February 2010
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Another activist banned from teaching at the University
Bulletin Amir Kabir, February 1
Vasefi, an activist who taught at the Beheshti University e in Tehran since 2006 was dismissed Jan. 20.
It is the third woman, Narges Mohammadi and after Samira Sadri, to be fired recently.
The Iranian ambassador caught in a scuffle with the police
Express / France 24, 1 February
The Iranian ambassador to France and his entourage were heckled by opponents Iran on Sunday. The intervention of the national police prevented the confrontation from slipping. The case has not been reported by Iranian media. But the incident was filmed in its entirety.
The hanging took place on Sunday, when members of the Iranian Embassy, came to Neauphle-le-Château to commemorate the return of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979, came face to face with anti-government protesters. When the Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Mir Aboutaleb gets there, he protested to the police, who take both sides at a distance. The tension escalates and more people try to force their way to the other party. In the scuffle, the ambassador was briefly detained by police.
Under pressure from families, 30 new prisoners released
Witnesses Tehran, February 2
again this evening more than a thousand families of political prisoners and martyrs of the uprising gathered outside Evin prison to demand the release of their relatives.
Already a Saturday night crowd of 2,000 people had obtained the release of 23 prisoners. Tonight's 30 prisoners of the uprising that had just been released.
We must salute the perseverance of these families despite the threats and dangers maintain their manifestations and acts of protest for 7 months and will continue until the liberation of all political prisoners.
CPF condemns the killings and the violence of the regime in Tehran
PCF, February 3
The French Communist Party expresses its indignation and condemnation after executions which were recently victims four Iranians, two Kurds and two persons arrested during the protests that followed the coup election last June.
The face of protest Iranian requests asylum in Germany
AFP, February 5
An Iranian unwittingly become the face of the Iranian challenge has asked asylum in Germany after the regime's threats, says the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Friday.
Neda Soltani, 32, a lecturer in English literature at Tehran University, had his picture spread across the world after the events that followed the June presidential elections in Iran.
It is presented as Soltan-Agha, the 26 year old student killed June 20 on a street in Tehran, and whose death was filmed live and put on the internet, sparking a wave of emotion and indignation in the world.
The confusion was quickly discovered. Neda Soltani's photo was downloaded from the social network Facebook, where the teacher had a profile, and taken to a snapshot of the other Neda.
Within days, this photo was printed on t-shirts and posters and published in dozens of newspapers around the world.
In the report published by the weekly magazine supplement of the SZ, Neda Soltani, who had no political activities, said he tried to alert the media about the confusion, but without much success.
July 2, she left Iran because of threats from the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, she says in this article that contains virtually no direct quotes.
"Even today in Germany, she will not say by whom and how she was threatened by fear for his family" stayed in Iran, says the SZ.
The newspaper is not clear where she now lives in Germany, merely to evoke a meeting near Frankfurt and a home for asylum seekers where she resides.
September Baha'is could be sentenced to death
Le Monde, February 5
September Baha'is could be sentenced to death in Iran today. Held for twenty months, these five men and two women 37 to 76 years are charged by the Iranian judiciary of being "corrupt on earth".
A women's rights defender detained
AI, February 5
Somayeh Rashidi, women's rights advocate and student of 24 years, is being held in Evin prison since his arrest on December 19, 2009. Amnesty International believes that she is incarcerated because of his activities on behalf of women's rights. It is not allowed to see his lawyers or his family.
Four activists sentenced for prisoners' moharebeh "
Activists of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, February 5
Four activists arrested during the recent uprising and jailed since Sunday were found. The ladies
Aghai, Kazemi, Massoumi, Zahra Jabari were accused of "moharebeh" (go to war against God). Ms.
Massoumi rejected this declaration that she confessed under torture.
Zahra Jabari was also tortured in prison. His nails were pulled out because his parents who reside in Ashraf
the camp of opponents of the regime in Tehran in Iraq.
A defender of women's rights under a fatwa regime
L'Express, February 7
The Afghan Ali Mohaqiq Nasab is both Mullah, journalist and human rights of women. A cocktail that was not the taste of the religious authorities of Iran and Afghanistan. Death threat since 2005, he has now found refuge in France.
