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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:29 pm    Post subject: Attorney Zhreh Mizrahi Reply with quote

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KAMALFAR FREE!... Iranian Dissident Receives Refugee Status in Canada
http://shiro-khorshid-forever.blogspot.com/2007/03/kamalfar-free-iranian-dissident_2861.html



This is such a great news, so happy to hear it. Please click on the title of the article to read the original article off of Pajamas Media

Kamalfar will not be returned to Iran, as Russian authorities were threatening to do, but will receive refugee status in Canada.

PJM received a copy of the following email to Iranian-American filmmaker and activitist Ardeshir Arian from an attorney, Zohreh Mizrahi:

Dear Ardeshir:

I am very pleased to inform you, as promised earlier, that Canada finally issued the refugee status to Zahra and her children and that they will be leaving Moscow on Wednesday, March 14 with final destination, Vancouver on March 15 to resettle there.

I want to thank you for all your wonderful work, patience, and humanitarian efforts.

ZOHREH MIZRAHI, Esq.


Associated Press wrote:

Judge Awards $466 Million In Lawsuit Against Iran

Source Url:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010304694.html


Friday, January 4, 2008; Page A08

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 -- Iran must pay $466 million to the family of a Los Angeles man who was tortured and executed there a decade ago for spying, a federal court ruled.

The family of Siavash Bayani won by default in U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr.'s Dec. 28 ruling because Iran ignored the legal action and presented no defense. The family must try to collect from a nation that does not recognize the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.

Lawyer Zohreh Mizrahi, who represented the family, said Thursday that she is confident the plaintiffs will be able to collect by seeking Iranian assets frozen in the United States, which has an economic embargo with Iran.

An after-hours call to the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Washington was not answered.

Bayani was an officer in the Iranian air force before the 1979 revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He and his family sought U.S. asylum in 1984 after the Revolutionary Guard Corps began purging military officers.


Bayani became a naturalized U.S. citizen, but in 1995 he returned to Iran to care for his mother, who was terminally ill with leukemia. He was arrested five months later.

According to the lawsuit, Bayani was tortured in prison. Iranian officials contacted the family and offered to get Bayani released in exchange for money. Relatives paid $95,000, but Bayani was tried and hanged in 1997 for spying.


Globe and Mail wrote:

Free of airport limbo, Iranian embraces Canada
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Globe and Mail
16 March 2007
Free of airport limbo, Iranian embraces Canada

JONATHAN WOODWARD

VANCOUVER — After 10 months in a Moscow airport sleeping on cold floors, eating scraps from passengers and bathing in the departure lounge toilets, an Iranian refugee and her children finally landed in Canada Thursday.

Zahra Kamalfar collapsed with shock and happiness into the arms of her supporters, and a brother she hadn't seen in 13 years, mere moments after she descended an escalator into the arrivals area of the Vancouver International Airport.

“Canada, thank you so much,” Ms. Kamalfar, 47, said in stilted English, to an assemblage of news media and airport staff, before she stumbled to the floor, crying and shaking.

Her 18-year-old daughter, Anna Kamalfar, stood up to the microphones with her brother Davood, 13, in their mother's place, and said they looked forward to a better life in Canada than they had in Iran.

“I want a bright future for myself,” Anna said.

“I don't think about anything. I feel free now. I will see the sea, the sky, the sun. I say to everyone: Freedom is very important. Thank you, Canada.”

However, before the family's ordeal was over, the RCMP extended Ms. Kamalfar's legal limbo in airports when they stopped her for about an hour for allegedly smoking on the plane, an Air Canada flight via Toronto. An RCMP spokesman said charges were possible, but none had been laid.

The story of Zahra Kamalfar's journey to Canada spans two years, four countries, many legal appeals and a nearly interminable wait in the departure lounge of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.

Ms. Kamalfar and her husband, Iman, were Dervishes, members of a branch of Sufism that believes in mystical rituals. The Shah of Iran had granted them land. In 1979, when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah, the Kamalfar's politics and religion suddenly became unpopular.

In 1986, Mr. Kamalfar was arrested for handing out leaflets calling for the return of the Shah, and was imprisoned for two years. The family lay low, and Ms. Kamalfar ran a boutique selling women's clothes while raising their two children. But in 2001, they returned to passing out leaflets, protested against Iranian President Mohammed Khatami and the death of several university students, and converted to Christianity.

In 2004, Mr. and Ms. Kamalfar were arrested again. Ms. Kamalfar was violently interrogated for “collaborating” in anti-government activities, and she heard through fellow inmates that her husband was killed while in police custody.

