Below is a wonderful blog post by Iranian journalist and columnist Roya Hakakian. In her article Hakakian states that the executions of the five activists a week ago in Iran signal the regime’s paranoia and an attempt to deter a …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Suppression, Terror | Leave a commentFollowing the executions of five political activists, four of the Kurdish in Tehran on May 9th, the Kurdish communities of Turkey and Iraq have rallied to protest against the injustice. In Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Videos | 1 CommentA Diyarbakir court convicted Vedat Kursun, the former editor of Azadiya Welat, Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily on 103 counts of propaganda for a terrorist organization (the PKK) and membership in an illegal organization. Kursun was sentenced to 166 years and …
Posted in Journalists, Trials, Turkey | Leave a commentAs part of the Iranian regime’s campaign to suppress opposition from ethnic minorities, the executions of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, and Shirin Alam Hooli were carried out in Iran at dawn. Another political prisoner, Mehdi Eslamian, was also …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Suppression, Terror, Violence, Women | 2 Comments