Ali Mohaqiq Nasab has abandoned the traditional Afghan costume for a Western look: a blue jacket, a turtleneck sweater and gray pants classic. It measures 1.70 m in, has crow's feet that gently pucker when he takes the urge to smile. He is 53 years old, a wife and 5 children still in Afghanistan.
JO-2010: Marjan Kalhor, flagship and first Iranian Winter Games
AFP, February 7
Marjan Kalhor grew up on the slopes of the ski resort of Winter Dizin, north of Tehran, but never thought she would accomplish such a feat, that of being, at age 21, the first Iranian to participate in the Winter Olympics ...
only woman in a four-member delegation and one representative from the Middle East, it was due to fly Monday for
Canada ... Under the strict dress code in force in the Islamic Republic, Kalhor wear a headscarf under her helmet during the tests.
"Skiing is a sport where you have to be fully clothed. So there is no problem about the holding: I shall observe the Islamic dress code."
Women arrested
Site Change for Equality, February 7
Security Forces arrested Mahsa Jazini a student in Isfahan that had been banned from education. According to testimony, she was arrested at 1:30 am to be 'feminist'. It has been and transferred to the central prison of Isfahan last night.
Activists of Human Rights, February 7
Kazem-Khah Zeinab, a reporter from a state news agency was arrested at 3:00 am Sunday after nine officers Haute Surveillance of State have invaded her home. She was taken to an unknown destination. These officers showed him an arrest warrant accusing him of having participated in demonstrations. All his belongings were confiscated.
Committee of Human Rights in Iran, February 7
Somayeh Momeini, journalist and activist in the One Million Signatures Campaign was arrested at her home on February 7. According to testimony, she was arrested at 3 o'clock in the morning by security forces. There is no information on his situation.
Nine journalists arrested
Etemad Daily / AFP, February 8
Nine Iranian journalists working for various media, including a photographer, were arrested over the past two days.
Etemad reported arrests Mr. Akbar Montajabi, chief of the weekly political reformer Dokht Iran, and Ms. Mahsa Jazini working for the government daily Iran in Isfahan (central), and Mr Ahmad Jalali Farahani, agency Mehr. ..
Before this wave of arrests, Reporters Without Borders estimated that at least 42 the number of journalists detained in Iran since the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 and the ensuing protests.
New death sentence
ISNA / AFP, February 9
An Iranian man has been sentenced to capital for participation in the anti-government riots in late December, bringing to 12 the number of people sentenced to death for their involvement in protests from the opposition.
"Nine heads of disorders of Ashura were sentenced: one to death and eight others were sentenced to prison," said a statement from Tehran prosecutor's office ...
The U.S. and EU condemn violations of human rights in Iran
AFP, February 10
The United States and the European Union Monday condemned "the continuing violations of human rights "in Iran since the election presidential June 2009, in a joint statement released by the White House ...
Clashes near the Italian Embassy in Tehran
AFP, February 11
In Tehran, dozens of suspected militiamen Islamic Tuesday attacked the Italian Embassy with stones before being stopped by the police to storm.
Protesters were previously gone to the embassies of Germany and France, protected by a large force of police, against whom they threw stones and eggs, according television images broadcast Tuesday.
France and Italy have taken positions in peak demand, with the United States, a strengthening of sanctions against Iran after Tehran's decision Tuesday to launch the production of highly enriched uranium.
Celebrations under surveillance in Iran
Le Figaro, February 11
The traditional events for the anniversary of the Islamic revolution of 1979 was the occasion on Thursday in Tehran, a new face-to-face meeting between the authorities and opposition. On television
official were released in the loop images of hundreds of thousands of Iranians - millions by the comments - came to hear the speech by President Ahmadinejad on the spot Azadi (freedom). Shouting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America", they wore Iranian flags and placards bearing the image of the guide of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile, despite the warnings, the regime's opponents gathered on other arteries. The main opposition leaders were in effect again called on their supporters to abandon their homes to make their voices heard.
"Thousands and thousands of supporters of the green movement are in the streets, "said opposition website Rahesabz. Information could not be confirmed from independent sources.