The next year, Ms. Kamalfar arranged for a 48-hour-release from prison, and obtained false travel papers. She and the children fled overland to Turkey and booked a flight to Canada.

The flight took them to Moscow and then Frankfurt, where her travel papers were questioned. She was sent back to Moscow, and held at a detention facility for 13 months.

Ten months ago, that facility was shut down and dozens of people claiming refugee status were immediately deported. The European Court of Human Rights put a stay on her deportation order after an appeal by a U.S. lawyer.

Unable to return to Russia, and without a country that would accept her, Ms. Kamalfar and her children were stuck in the Moscow airport.

“Aeroflot [Russia's international airline] gave her vouchers, and they got what little they could out of the food kiosks and slept on the floor,” said Washington lawyer Eileen O'Connor. “They had to wash in the bathrooms. When we met them they had blankets, because the airport gets very cold in the winter.”

Ms. O'Connor and other lawyers made an appeal to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on the family's behalf.

“The hardest thing was to prove her story and get the UNHCR to listen,” lawyer Olga Anisimova said on the phone from Russia.

Communicating with Ms. Kamalfar was nearly impossible, Ms. Anisimova said. It wasn't until a Russian doctor heard of her case through the media and gave her a cellphone that she could receive calls from the outside world.

She wasn't supposed to have the cellphone, and had to be vigilant to avoid Russian officials. And people she believes were Iranian agents attempted to contact her.

But once her brother, who arrived in Canada as a refugee from Iran eight years ago, had talked to her on the phone, he got in touch with the Iranian Federation of Refugees, who called Ms. O'Connor's law firm.

Ms. O'Connor got in touch with Las Vegas lawyer Zohreh Mizrahi, who spoke Farsi and could interview Ms. Kamalfar and draft an appeal to the UNHCR.

On Dec. 21, she was granted refugee status. The families and the lawyers heard late last week that Canada had accepted the family.
“We are so happy,” said her brother, Nader Kamalfar, as he waited at the airport with supporters carrying signs and balloons. “All my sister wanted was to see the sun. We thank God this has ended this way.”
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:08 am    Post subject: Criminal Top Taazi Thugs In Iran to hang 30 for murder, othe Reply with quote

International Criminal Top Taazi Thugs and Islamic Mafia Regime Has No Rights to Excute Others In The Name Of Criminal Act and Law

Over the past 28 years the Criminal Top Taazi Thugs and Islamic Mafia regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit all of the above crimes, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.



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International Criminal Top Taazi Thugs Regime In Iran Plan to hang 30 for murder, other crimes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080726/wl_nm/iran_execution_dc_2

Iran plans to execute 30 people in the capital Tehran on Sunday for murder, drug smuggling and other crimes, newspapers reported on Saturday.

Police have arrested dozens of people in recent weeks in a new crackdown on "immoral behavior" in the Islamic Republic, whose human rights record is often criticized in the West.

Etemad-e Melli daily said 20 of those to be executed on Sunday were drug traffickers and 10 were murderers. It said many of them had committed more than one crime.

"Thirty people convicted of crimes such as murder, drug smuggling, disrupting public security, illegal relationships and stealing will be executed at dawn on Sunday," the daily quoted Tehran's prosecutor office as saying.

Iran usually carries out executions in prison, by hanging.

At least 10 people were hanged in the country in July. In September last year, 21 people were executed in one day, in two different locations.

Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's Sharia law, enforced since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Amnesty International in April listed Iran as the world's second most prolific executioner last year, with at least 317 people put to death, trailing only China which carried out 470 death sentences.

Iran rejects accusations it is violating human rights and accuses the West of double standards and hypocrisy.

(Editing by Catherine Evans)
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:57 am    Post subject: Another Mass Killing in Iran: An Affront to Human Dignity Reply with quote

foxnews wrote:

Another Mass Killing in Iran: An Affront to Human Dignity
Tuesday , July 29, 2008

By Alireza Jafarzadeh

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393882,00.html

With its usual unparalleled barbarity, the ayatollahs' regime marked the 20th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran with "the largest mass execution in years," according to eyewitness accounts and reports by human rights groups. On Sunday, July 27, 2008, at dawn, 29 people were hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the site of 30,000 political executions in a spate of a few months in summer of 1988.

Many of those executed on Sunday were dissidents arrested during last June's fuel uprisings in Iran. Tehran often describes as "thugs" the restive youths arrested by the State Security Force (SSF) for staging antigovernment protests and demonstrations. Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks. (Click here to watch a video of the State Security Force agents beating a young man in Tehran). Others are jailed or executed in public (Click here for images).

