Monthly Bulletin on Iran June 2010
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arrests two journalists AFP, 1 June
Two Iranian journalists working for pro-reform newspapers, were arrested within two weeks of the anniversary of the disputed reelection of President Ahmadinejad, reported Tuesday the site of the opposition rahesabz.net
"Azam and Veisameh ; Mahboubeh Khansari were arrested by intelligence officers about midnight, "reported the site, adding that their homes were searched and their computers confiscated ...
Minister to Visit Iran in the EP triggered an outcry Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Brussels, 1 June
A visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has sparked outrage Tuesday at the European Parliament in Brussels, with one member calling him "a murderer".
The British Conservative Struan Stevenson launched his verbal attack does Mottaki before the Committee on Foreign Affairs for a hearing in camera. He held a picture of Soltan Agha, a student killed last year during protests against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected.
A dozen members of the center-right in Italy, Spain and Estonia took part in the protest, but all were repulsed by security abruptly to make way for Mr. Mottaki. A brief scuffle
followed between MEPs and Parliament's guards, but no injuries were reported.
Members and officials of the European Parliament, who listened to Mr Mottaki said he rejected any criticism of Iran on human rights and that he had defended the country's nuclear program, which Western nations fear it may be used for military purposes ...
Hanging two men Shirvan Shargh Daily / AFP, June 2
Two men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were executed in Shirvan in the northeast. The two defendants were arrested in possession of six kilos of "crystal" (methamphetamine). They were hanged on Monday ...
Arrests of women held for "indecent" The Washington Post, June 2
The Iranian authorities have begun police patrols in the capital to stop women wearing outfits deemed incorrect. The campaign against the full veil and other signs of modernity comes as opponents of the government calling for protests to mark the anniversary of the disputed presidential election, and critics of the crackdown say it stirs discontent.
But the radicals, the improper veiling is a "security issue" and the "moral laxity" threatens the heart of the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian interior minister has promised a "plan of chastity" to promote adequate held "kindergarten through families, although the details are not clear. Tehran police arrest women for wearing short coats or veils or unfit even be too tanned. Witnesses speak of fines up to $ 800 for an outfit deemed immodest ...
A young hanged in Isfahan Site Network of Iran, June 2
Said, 25, was hanged in the prison's central city of Isfahan. He was accused of kidnapping and abuse against a student.
ban the burqa: Iran denounces "intolerance" Europe's AFP, June 2
The Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday described as "disturbing" and "intolerant" projects of European countries like France or Belgium for a complete ban full Islamic veil ... "We hope that EU leaders will reflect on this, we attach particular importance to the rights of religious minorities," he said, and "we consider the steps taken in some Western countries as worrisome for the country Muslims "...
The new sailing high-tech "Iran's -Iran Focus Tehran, June 3
While Iran hardens its annual pre-summer crackdown on women in business suits deemed" indecent, "the official Iranian media are promoting a new veil "high-tech fashion. The new sailing
"chador" covered from head to toe is black with 14 ultimate details, as the possibility for women to access their purse from underneath. This web
avant-garde also allows women to adjust the openings of the face and hands when they wear.
It took four years to design and test the chador Jalabib before his presentation on the market. Jahan
site, near the country's intelligence services, has published photos of this creation accompanied an article entitled "The 14 characteristics of a new veil for women."
hanged four men in Yazd agency Fars / AFP, June 3
Four men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were executed in Yazd in central Iran.
Three men were sentenced for possession of 230 kilograms of various drugs. The fourth run was found guilty of possession of 295 kg of narcotics ...
They were identified by their initials A, Ch Kh., NVM, B. and MM
Five years in prison for a student and his brother Agency IRAN, June 3
Shabnam Madad-Zadeh, a student activist and his brother Farzad were sentenced to ten years in prison. Accused of acting "against state security" and being in contact with WIPO, Shabnam was arrested February 20, 2009 and imprisoned in Section 209 of Evin prison where she spent 70 days in total isolation. Shabnam and Farzad have undergone severe physical and psychological torture in prison, but they rejected all charges.
The court has sentenced both to 10 years imprisonment ...
Campaign FIDH and RSF to release the "prisoners of conscience" AFP, June 7
www. rsf-iran.org
The FIDH-International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched Thursday a campaign to free prisoners of conscience in Iran, during the first anniversary of the disputed presidential election in this country ...
According to the FIDH and RSF, there are still hundreds of political prisoners in Iran, while many of those arrested have been released provisionally, of criminal charges still on them.
Both associations are a special focus on 40 "prisoners of conscience", journalists, trade unionists, students, they demand the immediate release.
FIDH and RSF also asked the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights after the presidential and discuss the possibility to adopt individual sanctions against those responsible ...
