December 2010
“Confessions of Prisoners not Valid”
The Financial Times reports that Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani has told his students that the confessions of prisoners are not valid in courts of law. “Confessions of prisoners have no validity, and if a judge uses confessions for issuing verdicts th
Iranian-Kurdish Law Student’s Execution Stayed
The execution of Habibollah Latifi has been stayed. His sister reports that many demonstrators showed up to protest the execution, “Security forces have threatened the demonstrators [and told them] to disperse, but [this]was not accepted by the people until th
Rising Prices Hurt in Iran
The Washington Post reports on the economic situation in Iran. Many complain of restrictions that prevent them from raising their own fees to address the effects of rising prices resulting from the end of subsidies. “I never heard the government give money to
Interview with Sister of Habibolah Latifi
Masih Alinejad’s interview with the sister of Iranian-Kurdish prisoner of conscience, Habibolah Latifi can be read over at EA WorldView. His sister reports, “My parents are elderly and I don’t dare give them the news regarding my brother’s execution, therefore
Urgent Request: Protest Upcoming Execution
Urgent Request: Protest Upcoming Execution: In a continuing pattern of oppression of minorities, the judiciary is preparing to execute Habibollah Latifi, an Iranian-Kurd. He has always denied the trumped up charges agains him. A letter-writing campaign has bee
High Prices Start to Hurt
…In a continuing pattern of restrictions on independent civil society, union truckers are told that they cannot raise prices for their customers or they will find themselves booted out of the union. The LA Times reports: “We were told by written notification t
Diverting Attention
In EA, Masih Alinejad writes of the stoning case of Sakineh Ahstiani: “Put bluntly, the Government is exploiting the Ashtiani case to divert attention from the deaths and imprisonments of young women and men who oppose the fraudulent outcome of Mahmoud Ahmadin
Occluded by the Nuclear Issue
James Miller opines on the reasons that human rights and other complex issues have taken a backseat to the nuclear issue in the Western media.
Statement in Support of Human Rights Lawyer
The statement in support of the unjustly detained human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, can be found here.