The European Union's French presidency strongly condemned the 29 hangings, adding, "The Iranian regime's action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity."

In recent weeks, news reports from Iran indicated that eight women and one man are waiting to be stoned to death. Their sentence defies the so-called moratorium on stoning announced in 2002 by the mullahs' Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. According to BBC World Service, at least "three people are reported to have been executed by stoning since then." In July 2007, the regime stoned to death Jafar Kiani in the northern Iranian city of Takestan.

The latest hangings are the most recent in a dramatic rise in executions in recent months. Dissident groups and international human rights organizations insist that Tehran regularly executes political activists as armed robbers and drug addicts. This new trend goes even further, apparently as part of a wider effort to quell an increasing disenchanted and enraged citizenry. Although Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tenure has seen a marked crackdown on every sector of society, the ayatollahs have failed to terrorize the opposition into submission.

Student activists, women, laborers, journalists, bloggers, ethnic and religious minorities and bus drivers (or the non-conformists as the regime calls them) , risk arrest, torture and execution. But such risks have not deterred them, further rankling a regime already beset by infighting and facing growing isolation abroad.

The French monthly Afrique Asie reported from Tehran that "scenes of resistance against suppression are increasing...Iran is lonely and abandoned internationally," while at home the regime is "faced with increased daily protests by students and workers. The fear of this volcano erupting is depriving the mullahs of a good night's sleep."

For all their populist claims, the mullahs lack the capacity and will to fulfill the Iranian people's legitimate social, economic and political demands. Well aware of this inherent weakness, they have built their regime on suppression at home and crisis-making abroad.

The driving force of the ayatollahs' nuclear weapons campaign and terrorism export — the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) — is first and foremost tasked with protecting the regime from Iran's democratic opposition. This overriding duty (as stipulated many times by its leadership) is inherent in the true translation of IRGC — "Guardians of the Islamic Revolution." In September, IRGC's top Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari stressed that the Corps' "main responsibility" was to fight against "internal threats."

Just last week, in a courageous rebuke to Ahmadinejad's claim that his nuclear policies have popular backing, the residents of the central city of Arak protested against Tehran's nuclear program. Arak is the site of a heavy-water reactor first exposed by Iran's main opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

A film clip of the Arak protest, provided by the resistance network in Iran, was broadcast over the weekend via the opposition's satellite television, Simaye Azadi (click to watch the video ). Outraged by an explosion at a petro-chemical factory, the demonstrators shouted "nuclear energy kills people," and "nuclear energy means money in the pocket of the Leader," referring to the mullahs' Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Given the magnitude and severity of the suppression, such rallies speak volumes about the strength and perseverance of the anti-regime democratic movement.

As Afrique Asie Monthly put it, "The Iranian rulers are very concerned and alarmed, not about an unfeasible foreign military attack, but because of the people's support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq. Today, MEK is highly capable of attracting the young people born and raised after the revolution."

The ayatollahs' fear of their enemies within — the Iranian people and their resistance movement — and the surge in popular protests present policy-makers on the both sides of the Atlantic with a clear choice while the ayatollahs are running out the clock on nuclear weapons as more centrifuges are being installed constantly.

Europe is beginning to show the desire to make a new choice by siding with the Iranian people as opposed to the ruling clerics. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which acts as the parliament-in-exile, was invited by Italian Parliamentarians to Rome last week. A majority (320 members), voiced support for her movement for democratic change in Iran. She was received at the Vatican and met with the mayor of Rome in the city's historic building where Ahmadinejad was rebuffed.



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Sources:

Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Gas Rationing Causes Riots in Iran



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Alireza Jafarzadeh is the author of The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave: February 2008).

Jafarzadeh has revealed Iran's terrorist network in Iraq and its terror training camps since 2003. He first disclosed the existence of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water facility in August 2002.

Until August 2003, Jafarzadeh acted for a dozen years as the chief congressional liaison and media spokesman for the U.S. representative office of Iran's parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Another Mass Killing in Iran: An Affront to Human Dignit Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
foxnews wrote:

Another Mass Killing in Iran: An Affront to Human Dignity
Tuesday , July 29, 2008

By Alireza Jafarzadeh

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393882,00.html

With its usual unparalleled barbarity, the ayatollahs' regime marked the 20th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran with "the largest mass execution in years," according to eyewitness accounts and reports by human rights groups. On Sunday, July 27, 2008, at dawn, 29 people were hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the site of 30,000 political executions in a spate of a few months in summer of 1988.

