by Sam Razi | Sep 30, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
L.A. Times | October 1, 2010 Reporting Tehran and Beirut The two Americans still jailed in Iran on charges of espionage and trespassing won’t be tried for at least five more weeks, their lawyer told The Times on Thursday. Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal are due to...
by Sam Razi | Sep 30, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
CTV Toronto | September 30, 2010 The former wife of an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for his provocative writings says she’s stunned by the ruling. “It’s a tragedy. No one has ever gotten this kind of...
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...
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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...
by Sam Razi | Sep 27, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics, World
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/27/irans-interrupted-lives/ | September 27, 2010 Haleh Esfandiari Indeed—as a small photography exhibition about student repression in Iran at Georgetown Law School this month powerfully reminded us—hundreds of Iranian...
by Sam Razi | Sep 26, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, Human Rights, Must Read, Politics
Ottawa Citizen | September 25 Hossein Derakhshan is a writer. He is a Canadian-Iranian. He is in a jail cell in Iran, facing execution. This is intolerable. Derakhshan started one of the first blogs in the Persian language. Now 35, the “blogfather” is...
