QIZLHASAR, Iran — Kamil Fethullahi a Kurdish civil activist from the suburb of Pawe who had been held in Qizlhasar Detention was killed under torture. Not long ago he was arrested in his accommodation in Tehran by a group of …
Posted in Discrimination, Displacements, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Kurdistan, Reports, Terror, Torture | Comments Off on Iran killed a Kurdish activist under tortureHosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …
Posted in Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Iraq, Journalists, Kurdistan, Media, Reports, Suppression, Syria, Terror, Turkey, Violence | Comments Off on “Without me, there will be civil war, there will be chaos:” The last card of unpopular dictatorsKurdish 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 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 | Comments Off on Iran’s Growing Paranoia Leads to Ravaging of Vulnerable MinoritiesAs 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 CommentsFollowing the March 21 shooting at Kurds celebrating Norouz (new year) in the town of Ar-Raqqah, which left at least one person dead, the international human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have issued statements today. According to …
Posted in Human Rights Watch, Suppression, Syria, Terror, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Issue Statements on the Syria Norouz Shooting