Maryam Rajavi welcomes the insurgents and said that the regime's days are numbered
CNRI, February 11
The president-elect of the Iranian Resistance has congratulated the Iranian people for the victory of his determination crackdown on the Iranian regime and its revolt today. This desire of glory, she added, will get the victory, freedom and Democracy for Iran.
She praised the women, men and youth who courageously took to the streets and with their cries of "death to dictator" and "Death to Khamenei" shake the foundations of the regime of the mullahs. Today, she told them, you've ripped from the clutches of the mullahs the anniversary of the anti-monarchist revolution.
There is no doubt that Iran also will get rid of their occupation. The Bell Tolls uprising of the religious fascism ruling Iran and shows that the countdown has begun for this scheme.
The uprising of the Iranian people today she said, sends a clear message to the international community, particularly the European Union and the United States, like what this regime will disappear. While economic and political investment in this scheme is doomed to failure.
economic and diplomatic relations with the mullahs have used so far in maintaining the plan and went against the Iranian people. They must cease.
BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America denounced interference by Iran
AFP, February 12
The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America denounced the interference of their broadcasts by the Iranian authorities, in a joint statement released Friday ...
Barriers media denounced
AFP, February 12
France has denounced today the barriers imposed on national and international media, saying that doing so "Iran's leaders away every day of their people "and further isolate themselves internationally ...
Iran says able to enrich uranium to 100%
Reuters February 11
Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium to 100% but does not intend to do so unless we are forced, said the director of the Iranian Organization of the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in an interview to Reuters ...
EU supports democracy demonstrators (Ashton)
AFP, February 12
The European Union "supports" those who demonstrate for democracy in Iran, Human Rights and fundamental freedoms, said Thursday its chief diplomat, Ashton.
The Iranian nation deserves a different fate
The West has strongly deceived by investing in the plan's ability to transform
By Maryam Rajavi Le Figaro, February 12
The day after the anniversary of the revolution President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi condemns the growing repression against the People's Mujahideen.
"Former Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson asked me one day: how the Iranian people, heir to a civilization so great, he could undergo to a regime as backward as that of Khomeini? I told him that the people had not accepted the plan, it was imposed, 120 000 people were executed. Today, eight months of rebellion prove that the Iranian nation will not accept the fanatical regime and deserves a different fate. She has shown a willingness to overthrow the regime and take control of their destiny ... .
Ebadi advocates sanctions against Tehran political
Reuters, February 12
Shirin Ebadi urged the international community to impose sanctions policies against the Iranian government ...
"I'm against economic sanctions and military attacks. However, if the Iranian government continues to violate human rights and ignore the demands of the people, then I would start to think of political sanctions," she told a conference on Iran.
"Do not sell weapons to the Iranian government," she added.
"I do not mean that we should completely cut ties with the Iranian government. But I think diplomatic relations at a lower level, for example by ordering the recall of ambassadors and dealing with relationships at the level of charge and business or at the consular level, "she told Reuters then.
She also suggested that refusing to issue visas to Iranian officials and Iranian official delegations ...
World Press Photo 2009
Pietro Masturzo winner World Press Photo 2009 with a picture on the protest movement in Iran
AP, February 12
Masturzo Pietro, independent Italian photographer, won first prize on Friday at World Press Photo 2009, which rewarded his photo of an Iranian shouting his anger on a roof after Tehran the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency.
Five other members of the minority Baha'i arrested
AP, February 14
The Javan newspaper, which has links with the Revolutionary Guards, said Niki Khanjani, daughter of Jamaloddin Khanjani, one of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned since 2008 on charges of harming national security, was among five people arrested.
The daily did not provide details of the charges against five arrested Ashkan Basari, Houman Sisani Maria Jafari, Niki Khanjani, Romina Zabihian, but stresses that many Baha'is have fled to neighboring countries and border areas of Iran having fomented the unrest that erupted in Iran in the wake of the disputed presidential June.
The Iranian authorities have repeatedly accused members of the minority Baha'i faith to be involved in the agitation ...
The minority is also being prosecuted for his faith, banned in 1979 after the Islamic revolution. The Baha'i faith was founded in the 1860s by Baha'u'llah, a Persian nobleman considered as a prophet by his followers.
