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JURIST (Free subscription) | yesterday
[JURIST] Iranian officials covered up the sexual assault of detainees held after the disputed June 12 presidential election, Human Rights Watch (HRW) the rape and sexual assault of three protesters at the hands of Iranian security personnel, including one case which was accompanied by a medical examiner's report. HRW claims that officials at the Tehran hospital that treated a 27-year old activist for...
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Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
India's 21st-century war In an age of climate change and deepening inequality, the spreading Naxalite insurgency in India – not al-Qaeda – may show the world its future, writes Paul Rogers A YEAR on from the election of Barack Obama as United States president, the conflicts that dominated Washington's concern under his predecessor are still raging – and even increasing in intensity....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Iranian authorities thought to be holding 31-year-old as part of a crackdown on foreign reporters Iranian authorities are believed to be holding a Danish journalism student after he was arrested by the Iranian authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign reporters. Niels Krogsgaard, 31, was reported missing on Wednesday after attending a rally organised by the Iranian Government to mark the 30th...
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Reporters Without Borders is warning of worsening press freedom and treatment of detained journalists in Iran as well as more arrests in the past few days. Agence France-Presse correspondent Farhad Pouladi and Nafiseh Zareh Kohan, a journalist who writes for various pro-reform newspapers, were arrested in Tehran during demonstrations marking the 30th anniversary of the US embassy’s seizure. Hassin...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A Danish journalism student has been arrested in Iran after covering anti-government protests, unions say. The Danish Union of Journalists named the student as Niels Krogsgaard, 31. Wednesday's Tehran protests coincided with an official rally to mark 30 years since the storming of the US embassy during the 1979 Islamic revolution. A Canadian, a Japanese and an Iranian journalist are also being held...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge — unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison. Perhaps most surprising, the young...
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Shimshon 9 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Supporters of reformist candidate Hossein Mousavi continue to appeal the results of tenth presidential election which was held on 12 June, 2009 and reports of violence, arrests and attacks on opposition keep coming from Iran.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It was the fall of 1979, and Iranian militants had seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 53 Americans hostage. The late Roone Arledge , then president of ABC News, wanted extended network coverage. "Roone had decided a long time before," Ted Koppel tells TVNewser, "that any time a big news story [broke], ABC News was going to do a special broadcast at 11:30 at night. And one day,...
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the Dry Bones Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"All it takes . . ." is a reference to the often quoted and more often ignored piece of folk wisdom "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". * * * Below is an editorial from yesterday's (Nov.5, 09) Wall Street Journal about Obama's response to the pro-Democracy protests in Iranian cities: Obama on Tehran's Democrats: "We do not interfere in Iran's internal...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
According to witnesses and state media, Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas. Amateur footage emerged from Iran on Wednesday, purporting to show opposition supporters demonstrating in a central square of the capital, chanting their own slogans against the government crackdown on the opposition which followed the presidential election turmoil.
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random thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
And they're using officially sanctioned protests as cover to stage their own, "We're still here and we're still angry" protests, according to the BBC. The most recent round of protests, broken up by tear gas and batons, came during an officially sanctioned protest to mark the 30th anniversary of the Iranian seizure of the American embassy. Jon Leyne, BBC Tehran correspondent, gives this analysis...
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Las Vegas Gleaner (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The voters of Virginia and New Jersey have elected Republican governors, thereby nullifying the results of last year's presidential election. Health care reform is dead, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Ditto for climate change legislation, because let's...
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
BBC: Taking the capital out of a city Tehran is a sprawling metropolis at the foot of the Alborz mountain range. It is home to some 12 million people, and is the largest city in the Middle East. Not only is it the political and economic heart of the country, the city has a cosmopolitan air with its museums, art galleries, parks and universities. It has been Iran's capital since 1795. But now a powerful...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
sommelier \suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY\ , noun; To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder. Origin: Sommelier derives from French, from Old French, "officer in charge of provisions, pack-animal driver," alteration of sommerier, from sommier,"...
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Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Morning Star reports: "The Prime Minister has spoken to President Karzai to congratulate him on his re-election“ a No 10 Downing Street spokesman said. I wonder if this is the same Prime Minister who failed to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his election victory in Iran earlier this year? Unlike in Afghanistan where the 're-election' of US appointee Karzai was marked by widespread...
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