Safarali Qulizade (Safar Ayaz), November 29, 2024 The events of December 12, 1946, mark a pivotal moment in the history of South Azerbaijan, remembered as “21 Azer.” This date signifies not only a key chapter in the region’s political and cultural struggle but also sheds light on the complex interplay of geopolitical, social, and nationalistic […]
Honorable Members of the European Parliament MEP Esther de LANGE MEP Isabella ADINOLFI MEP Gianna GANCIA MEP Gabriel MATO MEP Alessandra MUSSOLINI MEP Francesca PEPPUCCI MEP Lucia VUOLO MEP Stefania ZAMBELLI MEP Javier ZARZALEJOS The letter you wrote to the High Representative of European Union for Foreign Affairs about the multifaceted discrimination and suppression […]
🔹Mr. Zelenskiy, the honorable president of Ukraine 🔹Your Excellency’s words regarding the involvement of the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the unfortunate aggression of Russia against Ukraine and the sending of weapons to kill the people of Ukraine and your request to the people of Iran to protest against the criminal […]
“درون هر مترقی یک توتالیتر است که فریاد بیرون آمدن است” – دیوید هوروویتز رنج اقوام ایران ظلم جمهوری اسلامی حد و مرزی ندارد. 31 مارس 2023 توسط Rachel Avraham اکنون که ما صحبت می کنیم، پس از اینکه مشخص شد حدود 7000 دختر در سراسر جمهوری اسلامی بین نوامبر 2022 تا مارس 2023 […]
“God may not forgive the state TV reporter who has turned to an interrogator and then a judge, and issued a verdict within two minutes that devastated a family,” the father of Aylar Haqqi, a 23-year-old victim of the security forces’ brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, said while standing next to his daughter’s grave. “People tell me […]
On the 100th day after the start of nationwide protests in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police, journalist and human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi sent a letter from inside Evin Prison, asking the world to pay attention to sexual assaults on women who have been detained during these […]
An Iranian court sentenced a 19-year-old protester to death on December 20 on the charge of “waging war against God,” at the end of a trial held online. Security forces arrested Ali Makan Davari during an October 10 anti-government rally in the northern city of Langarood. Davari was accused of “disruption of order, collusion, waging […]
Mr. N. describes the start of his sufferings in detention: “Somebody imitated the sound of a stun gun and shouted ‘faster.’ I took off my clothes. Four people were surrounding me. One of them had his hand on my head. They ordered me to sit down and to stand up and used flashlight on me. […]
The lawyer of Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, an anti-government Iranian protestor sentenced to death, says his client’s confessions have been obtained “under torture” and therefore have no legal validity. The lawyer, Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani, said on Twitter that he managed to meet Hosseini for the first time on December 18 in the prison in the northern […]
The head of the UN’s top human rights body has appointed the members of the recently established fact-finding mission on human rights abuses committed by Iranian authorities in their bloody crackdown on nationwide protests. The president of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Federico Villegas of Argentina, has picked Sara Hossain of Bangladesh, Shaheen Sardar Ali […]
Are you familiar with the mythology of the phoenix? A legendary bird born again in fire; a symbol of rebirth and renewal. When we speak about acid attacks in Iran, a litany of names tragically comes to mind. They are mostly the names of women, who for one reason or another were targeted by angry […]
Iranians wounded by the security forces during the ongoing nationwide protests avoid treatment in the country’s increasingly unsafe hospitals for fear of being detained, tortured, prosecuted or killed. The medics ready to brave the risks to help the injured are treating protesters in their offices, the demonstrators’ homes or elsewhere. Aida Rostami, 36, was one […]