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Ahead of Iranian presidential election, arrests and restrictions on Internet access
In Iran, tensions have risen ahead of next week’s presidential election. A human rights group says several campaign staffers and…
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Why Iranian Women Can’t Have Any of It
Originally published at http://opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/why-iranian-women-cant-have-any-of-it/ In recent weeks, the political theater of women registering as presidential candidates in the Islamic Republic of Iran, followed…
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IHRDC on Al Jazeera Stream
Iranian web users are reporting slow internet speeds, difficulties accessing emails and faulty proxy servers in the lead up to…
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How European taxpayers are fueling executions in Iran
This is a guest post by Gissou Nia, executive director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, in response to our May…
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Analysis: al-Qaeda inside Iran
Originally published at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gissou-nia/alqaedain-iran-a-fivepoin_b_3143058.html As Canadian authorities announced on Monday that they had thwarted a terrorist attack by two foreign nationals with…
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Letter from the Paris Bar association in support of Iranian lawyers
(May 8, 2013) – As part of a campaign to support Iran’s independent legal profession in calling for the cancellation…
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The Fifth Anniversary of the Incarceration of Seven Baha’i Leaders in Iran
Originally published at: http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2013/05/06/the-fifth-anniversary-of-the-incarceration-of-seven-bahai-leaders-in-iran/ To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of seven Baha’i Leaders in Iran, on Monday, May…
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IHRDC: Ahwazi Arabs Subjected to Discrimination in Iran
Originally published at: http://www.shahrvand.com/archives/38128 Iran is home to many different ethnic minorities, including Azeris, Kurds, Baluch and others. One minority that…
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Shahrvand: In memory of Marjan Ahouraee, an Iranian transsexual refugee
In a video interview conducted by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center a few days after Marjan’s death, “Sayeh”—Marjan’s close…
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Iranian journalists arrested in raids
Experts and journalists have suggested the crackdown is an indication of political infighting and fear of foreign influence and infiltration
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