People caught up in the massive wave of arrests in the wake of the Syrian uprising have been thrust into a nightmarish world of systemic torture, a new report by Amnesty International says today.
Farshid Yazdani, a member of the Association for the Defense of Children’s Rights, has raised the flag on the increasing rate of the marriage of girls under the age of 10 in Iran. He stated that in 2009, 449 girls under the age of 10 were…
Seventy-two Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers were arrested by Indonesian police while trying to cross from Loji to Australia's Christmas Island.
For years now, the authorities in Iran have tried to crack down on the use of satellite dishes, which give Iranians access to foreign channels.
Kouhyar Goudarzi, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist, has been sentenced to five years in jail and exile to Zabol. The Human Rights Reporters Committee reports that the sentence was issued on March 7 at the Revolutionary court.
The announced launching of Iran’s “National Internet” has been widely covered in the media. Meanwhile the authorities have fortified filtering and their technical capacity to closely monitor the Web.
Rahim Mahmoudi, the head of the Council for Defending Political Prisoners in Iran, said that due to the lack of free media in Iran, there is no correct estimate of the number of Kurdish political prisoners in Iranian jails.
“Emo” is now a term used in Baghdad to refer to young men who dress and act in a hip-hop style. This trend has become popular among teenagers between 12 and 17 years old.
Dozens of civilians in Syria's city of Homs were killed in cold blood, the government and opposition said, disputing responsibility for what both sides called a massacre.
Iran executed some 670 people last year, most of them for drug crimes that do not merit capital punishment under international law and more than 20 for offences against Islam, a United Nations investigator said on Monday.
Kurdistan Press Agency