Fatemeh Karroubi denounced the violence against his son
AP, February 14
The wife of one of the opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi on Sunday asked the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to stop tolerating "violence and cruelty" against opponents.
In an open letter to Ali Khamenei, published Sunday on a website reformer Fatameh Karroubi said his son Ali was savagely beaten after being arrested on February 11 to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Republic ...
Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, received several blows with a truncheon on the head, until the people form a human chain around her to protect and evacuate.
Mehdi Karroubi's car was attacked and its windows shattered. Karroubi's son, Taghi, said Feb. 12 by phone that his brother Ali, 36, was arrested by security forces on 11 and "tortured": "They violently beat almost (...) until death, "he said.
He was later released and taken to the hospital, he said by telephone a reporter abroad. His condition is serious, he has a broken arm and suffered internal bleeding, he said.
An environmental activist detained without charge
IA, February 15
Mahfarid Mansourian, environmental activist and performer, has been held since Feb. 8 at the Evin prison in Tehran.
To the knowledge of Amnesty International, she has not been charged. The organization believes that this 46 year old woman is a prisoner of conscience ...
Hillary Clinton said fear "a military dictatorship "in Iran
AFP, February 15
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on tour in the Gulf, said Monday that Iran does not fear moving" toward a military dictatorship, "with companies controlled by the Revolutionary Guards who "supplant" government agencies ...
Western countries denounced the "bloody repression" in Iran
AFP, February 16
Western countries have denounced the Monday morning "bloody repression" against opponents of the regime in Tehran during the consideration of situation in Iran by the Council for Human Rights to the UN in Geneva ...
Iran rejects UN recommendations
IA, February 17, 2010 This
February 17, Amnesty International criticized the decision by Iran to reject key recommendations made by the UN in order to improve the human rights situation in that country.
Some of the recommendations rejected by Iran include: an end to executions of juvenile offenders, compliance with safeguards for fair trials, investigations into allegations of torture, including rape, and release of those incarcerated simply for peaceful exercise of their fundamental rights.
It is also a paying lip that the Iranian delegation expressed the idea of cooperation with the Commission on Human Rights.
If he actually accepted a recommendation by the appellant to cooperate with human rights experts of the UN, Iran has rejected several other measures to enable the Special Rapporteur on Torture, mandated by the Council to go there ...
The Delegation accepted 123 recommendations, reserved its opinion on 20 others and rejected the remaining 45. The many
contradictions that characterize the authorities choose to accept or reject some recommendations suggest Amnesty International puzzled ...
Together Against the Death Penalty denounced the proposed execution of two Iranian
ECPM, 18 February
Omid Dana, a young Iranian, 26, arrested during the events of Ashura December 27 last and Mohammad Yousef Rashidi, Polytechnic University student was arrested on November 27, sentenced to death, face imminent execution. According
Pars Daily News' Dana Omid is neither activist nor activist known but simple Iranian citizen unknown to the public and participating in demonstrations. " He was convicted of "Moharebeh" [Fighting God] Wednesday, February 3, 2010, by a revolutionary court. Omid Dana was being shown to confess his "crimes", on the sixth string of Iranian state television during his trial ... Mohammad Yousef Rashidi, he has been arrested after protesting on the grounds of the Polytechnic University brandishing a placard which reads: "Fascist president, you're not in your place at the Polytechnic"
Association ECPM strongly denounces French project execution and Dana Omid Rashidi Mohammad Youssef, and also condemns the use of the death penalty as a tool of political repression and oppression of the Iranian people. ECPM-called international community and the EU, in particular, to strongly condemn all executions of dissidents in Iran.
The next bishop of France "measures" against Iran
Reuters, February 20
Western countries have no other choice but to seek the adoption of "new measures" against Iran in the coming weeks if the Tehran regime persists refuse to dialogue, "said French Prime Minister. On a visit to Damascus, Francois Fillon said it was "very worrying" the new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who spoke Thursday for the first time the possible existence of a military aspect to Iran's nuclear program .
