by Sadra | Oct 24, 2009 | Blog
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:45PM UC Berkeley, Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB), Room 2040 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156102049844 Learn How To Analyze and interpret the coverage of events (ie on Iran) Grab the media’s attention Present your message to...
by Sadra | Oct 23, 2009 | Blog
October 23, 2009 By MICHAEL SLACKMAN RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his...
by Sadra | Oct 23, 2009 | Blog
Below are pictures from October 22nd’s “Berkeley in Solidarity with Iran.” [tylr-slidr userID=”40049255@N05″ groupID=””]http://www.flickr.com/photos/united4iran/sets/72157622649625998/[/tylr-slidr] This powerful documentary...
by Sadra | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
-21 October 2009- Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to overturn a 15-year prison sentence imposed on an Iranian-American academic for his alleged part in the protests following the June presidential election. Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist...
by Sadra | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
By Christopher Dickey | Newsweek Web Exclusive Oct 22, 2009 For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari did not see the face of his interrogator. Bahari, 42, was...