Berlin students protest presence of Iran’s ambassador in Germany & caused school closure

by Sadra | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog

آلمان | 14.11.2009 اعتراض به حضور سفیر ایران در مدرسه‌ای در آلمان Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: دانش‌آموزان مدرسه‌ای در آلمان (عکس از آرشیو) اعتراض دانش‌‌آموزان مدرسه‌ای در آلمان به حضور سفیر ایران، موجب تعطیلی یک روزه‌ی این مدرسه شد. قرار است روز...

109 Human Rights Groups Ask United Nations to Condemn Human Rights Violations in Iran

by Sadra | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog

Global outpouring of solidarity with Iran’s human rights defenders (16 November 2009) New York – Over one hundred independent human rights and civil society organizations from around the world have urged delegations to the United Nations to support a resolution in the...

Letter to Members of the United Nations on Human Rights in Iran – November 2009

by Sadra | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog

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AP: Iran artists in tug of war with government

by Sadra | Nov 15, 2009 | Blog

By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI (AP) – Nov 14, 2009 BEIRUT — Iran’s greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country’s ruling hard-line clerics. So it was a bombshell when Shajarian — so revered that his...

BBC: Iran forms political web monitor

by Sadra | Nov 15, 2009 | Blog

Opposition supporters used the internet to publicise the killing of Neda Iranian police have set up a special unit to monitor political websites and fight internet crime. The head of the unit, Col Mehrdad Omidi, said it would target political “insults and the...