Many of those executed on Sunday were dissidents arrested during last June's fuel uprisings in Iran. Tehran often describes as "thugs" the restive youths arrested by the State Security Force (SSF) for staging antigovernment protests and demonstrations. Young people are often beaten, tortured and humiliated in public in order to intimidate the population and deter others from joining their ranks. (Click here to watch a video of the State Security Force agents beating a young man in Tehran). Others are jailed or executed in public (Click here for images).

The European Union's French presidency strongly condemned the 29 hangings, adding, "The Iranian regime's action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity."

In recent weeks, news reports from Iran indicated that eight women and one man are waiting to be stoned to death. Their sentence defies the so-called moratorium on stoning announced in 2002 by the mullahs' Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. According to BBC World Service, at least "three people are reported to have been executed by stoning since then." In July 2007, the regime stoned to death Jafar Kiani in the northern Iranian city of Takestan.

The latest hangings are the most recent in a dramatic rise in executions in recent months. Dissident groups and international human rights organizations insist that Tehran regularly executes political activists as armed robbers and drug addicts. This new trend goes even further, apparently as part of a wider effort to quell an increasing disenchanted and enraged citizenry. Although Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tenure has seen a marked crackdown on every sector of society, the ayatollahs have failed to terrorize the opposition into submission.

Student activists, women, laborers, journalists, bloggers, ethnic and religious minorities and bus drivers (or the non-conformists as the regime calls them) , risk arrest, torture and execution. But such risks have not deterred them, further rankling a regime already beset by infighting and facing growing isolation abroad.

The French monthly Afrique Asie reported from Tehran that "scenes of resistance against suppression are increasing...Iran is lonely and abandoned internationally," while at home the regime is "faced with increased daily protests by students and workers. The fear of this volcano erupting is depriving the mullahs of a good night's sleep."

For all their populist claims, the mullahs lack the capacity and will to fulfill the Iranian people's legitimate social, economic and political demands. Well aware of this inherent weakness, they have built their regime on suppression at home and crisis-making abroad.

The driving force of the ayatollahs' nuclear weapons campaign and terrorism export — the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) — is first and foremost tasked with protecting the regime from Iran's democratic opposition. This overriding duty (as stipulated many times by its leadership) is inherent in the true translation of IRGC — "Guardians of the Islamic Revolution." In September, IRGC's top Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari stressed that the Corps' "main responsibility" was to fight against "internal threats."

Just last week, in a courageous rebuke to Ahmadinejad's claim that his nuclear policies have popular backing, the residents of the central city of Arak protested against Tehran's nuclear program. Arak is the site of a heavy-water reactor first exposed by Iran's main opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

A film clip of the Arak protest, provided by the resistance network in Iran, was broadcast over the weekend via the opposition's satellite television, Simaye Azadi (click to watch the video ). Outraged by an explosion at a petro-chemical factory, the demonstrators shouted "nuclear energy kills people," and "nuclear energy means money in the pocket of the Leader," referring to the mullahs' Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Given the magnitude and severity of the suppression, such rallies speak volumes about the strength and perseverance of the anti-regime democratic movement.

As Afrique Asie Monthly put it, "The Iranian rulers are very concerned and alarmed, not about an unfeasible foreign military attack, but because of the people's support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq. Today, MEK is highly capable of attracting the young people born and raised after the revolution."

The ayatollahs' fear of their enemies within — the Iranian people and their resistance movement — and the surge in popular protests present policy-makers on the both sides of the Atlantic with a clear choice while the ayatollahs are running out the clock on nuclear weapons as more centrifuges are being installed constantly.

Europe is beginning to show the desire to make a new choice by siding with the Iranian people as opposed to the ruling clerics. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which acts as the parliament-in-exile, was invited by Italian Parliamentarians to Rome last week. A majority (320 members), voiced support for her movement for democratic change in Iran. She was received at the Vatican and met with the mayor of Rome in the city's historic building where Ahmadinejad was rebuffed.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Sources:

Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Gas Rationing Causes Riots in Iran



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Alireza Jafarzadeh is the author of The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (Palgrave: February 2008).

Jafarzadeh has revealed Iran's terrorist network in Iraq and its terror training camps since 2003. He first disclosed the existence of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water facility in August 2002.

Until August 2003, Jafarzadeh acted for a dozen years as the chief congressional liaison and media spokesman for the U.S. representative office of Iran's parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.


