by Sam Razi | May 10, 2010 | Featured, General, Human Rights, Must Read
This video shows Students at Shahid Beheshti University clashing with Basiji’s, pro-government volunteer militiamen. Students chant “Marg Bar Basiji!” (“Death to Basiji!”): View more videos of protests on May 10 at Shahid Beheshti and...
by Sam Razi | May 10, 2010 | Featured, General, Human Rights, Must Read
Yesterday, the Iranian government executed five Kurdish Iranians timed to intimidate and frighten people away from anticipated anti-government rallies on the anniversary of the disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in...
by Sam Razi | Apr 28, 2010 | Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Interviews, Must Read
On Friday, April 23, 2010, Dr. Shirin Ebadi appeared at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver to give a lecture on the appalling human rights situation in Iran since the Islamic Republic came into being in 1979 and since the disputed presidential election of 2009 that...
by Sam Razi | Apr 27, 2010 | Featured, General, Must Read
The following video from Mehdi Saharkhiz’s YouTube surfaced today, showing opposition candidate and Green Movement leader Mir Hossein Mousavi addressing a crowd during demonstrations following the disputed and controversial presidential election in Iran last...
by Sam Razi | Apr 24, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Human Rights, Must Read
Source: Khordaad88 | April 22, 2010 (Thanks Khordaad88 for the translation) Source (Persian): Jaras Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 In a meeting today with a group of religious-nationalist activists, Mousavi said: “To achieve our national interests and a desired...
by Sam Razi | Apr 23, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, Human Rights, Live, Must Read
This is a live-blogging report on the lecture with Nobel Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, in Vancouver on April 23, 2010. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom of this page upwards. NOTE: We will do our best to capture as much of the lecture...