In unusually direct terms, the report suggests that Tehran is seeking to acquire the means to make nuclear weapons ...
in Zahedan Execution
CSDHI, February 20
On 20 February the regime hanged a prisoner Sunni named Dadullah Moradzehi Hajj, after eight months in prison in Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchestan province (southeast).
This execution occurs when many Sunni clerics and dignitaries of the province had intervened to prevent his execution recalling that the victim had participated in the construction of numerous Sunni mosques in the region. His nephew Khodayar Rahmat-Zehi-Chahnavazi, 35, was also hanged Jan. 23, 2010 after four years' imprisonment. He was arrested after an explosion outside his home.
Two hanging in Isfahan
Kayhan Daily, 22 February
Two other prisoners, Abdollah A., 46, and S. Mehdi, 36, were hanged in the central prison of Isfahan (central).
concerts canceled because musicians had to play
ISNA / AFP, Feb. 22
The Iranian authorities have canceled two concerts by a big name in traditional Iranian music programmed on Thursday and Friday in the city Tabriz (west) due to the presence of two women in his group ...
The first reason given for the cancellation of the two Homayoun Shajarian benefits seems contradict the law of the Islamic Republic, which allows women to play an instrument in a public concert.
Women are however not allowed to sing alone in public. They are only permitted to audiences exclusively female.
arrested the most wanted man in Iran
Euronews, February 23
Abdolmalek Righi was the most wanted person in Iran. He was arrested and transferred to Tehran on Tuesday. He is considered the leader of the rebel movement Jondallah [the soldiers of God]. This movement is committed in a struggle to defend the Sunni minority in this country, overwhelmingly Shiite.
To the Iranian authorities, the rebels Jondallah aim mostly at destabilizing the regime, supported in this by western countries.
"The day before his arrest, Abdolmalek Righi was on a U.S. base," said an Iranian intelligence official. He added: "He had traveled to several European countries just before. The Americans had provided an Afghan passport so he could travel to Pakistan. "
French MPs challenge Iran
AFP, February 26
Former Justice Minister Pascal Clement (UMP), and several of his fellow MPs have written to the Iranian authorities asking them to "put an immediate end to all death sentences and releasing all political prisoners. " Tonight the letter was cosigned by 23 UMP deputies, officials said with the UMP.
"We members of the French Republic, wish to express our dismay at the death sentences handed down against Mr. Omid Rashidi Mohammad Youssef Dana. We strongly condemn and binding all sentences for political reasons against Iranian demonstrators, "it said in the letter to Pascal Clément.
This letter is addressed to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani.
Brussels: Rajavi claimed "women's revolution" in Iran
English EFE News Agency, February 26
The leader of the Iranian Resistance in exile, Maryam Rajavi, Brussels has claimed the role of women in opposition to the regime headed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a movement, she said, which is considered a "revolution of women".
The Chair of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) gave a press conference with several members, in which it asked the European Union (EU) to take serious and concrete measures against the Iranian regime and the creation a special committee to address violations of human rights in the country. According
Maryam Rajavi, the active presence of women in the struggle against the Iranian regime "was not created overnight, but takes its roots in a "history of struggle and sacrifices over 150 years and in the nature of the current regime. "
Rajavi defended the most fundamental right of women to freely choose their clothing.
"Inspired by true Islam, we defend freedom, including freedom of women to choose their clothes," said Maryam Rajavi, who has called for the abolition of the compulsory wearing of the veil, adding that "it what the Qur'an means when it says that "there is no compulsion in religion". "
She also denounced the attacks on the camp of Iranian refugees in Ashraf (Iraq) in July, during which the NCRI has denounced the killing of at least seven people, and stressed the persistence of this enclave is a source of inspiration for women and youth in Iran.
For their part, MEPs from different countries and political groups expressed their support and solidarity with the Iranian Resistance and encouraged the Iranians to pursue their claims.
eight hangings in Birjand and Kerman
IRNA / AFP, Feb. 27
Three men convicted of the murder of several policemen and five armed drug traffickers were hanged respectively Birjand (east) and Kerman (south), reported Saturday the Iranian media.
The three men were executed before the families of police killed.
In addition, five men were hanged in Kerman (south), told the ISNA agency.
They were sentenced to death by a revolutionary court in Kerman. The media did not say when the eight performances.
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