July
14
2010
In view of the similarities , and the ever worsening situation of gross and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Iran today, to that of the South African gross violations of human rights ,before 1992, we therefore demand that the Credential Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations , in it’s meeting on 14 September 2010,act in the same manner, by rejecting the credentials of the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and thereby preventing them to occupy the seat of Iran at the United Nations.
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July
13
2010
In 1989 when ARG [Dr Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou] decided to go and meet his nemesis in Vienna, he may have been reckless. He may have made the controversial decision to go anyway, but he knew the risks because he had been publicly warned 10 years before that he was being condemned to death, while simply watching television.
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July
10
2010
July 2, 2010 – A two day event held in the Italian Parliament brought together Italian Senators, Members of Parliament, Iranian exiles, human rights defenders, civil society representatives and international experts to forge concrete proposals on how to consolidate the democratic transition in Iran to the betterment of all Iranian citizens including non-Persian nationalities who face ongoing discrimination and marginalisation from political processes.
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July
7
2010
6 Jul 2010 (Medya News) – Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand , founder and president of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison due to his human rights activities, his writings and most importantly establishing the non-governmental organization Kurdistan Human Rights Organization. He is spending four years of his 11 years prison term, and his final sentence and pardon was also rejected. On his fourth year in prison, I spoke to his daughter Tonya Kaboudvand. In an interview with Kaveh Qureshi for “Rooz” she criticizes activists and human rights defenders in his father’s neglected condition, and said: “Human rights activists and defenders have kept quite on father’s case and have forgotten him.”
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July
1
2010
This picture was taken in July 1st, 2003 celebrations in Canada's capital, Ottawa.
As one of the Millions of people who have come to call this place a home, I take the moment to cherish this July 1st, Canada Day, as a proud Kurdish Canadian.
As Canadians from all strides celebrate this historic day in our Canadian history, people, like me and my family and countless others, who have come here to start a new beginning, value this country and its day with a stronger conviction; this country not only has offered us, a fresh beginning, new opportunities, but also a peaceful home where we are as Canadian as those who have first settled here half a millennium ago. We enjoy all the rights and freedoms that we could never realize in our wild imagination in our home country.
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June
30
2010
Zeynab Jalalian, Held Incommunicado, Among 17 Kurds on Death Row
June 29, 2010
(New York) – The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt plans to execute Zeynab Jalalian and other Kurdish dissidents, Human Rights Watch said today. Jalalian is one of 17 such dissidents currently on death row in Iranian prisons.
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June
24
2010
22 Jun 2010 (Medya News): Iranians from all strides gathered for a week-end long conference to discuss the future of their country in Mclean, VA in June 19 and 20.
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June
8
2010
7 June 2010 – Medya News Editorial- This year, the Islamic regime in Iran commemorated the memory of the founder of the theocratic regime, Ayatollah Khomeini who died twenty one years ago, ten year following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
June
5
2010
“Why Turkey and its Islamic government play double standards, where being deeply troubled by difficulties faced by Muslim Gazans, while paying little or no attention to its Muslim Kurdish population within Turkey.”
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- Beyond Gasoline: Congress Targets Iran’s Access to Critical Energy Know-How (author unknown)
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Fouad Ajami : Iran and the ‘Freedom Recession’
In his piece in the Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami makes some good points: