Monthly Archives: May 2010

Iran’s Growing Paranoia Leads to Ravaging of Vulnerable Minorities

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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 …

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Kurds in Iraq and Turkey Express their Solidarity with Iranian Kurds

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Following 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 …

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Turkey: Kurdish Editor Kursun Sentenced to 166 Years in Jail (Updated)

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A 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 …

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Four Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed in Iran at Dawn

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As 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 …

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Demonstrators in Iraqi Kurdistan call for investigation of journalist murder

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Hundreds of students marched the streets of Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and called for an investigation into the murder of a Kurdish journalist. Sardasht Othman, a Kurdish journalist that was known for his critical writings of the …

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New Letter from Shirin Alam Hooli, a Kurdish Political Prisoner on Death Row in Iran

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Ms. Alam Hooli (born on June 3, 1981) was born in the village of Gheshlagh near the city of Maku in Iran. She was arrested in May of 2007 by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran. She spent the first 25 …

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Kurdish Activist Habibollah Golparipour Sentences to Death in Iran

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In late April, the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad sentenced the Kurdish activist Habibollah Golparipour to death on charges of “mohareb” (waging war against God). Golparipour, a native of Sanandaj, was arrested six months ago and first held in the Sanandaj …

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