Unfortunately, I see Alireza Jafarzadeh, who has tried to promote a terrorist organization such as MKO (now under new name of National Council of Resistance of Iran) and its leaders as legitimate, is misleading & deceptive.
NCRI & its leaders cannot deceive Iranian people. Mr. Jafarzadeh & his ilk, are the very reason that MKO is still in power. Most of the MKO followers, including Drs, educated people, like Jafarzadeh, make monthly payment to MKO organization. That is one reason M & M (Maryam & Massoud Rajavi) can spend money and call themselves the "leaders of Iranian in exile"!!
If any other opposition group had as devoted memebers as MKO with sending money on a regular basis for the advancement of "their casue"! We would have been able to take Iran back from Taazis.
What is alarming to me, is the mindset of these so called educated people that are true followers and are willing to send money to M&M so they can call themselves the "leaders"!! It almost reminds me of Jebhe Meli and National Front and their "Roshanfekran" that sold out our country to bunch of Taazis.
A democratic change in Iran by MKO, a terrorist organization, is an oxymoron!!


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:48 pm    Post subject: Noose, torture chamber, bodies found at mosque Reply with quote

Peaceful Religion and Islam 101?

CNN wrote:

Noose, torture chamber, bodies found at mosque In Iraq



The Baghdad mosque is a grotesque scene. Blood is on the walls and a noose dangles from the ceiling. "Here is a chain we found tied to an old man's body," an official says. A father mourns the loss of his son: "His hands and legs were amputated and his head was decapitated." full story

Must Watch Video : Go inside the torture chamber

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Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.mosque/index.html

Chain wrapped around 'old man's body' found in mosqueStory Highlights
Iraqi authorities discover 27 bodies at mosque and find torture room

"Here is a chain we found tied to an old man's body," official says

Dad of 25-year-old: "His hands, legs were amputated and his head was decapitated"

Residents say militia has left mosque, but still intimidates them


Due to the fact that the US, EU, UN and Free World leaders have not applied and ignored the following rules:
secular democracy,
Human Rights,
and Free Society rules in their everyday decision making process for both domestic and international policies therefore today the world is facing bigger danger than 30 years ago…. Over 30 years ago Carter, EU3 and Oil Companies promoted Islam and religion as alternative to secular governments and Communism.
Hollywood with Saudi Arabia Oil money played important role in promoting Messenger of Mohammad, Messenger of God (retitled The Message for U.S. release) is a 1977 film chronicling the life and times of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Released in both the Arabic language and the English language. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad,_Messenger_of_God_(film)

Video Clip Of Muhammad, Messenger of God - The Message – Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7wRcQcD5k
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:02 am    Post subject: Video Clip Iranian political prisoners talk Reply with quote

Video Clip Iranian political prisoners talk about their horrifying experiences in prison

An important work in 5 parts below, shocking and heartbreaking.


http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/blindfolded-witnesses
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Help Behnam Zaare

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:01 pm    Post subject: Iran Accused of Executing Juveniles in Violation of Internat Reply with quote

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote:

Iran Accused of Executing Juveniles in Violation of International Law
By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
02 September 2008

Source:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-02-voa43.cfm

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights accuses the government of Iran of violating international law by executing juveniles. The agency says it is very concerned about the recent executions of two juvenile offenders and about the imminent risk of execution facing two other young people. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from OHCHR headquarters in Geneva.

The U.N. Human Rights Office says Reza Hedjazi is believed to have been executed on August 19 and Behnam Zaare a week later on August 26. It says these young people are reported to have been 15 and 16 years old when they committed their crimes.

Human Rights Watch says both Hedjazi and Zaare were convicted of murder several years ago and that Zaare was 19 when he was executed last month and Hedjazi about 20.

U.N. Human Rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, says these executions appear to be in clear violation of international law, which prohibits the death penalty for juvenile offenders.

"Iran's legal obligation not to impose the death penalty for juveniles was assumed voluntarily when it ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by people below the age of 18," he said.

Colville says Iran is one of very few countries in the world that still execute juveniles. He says most countries have abolished the death penalty for young offenders or have put a moratorium on this practice.

He says U.N. human rights officials are afraid the Iranian government soon will go ahead with the execution of two other juvenile offenders.

He says his office is urging Iran to comply with its international human rights obligations and to stay the executions. He says it also should refrain from imposing the death penalty for juvenile offenders in the future.

"OHCHR [the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights] is also concerned over reports of a recent increase in the number of executions in Iran in general," said Colville. "On the 27th of July, for example, 29 executions are reported to have taken place. A month later, on the 28th of August, another five people, including a woman, were reported to have been executed. In all, more than 220 people, including six juvenile offenders, are believed to have been executed this year in Iran already."

