by Sadra | Oct 13, 2017 | Media
This article was originally published by Wired. Firuzeh Mahmoudi didn’t mean to start a human-rights movement. It was June 20, 2009, and in Berkeley, California, the American-Irani, who left Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, watched on social media as tens...
by Sadra | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog
SAN FRANCISCO – This week, Iranian authorities released Mahvash Sabet from prison almost ten years after arresting her for peaceful religious participation. Sabet, one of the Yaran-i-Iran (“friends of Iran”) and the so-called “Bahá’í Seven,” was arrested and...
by Sadra | Sep 7, 2017 | Media
This article was originally published by Mobile World Live. Iran’s new telecommunication minister wants to take legal action against Apple for removing Iranian apps from the App Store due to US sanctions, Press TV reported. In a tweet, telecommunication minister...
by Sadra | Aug 25, 2017 | Media
This article was originally published by Voice of America. California nonprofit United4Iran is on a mission to build technologies to help Iranian society tackle sexual violence, women’s rights, and other challenges. Its latest app – Michka – takes on child sexual...
by Sadra | Aug 23, 2017 | Media
This article was originally published by Inter Press Service. UNITED NATIONS, Aug 23 2017 (IPS) – United For Iran, a non profit group based in Berkeley, recently rolled out its latest mobile app Michka to open discussions about child sexual abuse in Iran, where...