In a report published these days, Amnesty International also denounced an amplification of repression: "The Iranian government is determined to silence all dissent while trying to prevent the international community engages in a detailed examination of the violations. "
14 prisoners executed in one day Iran Focus, June 8
Fourteen prisoners were hanged together yesterday in the prison-Ghezel Hessar in Karaj (west Tehran).
The names of some prisoners of Ghezel-Hessar were announced. This is Ahmad Shah-Bakhch, Abdol-Hossein Soltan-Abadi, Massoud Amir K. Tachtaki Kazem Mohammad Azarfam, Nader Azarnouch, Sandjar Toutazahi, Baghi Amini, Mohammad Moradi. The hangings took place without the presence of their lawyers ...
Ferrari veiled face of Ahmadinejad in Iran Le Point, June 9
Laurence Ferrari was the event on Monday evening, when with his head wrapped in a white veil against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The veil of the journalist was able to move some within the drafting of TF1.
So even before the airing of the interview, the buzz spread Editorial Writing ...
UN adopts a fourth package of sanctions against Iran Reuters, June 9
The Security Council UN adopted Wednesday by 12 votes for, two against and one abstention a fourth package of sanctions against Iran, accused by the West to pursue a nuclear program for military purposes ... The five permanent members, including China and Russia traditionally restive to punish Iran, have approved the text submitted by the United States and its allies the British, French and German ...
In Vienna, headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran said it would not suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
The resolution provides for new measures against Iranian banks abroad that could be suspected of links with the military or nuclear programs.
It extends the UN embargo on arms sales to Tehran and established a blacklist of companies and individuals covered by sanctions.
Obama calls for support for advocates of freedom in Iran AFP, June 11
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the international community to support the Iranians who fight for "freedom "A year after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ebadi:" Do not focus on nuclear, denounce violations of democracy " AFP, June 11
Iranian Activist rights Human Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Thursday urged the international community to "stop focusing his attention on nuclear power," but to denounce the "abuses of human rights and democracy in Iran" ...
91 arrests during the anniversary of the re-election of Ahmadinejad ISNA / AFP, June 13
Eighty-eleven people were arrested in Tehran on Saturday on the first anniversary of the reelection of President ; Ahmadinejad, said Chief of Police of Greater Tehran, Hossein Sadjadinia.
"91 suspects were arrested and brought to justice, "said Commander Sadjadinia without specifying reasons or circumstances of these arrests.
" No fighting has taken place, "he said.
isolated incidents were reported Saturday Tehran between opposition supporters and security forces, particularly on campuses of two universities in the capital.
According to testimony and websites, small opposition groups have also attempted to gather in central Tehran , but were deterred by the massive deployment of security forces.
authorities had banned all opposition demonstration.
The two main opposition figures reformist Mehdi Mir Hossein Moussavi and Karoubi, had in turn called their supporters not to protest to avoid triggering a new wave of repression.
The opposition does not recognize the victory of President Ahmadinejad and said that the elections of June 12, 2009 was marred by massive fraud.
71 women "badly veiled" prevented from flying Agency ILNA / AFP, June 14
Seventy-one women "mal-veiling" were prevented from flying to Over the last three months while only 33,000 passengers, men and women had to change clothes before boarding according to a police official.
During the 82 days of the Iranian year that began March 21, "border police prevented 71 women badly veiled boarding the plane. They were brought to justice" for non- observance of Islamic veil, said Nabiollah Heydari, the police chief of airports.
He added that "33,029 men and women dressed badly had to change clothes before being allowed to board the plane."
Finally, according to himself, "87,714 women badly veiled warnings were given," while 3,506 others had to give a "written commitment" to ensure the wearing of the veil in the future ...
In recent weeks, the morality police, as every year before summer, spoke to numerous arrests and intimidation of women holding deemed non-compliant with the precepts of Islam, that is to say, leaving see too much hair or too much skin. These women
"badly veiled" may be fined up to $ 1,300 ...
mobilization to free prisoners of conscience Elle.fr, June 15
A year after the protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, Tehran is trying to look good in announcing the result of 81 "protest". But according to Iranian site Hrana, more than 300 prisoners are still languishing in Iranian jails, half without any charge. Among them, many women, students and activists of human rights and feminist, as Shiva Nazar Ahari. Aged 26 years, this blogger site Azadizan (women's liberation), cofounder of the Committee of Iranian Journalists for Human Rights, is considered a "dangerous" by the activist government in power. Arrested last summer and then released, she was again imprisoned in December. His crime: having demonstrated peacefully in the street. She is still waiting in a cell in Evin prison in Tehran, a hypothetical trial constantly repulsed.
