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TAKE ACTION: Demand an End to Executions

TAKE ACTION: Demand an End to Executions

Call on your government to register a strong complaint concerning human rights violations in Iran and the summary executions of peaceful protesters. Make sure to modify the text for your own country! Iranians from all over Europe will be traveling to Geneva for the review Iran’s human rights record (information online here: http://www.upr-info.org/-Iran-.html) by the UN’s Human Rights Council. Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran will be there to present the organization’s shadow report. Attendance at the meetings is limited, but there will be events...

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Global Action to influence the 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Iran // تجمع در مقابل دفتر سازمان ملل متحد در ژنو در اعتراض به نقض حقوق بشر در ايران

Global Action to influence the 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Iran // تجمع در مقابل دفتر سازمان ملل متحد در ژنو در اعتراض به نقض حقوق بشر در ايران

Gathering in front of the United Nation’s Headquarters in Geneva in Protest to the Violation of Human Rights in Iran Global Action to influence the 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Iran Date: Monday, February 15, 2010 Location: Palais de Nations (In front of the United Nations headquarters), Geneva, Switzerland Starting Time: 9 a.m. Speech, Music and Solidarity Messages: 1 p.m. Endorsed by: Anti-Violence Campaign for Peace, International Health & Epidemiology Research Centre (USA) Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (Canada) Cycling for Human Rights in Iran (Canada) Deutsch-Iranisches...

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Do Everything You Can to Stop Executions

Do Everything You Can to Stop Executions

Cut the ropes, remove the rocks, take the bullets out of their guns… You might not feel that there is much you can do to stop the executions of peaceful protesters in Iran. But there is. You can put pressure on your government to at least pick up the phone and tell Mottaki or Ahmadinejad or Khamenei that this is not the act of a 3000 year old civilization. This is terror. It’s murder. It’s not justice. It’s not even legal, not in the remotest sense of the notion of legal. Fatimeh Haghighatjoo, who actually served in Iran’s parliament from 200-2004, stressed the importance...

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Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

On February 6th, United4Iran SoCal hosted a gathering at the acclaimed University of California in Los Angeles where a panel of Iranian scholars and experts, made up of journalist Omid Memarian, professor Dr. Akbar Mahdi, and professor of gender and women’s studies, Dr. Nayereh Tohidi. The panel analyzed and responded to issues relating to the current movement in Iran, including the role of women at the forefront of the efforts for freedom. See footage from the panel discussion below (Farsi). United4Iran SoCal will be hosting a second event on February 11, 2010 from 4pm-7pm in front of the Federal...

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Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

On February 6th, United4Iran SoCal hosted a gathering at the acclaimed University of California in Los Angeles where a panel of Iranian scholars and experts, made up of journalist Omid Memarian, professor Dr. Akbar Mahdi, and professor of gender and women’s studies, Dr. Nayereh Tohidi. The panel analyzed and responded to issues relating to the current movement in Iran, including the role of women at the forefront of the efforts for freedom. See footage from the panel discussion below (Farsi). United4Iran SoCal will be hosting a second event on February 11, 2010 from 4pm-7pm in front of the Federal...

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Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – University of California, Los Angeles: “It’s Inevitable.”

On February 6th, United4Iran SoCal hosted a gathering at the acclaimed University of California in Los Angeles where a panel of Iranian scholars and experts, made up of journalist Omid Memarian, professor Dr. Akbar Mahdi, and professor of gender and women’s studies, Dr. Nayereh Tohidi. The panel analyzed and responded...

Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – Toronto: “Echoing their Voices”

Buildup to 22 Bahman, February 6th & 7th – Toronto: “Echoing their Voices”

Huddled under 30 degree weather on February 7th, crowds of Toronto residents gathered at Mel Lastman Square to show solidarity for the people of Iran. The event, organized by  Solidarity With Iran, was dominated by a sea of signs calling for the end to torture and arbitrary arrests. The crowds loudly protested the...

Student Facing Execution for Throwing Rocks

Student Facing Execution for Throwing Rocks

Top Lawyer Says Charges Inconsistent with Sharia Law (8 February 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today strongly condemned the prosecution of a young student activist, Mohammad Amin Valian, under the charge of Moharebeh, or “enmity against God,” which is punishable by death and called...

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THE NATION: Protests in Iran

THE NATION: Protests in Iran

Peter Rothberg on 02/04/2010 @ 12:33pm This post was written by Chantal Flores,...

Human rights organizations to show solidarity with non-violent protestors on Iran National Day, February 11

Human rights organizations to show solidarity with non-violent protestors on Iran National Day, February 11

Amnesty International USA along with co-sponsors, United4Iran, Student World Assembly...

REUTERS: Student denies charges as Iran protest trial resumes

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A 20-year old university student arrested for participating...

Saturday
 6th
 February: 
Day of Solidarity with the 
Committee
 of 
Human 
Rights
 Reporters in Iran // 17 بهمن روز همبستگی با کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر

Saturday
 6th
 February: 
Day of Solidarity with the 
Committee
 of 
Human 
Rights
 Reporters in Iran // 17 بهمن روز همبستگی با کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر

[فارسی] Saturday
 6th
 February: 
Day of Solidarity with the 
Committee
...

AP: Iranian Cleric: More Opposition Should Be Executed

AP: Iranian Cleric: More Opposition Should Be Executed

TEHRAN, Iran — A powerful hard-line Iranian cleric on Friday called for the execution...

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International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

Visit the ICHRI’s website at iranhumanrights.org for in-depth coverage and...

Student Facing Execution for Throwing Rocks

Student Facing Execution for Throwing Rocks

Top Lawyer Says Charges Inconsistent with Sharia Law (8 February 2010) The International...

Shirin Ebadi: Politics Rule the Iranian Judiciary

Shirin Ebadi: Politics Rule the Iranian Judiciary

The 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, who heads Center for Human Rights Defenders...

Arrest of Nooshin Jafari and search for Saeedeh Kordi Nejad

On Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at midnight, Nooshin Jafari, a journalist with Etemad...

A Ferdowsi University student is moved into criminal ward

The Ferdowsi University of Mashhad’s student Eftekhar Barzegarian was transferred...

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