AFP: "Iranian authorities have freed 14 people arrested at award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi's home but the pro-opposition director remains detained, an opposition website said on Thursday."
Human Rights
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has imposed a rigid, fundamentalist form of Islamic law on its people and solidified its hold on power by denying Iranians their basic rights and individual liberties. The Iranian regime’s gross human rights violations have targeted a wide array of ethnic and social groups including women, homosexuals, students, Bahais, Christians, Jews, journalists, and political dissenters. The brutal crackdown seen after the June 2009 presidential election drew international outrage, revealing both the thuggish nature of the regime and its propensity to engage in human rights violations and censorship. The murder of Neda Agha-Soltan and mass arrests by Iran’s Basij paramilitary force and the regime’s collaboration with Nokia-Siemens to monitor its citizens online are only a few of the Iranian regime’s egregious human rights violations.
In July 2009, Human Rights Watch stated that "The Iranian government is desperate to justify its vicious attacks on peaceful protesters… What better excuse does it need than confessions of foreign plots, beaten out of detainees?" Since the election, hundreds of protestors (including women, students, teachers, and politicians) have been wrongfully arrested and nearly 70 people were killed.
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Timeline
Mar 05
Radio Farda: "Iranian student activist Ali Kanturi has been sentenced to 15 years in jail on charges of abduction and extortion, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Kanturi is a member of the left-leaning student group Freedom And Equality-Seeking Students."
Mar 03
WSJ: "U.S. technology companies came under fire on Capitol Hill Tuesday for bowing to pressure by foreign governments to censor or block Internet sites in countries like Iran or China."
Mar 03
Mar 02
WP: "Iran closed a leading newspaper and magazine critical of the government on Monday, further silencing dissenting voices in the Islamic republic after months of anti-government demonstrations."
Mar 02
LAT: "This is what it's like to be a reporter in today's Iran: To cover the recent anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, you had to wear a bright yellow bib identifying you as a journalist and sit in a designated area where you could hear and see President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak, but not the thousands of protesters nearby. But this is also what it's like to be a reporter in today's Iran: You see ordinary people on the bus on the way to work and shopping for groceries in the market."
Mar 02
AP: "The Tehran prosecutor says an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker has been detained as he hosted guests at his home. The state IRNA news agency says Jafar Panahi was taken into custody late Monday." http://nyti.ms/cMsxNF
Mar 01
Feb 22
WP: "But by sentencing protesters to death, blocking Internet sites and foreign satellite transmissions and deploying thousands of security forces, authorities managed to stop the opposition from commandeering the largest state-sponsored street gathering of the year. The government's strategy might eventually backfire, but for the time being, it has served to justify authorities' dismissal of the opposition as a meaningless band of foreign-backed counterrevolutionary rioters."
Feb 18
Radio Farda: "An Iranian court has sentenced Amir-Reza Arefi to death for ties to an illegal group called the Iranian Royalist Society, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports."
Feb 18
Reuters: "Iran's rejection of human rights recommendations made by Western nations shows contempt for both international obligations and its own people, rights group Amnesty International said late on Wednesday."
Feb 18
AP: "Iran has backtracked on a pledge to invite a U.N. torture investigator to visit the country. Iranian officials in Geneva say they rescinded the invitation because Western countries used 'poisonous language' at a U.N. debate Monday on the Islamic Republic's human-rights record."
Feb 17
AP: "An international press freedom watchdog accused Iran of one of the world's most severe crackdowns on journalists with more than 90 reporters arrested last year."
Feb 17
Reuters: "Five foreigners, including a French national, a Japanese reporter and two Russians, were detained during the February 11 rallies marking the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, a prosecutor said on Wednesday."
Feb 16
NYT: "Brushing aside allegations that it has resorted to torture, executions and mass detentions to crush political opposition, Iran made a defiant appearance before the United Nations' human rights body here on Monday, saying that it promoted and defended human rights and that Western critics were exploiting the issue for political ends."
Feb 16
NYT: "The prosecutor general in Tehran on Monday dismissed accusations by the wife of an opposition leader who said her son was arrested and tortured while in detention, the semiofficial ILNA news agency reported."
Feb 16
AP: "Iranian authorities are considering a request by the families of three detained American hikers to visit them in prison, Iran's top human rights official said Tuesday."
Feb 16
Feb 16
Feb 10
AP: "Iran's top police official says authorities have made a series of arrests of suspected opposition activists before expected protest rallies Thursday." http://nyti.ms/bWBVW3
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