Showing posts with label Hassan Rouhani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hassan Rouhani. Show all posts
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Monday, June 29, 2015
IRAN- Revolutionary Guards target Internet activists
Reporters Without
Borders reiterates its condemnation of the Iranian regime’s persecution of
journalists and bloggers after a wave of arrests of Internet users in recent
days as a result of Revolutionary Guard monitoring of online social networks.
…The victims of the latest Revolutionary
Guard-orchestrated round-up include Mahmud Moussavifar and Shayan AkbarPour,
two Internet activists who ran the Rahian Facebook page and a blog called Rahi,
which cannot currently be accessed
After plainclothes men arrested them at their Tehran home on 31 May, their
families reported them missing because they still do not know why they were
arrested or where they were taken.
In the two years since the moderate conservative Hassan Rouhani was
installed as president in June 2013, around 100 Internet activists have been
arrested and given long jail terms, in most cases on information provided by
the Revolutionary Guards.
This persecution of news and information providers is just the
continuation of the unprecedented crackdown that began immediately after
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection in June 2009, when at least
300 journalists and Internet activists were arrested arbitrarily, tortured and
sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
Several journalists and Internet activists who were convicted in 2009 and
2010 by rigged revolutionary courts have since been released on completing
their sentences but many others are still in prison, where they are often
subjected to appalling conditions.
They include Said Razavi Faghih, Saraj Mirdamadi, Masoud Bastani, Reza
Entesari, Said Madani, Said Matinpour and Alireza Rajai. Unfortunately there
has been no improvement in the inhuman treatment reserved for prisoners of
conscience in Iran, especially in Tehran’s Evin prison and in Raja’i Shahr
prison.
…One of them, Shirazi, managed to flee the country after being released
provisionally and has described the terrifying experience of being held in
Section 2A and pressured by interrogators. Her account constitutes yet further
hard evidence of the systematic mistreatment of detainees in Iran by security
and judicial officials.
Aged 31, Shahi Savandi Shirazi, was transferred to Evin prison’s Section
2A after her arrest by Revolutionary Guards in January 2013 in the southeastern
city of Kerman.
“The nightmare began as soon as I arrived,” she told Reporters Without
Borders. “Locked up in a very small cell, I could hear the cries of a prisoner
being interrogated. I trembled all the time during the first few weeks and
couldn’t even hold a pen in my hand (...)
“They knew everything about my online chats and my emails. All my online
correspondence had been intercepted. Several of my friends had been arrested a
few months before me and I now realized I’d been under close surveillance since
then. The interrogators asked us to write about each other. They didn’t just
want us to confess to the crimes of which were accused. They also wanted to
know all about our personal relations and whether we’d had immoral relations.
During interrogation, they made sexist jokes to intimidate us. Once they even
threatened me with rape and simulated doing it (...)
“All these confessions were used to incriminate us when our trial finally
got under way before Mohammad Moghiseh, the president of the 28th chamber of
the Tehran revolutionary court (...) After my provisional release pending the
appeal court’s ruling, my husband, with whom relations were not simple,
questioned what had happened in prison and didn’t want us to continue living
together.
“So I returned to my family’s home in Kerman. But the insulting and
contemptuous phone calls continued. The interrogators kept calling me in order
to threaten me or to summon me to Tehran for further interrogation (...) Under
pressure, I finally decided to leave my country.”
Saturday, June 20, 2015
IRAN- Iran’s Global Image Mostly Negative
As the June 30
deadline for negotiations over its nuclear program approaches, a new Pew
Research Center poll finds that attitudes toward Iran are mostly negative
worldwide. Majorities or pluralities in 31 of 40 countries surveyed hold an
unfavorable opinion of the Islamic Republic. And in several Muslim-majority
countries in the Middle East and Asia, ratings have declined considerably in
recent years.
June also marks the second anniversary of the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani , who generally receives low marks across the Middle Eastern nations polled.
These are among the key findings of a new survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in 40 countries among 45,435 respondents from March 25 to May 27, 2015.
Low Marks for Iran in Middle East, Other Regions
Iran is viewed negatively by most nations surveyed, with a global median of 58% saying they have an unfavorable opinion of the country that borders Afghanistan in the east and Iraq in the west.
June also marks the second anniversary of the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani , who generally receives low marks across the Middle Eastern nations polled.
These are among the key findings of a new survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in 40 countries among 45,435 respondents from March 25 to May 27, 2015.
Low Marks for Iran in Middle East, Other Regions
Iran is viewed negatively by most nations surveyed, with a global median of 58% saying they have an unfavorable opinion of the country that borders Afghanistan in the east and Iraq in the west.
Monday, May 18, 2015
IRAN- Tunne Kelam: Stop attacks by the Iranian Government against humanitarian
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| Tunne Kelam |
When in 2013 the new President of Iran Hassan Rouhani
was elected, he promised that he would stop the political oppression and will
restore civil freedoms and rights to all ethnic and religious groups. Sadly,
during the following almost two years, the opposite has taken place. Clamping
down on civilians and minorities that are trying to retain their identity and
dignity, has seen a dramatic increase. As for the executions, Iran notoriously
ranks among the three leading countries of the world. The Government-sponsored policy
of violent intolerance has reached a point that the regime has begun to shut
down even charity organisations which provide help for the needy and sick
co-citizens.
The past few weeks have witnessed closing down of the medical charity Reza
Aid Foundation. Aided by members of Gonabadi dervishes, the Reza Aid Foundation
has been operational for 20 years, serving the poorest and neediest part of
society.......
Iran: Smuggling of goods increases
Since Hassan Rouhani became the president of the
clerical regime, import of goods smuggled into the country, compared to
official imports, has increased dramatically.
This increase is a telling indicator that proves the fact that the regime
has lost control of the country's economic situation more than ever.
Habibullah Haghighi, the head of "Headquarters of fighting smuggling
of goods and currency" has said that while the total official import
imports to the country was 50 billion dollars in 2014, imports of smuggled and
non-customs goods reached 40% of this figure and amounted to about 20 billion
dollars.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
IRAN- Majority of Iranians have to migrate if water crisis persists, official says
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| Karon river |
If the water shortage crisis in the country persists, around
70% of Iranians or a population close to 50 million will have
to leave to survive, a deputy of Hassan Rouhani says.
Isa Kalantari referred to the deteriorating condition of water
shortage in the country and the weak management and said:
“The present water crisis in Iran began some 10 years ago.
By using around 97% of its surface water almost all rivers
have dried up.”
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