Hou 121 Among all eyes, One is lessBut among all the wise, More than a thousand is less… Dr. Ahmad Sadr Hajj Seyed Javadi, the rare man of the history of Iran’s peoples’ rights died and finally the soil embraced the tired and ailing body of this brave patriot.His divine justice-seeking and high spirit […]
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Longtime Iranian political activist, Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi Died
Veteran Iranian political activist Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi (24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013), who co-founded the Freedom Movement, a nationalist-religious organization, has died at the age of 96 in Tehran on Sunday 11 Farvardin 1392 (31 March 2013)He was born into a clerical family in Qazvin on 24 June 1917. […]
Iranian Bar Association Under Siege
First, they arrested the civil and political activists. Then they arrested the lawyers representing those activists. Then, they arrested the lawyers defending the imprisoned lawyers. Then, when there were no more lawyers left to defend the civil and political activists, they took steps towards taking over the Bar Association.
The “End of Stoning”: Islamic Republic Style
Huffington Post – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran in his latest report, published on March 7th, welcomed the omission of stoning as a punishment in the newly ratified Islamic Penal Code, but expressed his concern that severe punishments may still be issued at a […]
Pushed Back to Square One
Huffington Post – Two years ago, when Iran’s uprising was still very much in the streets, everyone outside Iran was very much involved with the nuclear business.
Senior Iranian Activist Says Revolutionary Courts ‘Illegal’
A founding member of the opposition Freedom Movement of Iran has written an open letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for the dissolution of the country’s revolutionary courts, Radio Farda reports.
Lebanon and Iran urge Libyan rebels to probe 33-year-old mystery
libya-missing-cleric Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in 1978 Shia across Middle East eager to find out whether Moussa al-Sadr, a cleric who disappeared in 1978, is still alive
The Women Who are Political Prisoners
On Wednesday, lawyer and activist Shadi Sadr spoke about the situation of the women who are political prisoners in Iran: Exactly two years ago today, the largest protesting demonstration of the Iranian people after the 1979 revolution took place between Enghelab or Revolution square and Azadi or Freedom square.