Sunday, March 1, 2015

DEVELOPINGSTORY: The chant of "Political prisoners must be freed" echoed inTehran

Tehran teachers demonstration

While more than 6,000 teachers took part in a gathering in front of the parliament in Tehran to join and express solidarity with the nationwide teachers’ demonstration, more than 20 other cities in the country were shaken by the chants of 'freedom for political prisoners' and 'freedom for imprisoned teachers.'
The slogans in the teachers’ demonstration included:
'Free teachers activists',
'Free political prisoners',

Abbas Yazdanpanah

A UAE court has sentenced six Iranians, three of them in absentia, to life imprisonment for kidnapping an Iranian-British businessman who went missing in Dubai in 2013, according to local media in Dubai.

DEVELOPING STORY: Teachers’ protest acrossIranian cities

Protest of Iranian teachers across the country

Teachers’ protests across Iranian cities started this morning. Thousands of teachers and members of educational establishments in different cities across the country took to the streets today, Sunday demanding their economic and working rights.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Muslim forum on ’terrorism’ seekseducation reform

Al-Azhar mosque, one of the oldest Islamic universities, in the old city of Cairo, Egypt

AFP - 25 February 2015 - A counter-terrorism conference attended by senior Muslim scholars from around the world on Wednesday called for education reform to tackle religious extremism.
Participants at the meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca urged Muslim leaders to review the religious messages in education, 'to achieve a more moderate approach.'

UN: unrestrictedaccess to medical services for Iranian dissidents in Iraq

The conference in Geneva to support Camp Liberty residents in Iraq

The conference on the United Nations obligations and assisting Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, was held in Geneva Switzerland in United Nation’s Palais des Nations on Friday, 20th February 2015. The conference was held under the auspices of France Libertes-Foundation of Danielle Mitterrand, Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty, Women’s Human Rights International Association-WHRIA, and International Educational Developent – IED.

Tehran: Statesecurity forces backed off facing furious youth

The township of Ekbatan in Tehran

Around noon time last Monday where a group of people had gathered in the town of Ekbatan to protest the water cutoff, the state security forces arrived to disperse the crowd and prevent the gathering from taking momentum. This provoked youth in that gathering, who had prevented the government officials from leaving without doing something to start the flow of water, to stand their ground and attack the suppressive security forces and giving them a lesson not to be forgotten.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Iran’sneighboring countries furious over the West concessions to Iran’s mullahs onnuke talk

Arak Heavy Water reactor

Persian Gulf Arab States and other neighboring counties are getting ever more anxious and concerned as the terms of a possible deal to curb Iran’s ambitions for a nuclear bomb is emerging.

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Report andRecommendations on the humanitarian crisis of Camp Liberty, Iraq

Ad Melkert, former Special Representative of the UN for Iraq

Note of reference
'After having served as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-¬‐General for Iraq (July 2009-¬‐September 2011) I have naturally continued to feel intensely involved with the fate and future of the people of Iraq. I am frequently asked to comment on political, economic, social and humanitarian developments and to contribute to policy debate and recommendations.

Tehran City Hall agents punished by vendors

A number of Tehran’s City Hall operatives harassed an old vendor in Shahristani Bazaar and Imam Hussein Square on Monday Feb. 23rd. The incident sparked a severe reaction by tradesmen in bazaar.