by Sadra | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
Zahra’s Paradise Written by Amir & Illustrated by Khalil Release Date: September 13, 2011 First Second Publications B&W Hard Cover Graphic Novel | 272 pages ISBN: 978-1-59643-642-8 $19.99 Over the weekend I had the pleasure of reading Zahra’s Paradise,...
by Sadra | Sep 16, 2011 | Blog
Somayeh Tohidlou, political activist and Tehran University Ph.D. student in Sociology, wrote in her blog yesterday that authorities at Evin Prison carried out her sentence of 50 lashes. The flogging took place at Evin Prison just as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took off for...
by Sadra | Sep 14, 2011 | Blog
Shargh Newspaper reported this morning (14 September 2011) that the release of American prisoners Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer is a result of mediation by the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. During a television interview on Tuesday, 13 September, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
by Sadra | Sep 14, 2011 | Blog
Iranian Government Ignores Calls to Cooperate With the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Questions to Ask Ahmadinejad (14 September 2011) Member states of the United Nations as well as the international media should focus on the ongoing human rights crisis...
by Sadra | Sep 14, 2011 | Blog
Last week an appeals court in the southern city of Shiraz upheld a one year prison sentence for Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani of the Protestant Christian group, the Church of Iran, and five other church members, Parviz Khalaj, Amin Afshar Manesh, Mehdi Forutan,...