Colville says juveniles in Iran face the death penalty for murder, rape and drug trafficking. He says Iran is bucking the global trend, which is heading toward the abolition of capital punishment.

Besides Iran, the United States, China, Congo and Pakistan have put juvenile offenders to death this decade, according to Human Rights Watch. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished executions of offenders for crimes committed as juveniles.
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پيام شاھزاده رضا پھلوی
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اعدام زندانيان سياسی
ھشتم شھريور ماه ١٣٨٧
ھم ميھنان عزيزم،
با نگرشی به کارنامۀ سياه و سھمناک کشتار در جمھوری اسلامی از سال ١٣۵٧ تا کنون، ھر برگی
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جرم تمامی اين جانباختگان صرفنظر از ايده و مرام سياسی آنان، در نھايت معصوميت، پای بندی به
اصل آزادی عقيده و بيان و ابراز آزادنۀ اعتقادات و آرمانھايشان بوده است.
جلادان رژيم دستور دارند که دگرانديشان دربند را يا به ترک عقيده وادار کنند و يا بکشند و در
گورستان ھای بی نام و نشان به خاک بسپارند.
دھم شھريور ماه تنھا يادآور کشتار بی رحمانۀ تاريخی نيست، بلکه حکايت از مقاومت قھرمانانه و
رشادت آميز قربانيان آن دارد. آنھا با پذيرش مرگ بجای تسليم در برابر استبداد، نقاب از چھرۀ
اھريمنی رژيم برگرفتند و ماھيت ضد ايرانی و واپسگرای آنرا برملا ساختند.
اکنون بر ما ايرانيان است که ھمواره ياد تمامی اين فرزندان جانباخته و شايستۀ ايران را با ھر باور
و انديشه ای گرامی بداريم و با تلاشی ھمبسته و پيوسته در راه رھايی ميھن، روح پاکشان را شاد و
خانواده ھايشان را مفتخر و سربلند نمائيم.
خداوند نگھدار ايران باد
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Iran Condemned for Surge of Youth Hangings

Times Online
Michael Theodoulou
Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Iran, the world’s most prolific executioner after China, has hanged a woman and four men for murder in defiance of mounting criticism from human rights groups.

One of those executed in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison had killed a five-year-old boy while robbing his home. The woman was put to death for killing her husband after discovering he wanted to marry another woman, a government daily reported today.

Yesterday's hangings brought to 232 the number executions in Iran this year, compared to 317 in 2007, according to Amnesty International figures. China, a far more populous country, carried out 407 death sentences last year.

Human rights groups and European governments have criticised Iran for an increase in the number of hangings since authorities launched a clampdown on “immoral behaviour” in July.

Of particular concern is the number of youths facing execution for crimes they committed as children which has reached “crisis levels”, Amnesty International told The Times. There are “at least 132 juvenile offenders known to be on death row… although the true number could be much higher,” the organisation said.

Human rights groups accuse Iran of resorting excessively to the death penalty while Tehran counters that it is an effective deterrent used only after a thorough judicial process.

Iran’s national police chief, Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam, claimed at the weekend that the number of violent crimes, including murder, kidnap and armed robbery, had fallen by 50 per cent over the past two years.

Much crime is drug-related as Iran battles heavily-armed traffickers from neighbouring Afghanistan, Europe’s main supplier of heroin. Youth unemployment is another factor: many emigrate but some who cannot turn to drugs and crime.

The harsh political climate fostered under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's hardline president, also contributes to the high execution rate, analysts said.

“He’s a throwback to the early days of the (1979) Islamic Revolution and so you get the hardline social attitudes that go with the enforcement of Sharia law,” Michael Axworthy, an Iran analyst at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University, told The Times.

Capital offences in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking, adultery, treason and espionage.

Tehran is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which are international treaties outlawing the execution of those under 18 at the time of their crime. Iran has, however, attempted to circumvent its obligations by keeping minors on death row until they reach 18 and then executing them afterwards.

Behnam Zarei, a 19-year-old Iranian, was hanged in the south-western city of Shiraz on Tuesday after he had spent more than three years on death row for killing a fellow teenager.

Zarei, who was 15 at the time of his crime, had told the court the killing had been an accident. He was hanged “without the knowledge of his lawyer and family”, Etemad-e-Melli, an Iranian daily newspaper said.

He was the second youth in days to be hanged for an offence he committed as a child and the sixth such execution this year.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based organisation, said Iran “leads the world in executing juvenile offenders”. At least 26 have been hanged since 2005, it added. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender this year.

HRW said: “Everywhere else, countries are moving to end this abhorrent practice, but in Iran the numbers of death sentences seems to be increasing.”

