Category Archive: Articles, News
NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF SAUDI-LED COALITION ATTACKS ON YEMEN
Ottawa—20 August 2018 The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen, and for the creation of an international investigative committee into the August 9 Saudi and Emirates-led coalition air attacks on Yemeni civilians. We are deeply dismayed by the air-strike, which hit a […]
CALL FOR RELEASE OF DR. SHAHIDUL ALAM AND STUDENTS IN BANGLADESH
AUGUST 20, 2018 Two weeks ago in Bangladesh, high school students came out in the streets to register their spontaneous protest about the death of two school-going students caused by speeding buses. They demanded their right to road safety, rule of law and justice. Credible reports in the global print and electronic media reported that […]
Judiciary’s Intensifying Crackdown on Defense Attorneys in Iran Must End
Center for Human Rights in Iran August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to represent their clients and jailed them for attempting to do so, violates Iran’s domestic laws and international obligations and must end, the Center for Human Rights in […]
HRW: Iran: Activists’ Families Facing Harassment
Human Rights Watch, August 9 Authorities Using State TV to Discredit Journalists, Dissenters (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should immediately stop harassing and threatening the families of activists and journalists as a means to silence dissent and criticism, three rights organizations said today. On July 27, Iranian state TV’s “20:30” program featured an interview with Mina Alinejad, […]
Amnesty: Release all individuals arrested solely for demonstrating peacefully and investigate killing of protester
Amnesty International 8 August 2018 Following a wave of mass arrests in response to largely peaceful protests across Iran over the past week, Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to release any individual held solely for peacefully taking part in them. The authorities must also conduct a prompt, impartial and independent investigation into […]
We need to have a civil response to the Iranian state media
The religious tyranny has sunk lower by moving from broadcasting political-security confessions to the dance and singing confessions. And the judiciary and the governmental so-called national media as expressions of religious tyranny deserve to be boycotted nationally. I detest a religion that, separates a mother from her breastfeeding child for removing her head cover and […]
Instant verbal divorce rips families apart in Iran’s Kurdish region
Leila Alikarami July 2, 2018 Almonitor Rozhan thought that she was in a happy and loving marriage — until her husband divorced her through an archaic Islamic practice that she was scarcely aware of. Rozhan, 30, lived with her husband, Shaho, 41, and their two small children in Mariwan, a border town in the […]
AMEWS Letter on Arrests of Iranian Women Activists
July 1, 2018 The Human Rights Task Force of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS), an affiliate of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), stands in solidarity with Iranian women political prisoners and all those indicted for opposing the compulsory hijab, now known collectively as ‘Girls of Revolution Street.’ Among them are well known human rights activists including Vida Movahed, […]
Almonitor: Iran-Iraq War continues to claim lives
Leila Alikarami April 4, 2018 Mansur Moradi began panicking as blood poured from both his legs after an unexpected explosion. Stranded in a minefield in western Iran, any movement he made could trigger yet another blast. The mountainous region is covered with millions of anti-personnel landmines laid during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Ultimately, the 36-year-old survived, […]
