as part of her series of articles analysing the build up to voting day, considers the potential runners. ...more |
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Whispers of war
It is a frightening notion, but it is not just the Bush administration discussing, if only theoretically, the possibility of military action to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program.
What is significant is that inside Washington's policy circles these days - in studies, commentaries, meetings, congressional hearings and conferences - reasonable people from both parties are seriously examining the so-called military option, along with new diplomatic initiatives. ...more |
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New issue of Iran Today Published!
Issue Vol 20/No2 featuring an exclusive article by Dr Naser Zarafshan, the leader of Iranian Writers Association, articles on the violations of human rights in Iran, US threats against Iran, Solidarity with Iranian Trade Unionists, and Campaign by Iranian women against the infamous "Family Bill". Iran Today |
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Resolution on Iran by International PEN
The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 74th International Congress in Bogota, Colombia, 17-22 September 2008
Alarmed about the increasing and widespread violations of the right to freedom of expression in Iran, in which writers and journalists continue to be threatened, summoned to the revolutionary courts and detained. The aggressive use of Internet censorship places bloggers are at risk arrest. ...more |
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Canadian Teachers Call for Stay of Execution in Iran
I am writing on behalf of the nearly 60,000 secondary school teachers and support staff in the province of Ontario, Canada, all of who are members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation.
We are very concerned about the treatment of Farzad Kamangar as well as other teacher union activists currently in detention in your country. We urge you and your officials to commute the death sentence of Farzad Kamanger.
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Defend Shirin Ebadi!
CODIR calls upon the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to guarantee the safety of Shirin Ebadi.
Concern for the life of Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has been expressed in the strongest terms recently by the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues and the Iran based Centre for the Defence of Human Rights.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - Iran: The 20th anniversary of 1988 "prison massacre"
Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. ...more |
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Iran one year on: Osanloo still jailed, workers still oppressed
A year to the day since his violent arrest the ITF, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Amnesty International are calling on the world not to forget jailed Iranian trade unionist Mansour Osanloo.
Through their publications, websites and memberships the three organisations are once again pledging that Osanloo will not be forgotten and demanding his release. Their call comes as a year elapses since he was snatched off a bus in Tehran on 10 July 2007 in an arrest the authorities initially denied had even taken place - and as a currently unconfirmed report says that yesterday instead of being escorted to a hospital appointment he was instead taken for arraignment at the Intelligence Court. ...more |
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