“No friends but the mountains,” is the old Kurdish proverb that seems unable to be shaken off in Kurdish circles around the world. Perhaps it is so because there is more than what meets the eye, or the ears, when …
Posted in Discrimination, Executions, Iran, Media, Suppression, Syria, Turkey, WMD | 1 CommentThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern over what the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling an ‘execution binge’ taking place in Iran. A number of reports have indicated that since the start of …
Posted in Executions, Featured, Iran, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression, Torture, United Nations, Violence | 3 CommentsVoices that are buried under the debris of silence A letter by Kurdish rights activist Ms. Soraya Fallah to Ms. Shirin Abadi concerning the imminent execution of a female Kurdish political prisoner Zainab Jalalian. (Translated to English from Farsi by …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Women | Comments Off on Rights activist’s letter of concern over imminent execution of political prisoner in IranKurdish political prisoner Mr. Farhad Tarom has reportedly become the latest executed prisoner in Iran according to a number of independent sources inside Iran. According to the outlawed Kurdish News Agency, Mr. Farhad Tarom had been residing in Iraqi Kurdistan …
Posted in Censorship, Executions, Iran, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression, Terror, Violence | 1 CommentJust a couple of weeks after activists worldwide began protesting the imminent risk of execution of Kurdish political prisoner, Mr. Habibollah Latifi, Iranian authorities reportedly executed another political prisoner, Mr. Hossein Khezri. A number of unverified reports state that Mr. …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Iran, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression, Terror, Violence | 1 CommentRights group decries ‘execution binge’ in Iran Associated Press: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities have unleashed an “execution binge” with an average rate of one person hanged every eight hours since the beginning of the year, a rights …
Posted in Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Terror, Violence | Comments Off on AP: Iran unleashes ‘execution binge’ with average of one hanged every 8 hoursBelow is a letter by Haibollah Golparipour, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death in April 2010 on Mohareb (waging war against God) charges. The letter, addressed to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenai describes the horrific physical and …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture | 1 CommentAccording to a number of individual sources, Kurdish political prisoner – Mohammad Amin Agoushi – has gone on hunger strike since August 15th. Mr. Agoushi is being held at the central prison in Orumieh and has been sentenced to death …
Posted in Censorship, Executions, Hunger Strikes, Iran, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression, Violence | 1 Comment