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:03 am    Post subject: Helmsley Left Dogs Billions in Her Will Reply with quote

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This Happens When DOLPHINS, Women Righs, Animal Rights, Mother Earth, Human Rights, Global Warming, Slavery ...... Has No Priorities


New York Times wrote:

Helmsley Left Dogs Billions in Her Will

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02gift.html



Sure, the hotelier and real estate magnate Leona Helmsley left $12 million in her will to her dog, Trouble. But that, it turns out, is nothing much compared with what other dogs may receive from the charitable trust of Mrs. Helmsley, who died last August.


Leona Helmsley’s Dog Loses All but $2 Million (June 17, 2008)
Multimillionaire Dog Can’t Buy Herself a Friend (September 3, 2007)
Leona Helmsley, Hotel ‘Queen,’ Is Dead at 87 (August 21, 2007) Readers' Comments
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Her instructions, specified in a two-page “mission statement,” are that the entire trust, valued at $5 billion to $8 billion and amounting to virtually all her estate, be used for the care and welfare of dogs, according to two people who have seen the document and who described it on condition of anonymity.
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Two doctors treating Aids in Iran were arrested.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A savage treatment of a young man by Iranian Gestapo.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:43 pm    Post subject: Watch Video "A Few Simple Shots" Reply with quote

joseph akrami wrote:

Watch Video "A Few Simple Shots"

Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran


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joseph akrami wrote:

نقض حقوق بشر در "چند نمای ساده"

«چند نمای ساده»، مستندی درباره ی نقض حقوق بشر در ایران، فیلمی است مستقل از یوسف اکرمی،
يوسف اکرمی پشت دوربين
فیمساز ایرانی ساکن کانادا. اکرمی از بنیانگذاران «سینمای معترض ایران» و از منتقدین رژیم جمهوری اسلامی است که سالها پیش ایران را ترک کرده است.



از سيامک دهقانپور:

مستند ۸۵ دقیقه ای یوسف اکرمی مجموعه ای ست از روایات دست اول ایرانیانی که برای باورهایشان مورد آزار جسمی و روحی قرار گرفته اند.


مينو همیلی
فیلم با سفری مکاشفه وار به اعماق دردهای زندانیان سیاسی و سکوت و اشک هایشان؛ از طریق روایت مینو همیلی، شخصیت محوری فیلم که خود را قربانی آپارتاید جنسی حکومت جمهوری اسلامی می داند، به پیش می رود.

فیلم طیف وسیعی از مشکلات از جمله نقض حقوق اقلیت های مذهبی و قومی، ترور دگر اندیشان، سرکوب زنان، اعدام مخالفان سیاسی در خارج از کشور، سنگسار، قطع اعضای بدن، نقض حقوق ابتدایی شهروندی، و حتی رنج های کودکان را در برمی گیرد.

در یکی از فصول تکان دهنده ی فیلم سولماز سلطانخواه دختری که از خردسالی در سوئد بزرگ شده در بغض و گریه خاطره ای را از دستگیری مادرش در ایران تعریف می کند. سپس رو به دوربین به زبان سوئدی فریاد می زند: «مادر صدای مرا می شنوی؟ مادر دوستت دارم. می خواهم ببینمت.» اما، مادر او سالها پیش اعدام شده است.

فیلمساز ایرانی ساکن کانادا می کوشد نشان دهد مخالفت با حکومت به مثابه ی مخالفت با اسلام تلقی می شود. سازمان ملل متحد در نوامبر ۲۰۰۵ با تصویب قطعنامه ای، برای دومین سال پیاپی، رفتار رژیم جمهوری اسلامی را با مردم در ایران رقت آور خواند. وزارت خارجه ی آمریکا نیز در گزارش جدید سالیانه اش در باره ی وضعیت حقوق بشر می گوید جمهوری اسلامی حق مردم ایران برای تغییر حکومت را بشدت محدود کرده است.

اکرمی رهبران مذهبی کشور که هیچ مخالفتی را برنمی تابند به باد انتقاد می گیرد. در کنار سوژه های فیلم
يوسف اکرمی
که ایرانیان پناهجوی ساکن کانادا هستند در بخش هایی گروههای مدافع حقوق بشر در کانادا، نمایندگان سازمان ملل متحد، و وکلای مهاجرت چون مری تتهم دیده می شوند که سیستم دادگاههای انقلاب را ناقض حقوق متهم می دانند.