The Commission on Human Rights UN condemns repression in Iran -AP Geneva, 16 June
Western countries have criticized Iran over its record on Human Rights Tuesday after an attempt to Tehran and its Muslim allies to block the reading of a joint statement to the Council on Human Rights of the UN.
The United States and Norway urged Iran to respect its commitments to improve the situation of human rights on its territory, drafting a statement which has won support from 27 member countries of the European Union and more than two dozen other states. In total, 56 countries supported it, which is less than a third of UN member countries.
The statement, read by the Norwegian Ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen, acknowledges the concern about the''absence progress in protecting of human rights in Iran ", especially since the wave of arrests and repression against dissidents that followed the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad June 12, 2009.
" We can not allow this Council Meeting Human Rights held without marking the first anniversary of these events this month, "the statement said.
ISSUE ON 17 JUIN 2010 PRICES REMAIN HUMAN Azam HAJJ HEYDAR 
She flees her family to fight the fundamentalist mullahs. There was first the Shah's dictatorship, then of Khomeini and the mullahs ... Azam, Iranian girl, grows in the slums of south Tehran. His father, religious fanatic, a supporter of the hardline mullahs opposed to his schooling. Supported by her mother, a literate and perceptive, she earned her baccalaureate. At 13, she narrowly escaped a forced marriage with a mullah. Refusing to join his brothers in associations fanatics, constantly opposing his father, Azam gets beaten. More and more often. In 1978, Azam 20. Deprived of love, gagged, beaten and oppressed, she escapes and joins the movement of the Mujahideen the people ... Chased by the Revolutionary Guards, she gets arrested. She spent 7 years in prison, eight months squatting, blindfolded, in a cage. Tortured physically and psychologically, Azam did not work.
30 000 women will be executed in the Iranian prisons. In a country where opposition to the government is to oppose God, Azam chooses to resist. A riveting testimony and painful on one of the darkest periods of history, finding disturbing echoes with the horror of Nazi concentration camps.
award of stoning against a woman Mehr
Agency / Site Radio Farda, June 17
Held in Tabriz prison since 2005, Ashtiani Sakineh Mohammadi has been sentenced to death by stoning.
In May 2006 the Criminal Court of the City of Oskou (northwest) sentenced him to 99 lashes for adultery. Having served her sentence, she was released.
Four months later, the 6th Division of the Criminal Court of Azerbaijan was again sentenced to death by stoning for adultery during the marriage.
recent years Sakineh asked for clemency; twice his applications were rejected ...
Two men hanged in Zahedan Daily Farhang Ashti / AFP, June 19
Accused of rape and murder, a man was hanged June 15 in prison in the city of Zahedan (southeast). The convict was identified as Akbar H.
government daily Iran AFP, June 20 Identified only by his first name Jamshid, was hanged in Zahedan. He was convicted of raping a young woman in April. The date of his hanging was not specified.
Hanging the head of IRNA Jondallah / Release, June 20
Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Iranian Sunni rebel group Jundullah, accused of having carried out numerous armed attacks in the province of Sistan -Baluchistan (southeast), was hanged on Sunday morning ...
Neda's murderer must be brought to justice AFP, June 19
Amnesty International called on Saturday that the murderer be tried Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian killed by gunfire last year during a demonstration in Tehran and whose death was filmed live and put on the Internet triggering a wave of emotion in the world.
"One year after the killing of Agha-Soltan, the fact that his murderer has not appeared before justice is a damning example of the culture of impunity that has spread since the post-election protests in 2009 "Amnesty International said in a statement on the eve of first anniversary of his death ...
Amnesty has also called on Iranian authorities to allow visits of experts on Human Rights. The organization points out that since 2005 no visits of experts on Human Rights UN had been allowed and that at least five requests to visit the UN remained unanswered.
Women "badly veiled": 62.000 warnings distributed in Qom AFP, June 21
Some 62,000 women "badly veiled" have received warnings from the police in the province of Qom, whose capital 150 km south of Tehran is the main religious city of Iran, local media reported Monday.
Approximately "62,000 women have been hit badly veiled warnings," said Chief of Police of the province, Colonel Mehdi Khorasani, quoted by the daily Tehran Emrouz. It added that military police had also seized a hundred cars "for bad veiling" by passengers.
The police chief did not specify whether warnings were given in the same city or on the roads of the province, nor what was the period in question.
The Province of Qom has just over one million people, concentrated in this city which is the main religious center of the country.
"Encouraging the wrong Islamic headscarves and permissiveness are among the objectives of the enemy," continued Colonel Khorassani.
The question of the fight against women considered "mal-veiled", which is experiencing an annual increase before the summer, especially in large cities, has become a subject for several weeks of debate within the government ...
