by Sam Razi | Sep 30, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Politics
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | September 29, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari Iranian state-controlled television has accused Facebook and Twitter of being Iran’s “hidden enemies” and tools used by Western intelligence agencies in order to recruit new members and gather...
by Sam Razi | Sep 30, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Politics
Radio Zamaneh | September 29, 2010 The families of the three Iranian detainees who were killed under torture in Kahrizak Detention Centre announced that rather than calling for the execution of the two guards who have been sentenced to death in these crimes, they call...
by Sam Razi | Sep 29, 2010 | Featured, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, Video, World
DipNote | September 29, 2010 Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that imposes sanctions on Iranian officials determined to be responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses involving Iran. In a press briefing with Treasury Secretary Timothy...
by Sam Razi | Sep 28, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Politics, World
Associated Free Press (hosted by Google) | September 27, 2010 OTTAWA — A 19-year prison sentenced handed to a Canadian-Iranian credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran is “unacceptable and unjustifiable,” the Canadian government said Tuesday....
![CBC: Blogger [Hossein Derakhshan] sentenced in Iran to 19 years](https://irannewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Hossein-Derakhshan-railway-tunnel.jpg)
by Sam Razi | Sep 28, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
CBC | September 28, 2010 A Canadian-Iranian blogger has been sentenced in Tehran to 19 years in prison after being convicted of creating anti-government propaganda. Hossein Derakhshan was arrested in Tehran on Nov. 1, 2008. He was tried on charges of collaborating...