بنا بر گزارش امسال دیده بان حقوق بشر جمهوری اسلامی گروه کثیری از مردم را برای بیان مسالمت آمیز عقایدشان مورد شکنجه و آزار قرار داده است. یوسف اکرمی می گوید چهره های فیلمش، فعالان اپوزیسیون، روزنامه نگاران، و دانشجویان، نمایندگانی از این گروهها هستند.

به گزارش دیده بان حقوق بشر پس از موج سرکوب مطبوعات در سال ۱۳۷۸ چند نشریه ی مستقل باقی مانده نیز دست به خودسانسوری می زنند. وزارت خارجه ی آمریکا از منتقدان سرسخت آزار و تعقیب اقلیت های قومی در ایران است.

موریس کاپیتورن، نماینده ی ویژه ی سازمان ملل در امر رسیدگی به وضعیت حقوق بشر در ایران، بخش عمده ی موارد نقض حقوق بشر را ناشی از برسمیت نشناختن اقلیت ها می داند. او با اشاره به سیل فرار
موريس کاپيتورن
پناهجویان از ایران می گوید تنها در فاصله ی سال ۱۹۹۹ تا سال ۲۰۰۰ شمار ایرانیان در مرزهای اروپا از دوازده هزار به بیست و هفت هزار تن رسید.

اکرمی تنها راه توقف نقض حقوق بشر را تغییر رژیم می داند. به گفته ی یوسف اکرمی دفتر نمایندگی ایران در سازمان ملل متحد از پاسخگویی به بسیاری از پرسش های مطرح در فیلم «چند نمای ساده» سرباز زده است.

«چند نمای ساده» از نورپردازی و ترکیب بندی تصویری خوب یوسف اکرمی برخوردار است و موسیقی آرون تسانگ بار حسی خاصی به تدوین هوشمندانه ی بهمن کیباخی بخشیده است.

فیلم با تصاویر تظاهرات ضد رژیم در کشورهای خارجی به پایان می رسد و مخاطب را با سایه ی ترس از نفوذ ماموران مخفی رژیم در میان ایرانیان خارج از کشور رها می کند.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:04 pm    Post subject: Music Video Try Not To Cry...Free Iran Reply with quote

Music Video Try Not To Cry...Free Iran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqRNWb73LQ

joseph akrami wrote:

Watch Video "A Few Simple Shots"

Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran


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Outlandish wrote:

Try Not to Cry Lyrics
by Outlandish

album:

You, you’re not aware
That we’re aware
Of your despair
Don’t show your tears
To your oppressor
Don’t show your tears

CHORUS:
Try not to cry little one
You’re not alone
I’ll stand by you
Try not to cry little one
My heart is your stone
I’ll throw with you

Isam:
‘Ayn Jalut where David slew Goliath
This very same place that we be at
Passing through the sands of times
This land’s been the victim of countless crimes
From Crusaders and Mongols
to the present aggression
Then the Franks, now even a crueller oppression
If these walls could speak,
imagine what would they say

For me in this path that I walk on
there's only one way
Bullets may kill, bones may break
Still I throw stones like David before me and I say

CHORUS

You, you’re not aware
That we’re aware
Of your despair
Your nightmares will end
This I promise, I promise

CHORUS

Lenny:
No llores, no pierdas la fe
La sed la calma el que haze
Agua de la arena
Y tu que te levantas con orgullo entre las piedras
Haz hecho mares de este polvo
Don’t cry, don’t lose faith
The one who made water come out of the sand
Is the one who quenches the thirst
And you who rise proud from between the stones
Have made oceans from this dust

Waqas:
I throw stones at my eyes
’cause for way too long they’ve been dry
Plus they see what they shouldn’t from oppressed babies to thighs
I throw stones at my tongue
’cause it should really keep its peace
I throw stones at my feet
’cause they stray and lead to defeat
A couple of big ones at my heart
’cause the thing is freezing cold
But my nafs is still alive
and kicking unstoppable and on a roll
I throw bricks at the devil so I’ll be sure to hit him
But first at the man in the mirror
so I can chase out the venom

Isam:
Hmm, a little boy shot in the head
Just another kid sent out to get some bread
Not the first murder nor the last
Again and again a repetition of the past
Since the very first day same story
Young ones, old ones, some glory
How can it be, has the whole world turned blind?
Or is it just ’cause it’s only affecting my kind?!
If these walls could speak,
imagine what would they say
For me in this path that I walk on
there’s only one way
Bullets may kill, bones may break
Still I throw stones like David before me and I say

CHORUS

lyrics: Isam Bachiri, Waqas Qadri, R. Lenny Martinez, Sami Yusuf, Bara Kherigi & Omar Shah

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