"For Neda" The strength of a symbol Telerama, June 24
Yesterday at La Rochelle, the ball projections of "Sunny Side of the Doc 's is opened with a very moving documentary, produced by HBO. A portrait as a tribute to the late Agha Soltan, Iran in 27 years killed during demonstrations in Tehran in June 2009, has since become the image of a people marching to freedom. Our first shot of heart.
"For Neda" begins as a portrait of a young woman. Rebel since childhood (the burqa, for example), Neda loved to dance. Coquette, she wanted to go to class without undergoing the cleansing rule imposed by an army of militia at the gates of the university. Neda liked to travel - she had made several trips to Turkey. She loved the foreign literature (from Siddhartha to Hundred Years of Solitude highly subversive books in the Islamic Republic of Iran).
British director Anthony Thomas, after a proper investigation, reconstituted these moments where everything changes. Images taken at mobile phone first show of peaceful Iranians. Then come the police reprisals, they beat up people with batons ... Before opening fire. One of the protesters seized the moment Neda is killed.
Rally and diplomatic success for the Iranian Mojahedin AFP-Taverny June 26
The People's Mujahedeen gathered Saturday tens of thousands of opponents of the Iranian regime near Paris, winning a diplomatic success with the presence of personalities such as former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton.
"No to fascism in turbans, not stoning, executions and amputations, to sail non-compulsory, the compulsory religion, the government imposed", proclaimed in Persian Maryam Rajavi, the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), whose main component is the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).
"The Iranian people will continue their resistance until the overthrow of the dictatorship. It resists such as France and European countries have resisted Hitler. The only solution is the Iranian crisis is the third way: neither war nor appeasement, but democratic change by Iranian people and resistance, "she said in French, dressed in an elegant blue together green and wearing his usual veil.
Before her, a forest of purple umbrellas housed supporters cheering, chanting "Azadi, Azadi" (freedom, freedom), one year after the repression of popular demonstrations against the controversial re-election Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
At the stadium entrance, a poster warned participants, revealing photos of a dozen people presented as "intelligence agents" of the Iranian regime. As if in response, a huge billboard next to the podium bearing the portraits of hundreds of Iranians, "fallen hero for freedom."
Dozens of elected officials from across Europe attended the gathering.
"I support your struggle for freedom and democracy. The Iranian people have suffered enough. It demands and deserves a better government that respects people's dignity and ensures fundamental freedoms, "said former English Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
" The Iranian regime has been founded and maintained by shedding the blood of Iranians since 1979 until today. The international community should increase pressure on the Iranian regime, but sanctions are not enough, Iran deserves a change of regime, "he added.
Even more significant was the presence of John Bolton, widely acclaimed at the rally , while the People's Mujahedeen on the list of terrorist organizations of the United States.
"The Iranian regime has become a military dictatorship, fascist and repressive. But the crackdown that followed the rigged elections of 2009 showed how the regime is criminal and the powerful opposition. Iran is more than ready for democracy, "said the former diplomat, urging his country to remove the PMOI from its list of terrorist organizations.
At the rally, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Vice-President of Parliament Europe, presented a statement of support for the NCRI signed, he said, by a majority of MEPs.
Nearly 100,000 people were expected, organizers said. Members of the Iranian diaspora have come from all over Europe North America and Australia including many young people, but many supporters are not of Iranian origin. The gathering took place in a festive atmosphere, between Persian music, booths selling political books and CDs.
Demonstration outside the Embassy of France in Tehran IRNA / AFP, June 28
Hundreds of people demonstrated Monday outside the embassy of France in Tehran chanting "Shame on you, Sarkozy" and "Death to France "to protest against a gathering near Paris, supporters of an Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin ...
few plastic bottles and eggs were thrown at the embassy but at the request of the organizers, these jets were arrested, according to an AFP photographer on the spot.
Hundreds of police were mobilized to prevent any overflow, but access to the embassy had been closed as a precaution.
The demonstrators also shouted "Death to America", "Death to Israel" and "Death to Monafeqin (hypocrites term used by authorities to designate the PMOI). "France was complicit in the crimes of Monafeqin" could be read another placard.
Imminent execution of Zeinab Jalalian CSDHI, June 29
The Kurdish political prisoner Jalilian Zeinab was transferred to a special section of the prison, his execution may be imminent. According to the site
Street Journalist, if the news of the imminent execution of Zeinab is not confirmed officially, but suggests she is in danger: A
unconfirmed report on the imminent execution of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian running since this morning.
this regard, Kurdish Perspective states that following the confirmation of his conviction to death by the court of appeal, his case was sent to the executive branch of the Revolutionary Court.
arrested two years ago, Zeinab is accused of cooperating with the PKK.
She was tried without the presence of the lawyer she had chosen and the trial lasted only a few minutes.
Calling Zeinab was recently rejected by the court and his death sentence was confirmed.
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