by Sam Razi | Mar 12, 2010 | Featured, General
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 10, 2010 By Kristin Deasy The poster advertising the opening of Europe’s largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential...
by Sam Razi | Mar 11, 2010 | Featured, General
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 11, 2010 In the wake of the UN Human Rights Council’s recent session on Iran, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda correspondent Javad Kouroshy asked Manfred Nowak, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, about his...
by Sam Razi | Mar 11, 2010 | Featured, General
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 11, 2010 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council stressed the role of people in governance and maintained that with the growth and spread of media, governments that do not have popular bases can not last long. ILNA...
by Sam Razi | Mar 11, 2010 | Featured, General, Opinion
(Crosscut) | March 11, 2010 What are we to do about the nuclear ambitions of an tyrannically run country, with an oppressive record of human rights violations? How about treating it as an sovereign state with the same rights as our country? By D. Parvaz Let’s...
by Sam Razi | Mar 11, 2010 | Featured, General
(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 11, 2010 Iranian Student Organization Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat called on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani to release Ahmad Zeidabadi, Secretary-General of their organization. In their letter they maintain that it is...