Iran: goal

An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale jolted the towns of Bam and Baravat,in the Kerman province of Iran at 22:24 local time.
There were no victims mentioned.
bron: en.trend.az,irsc.ut.ac.ir



December 31 were around 300 people, arrested on Ashura(December 27) transferred from Evinprison to the solitary cells of Gohardasht prison in Karaj.
They were handcuffed and black plastic bags were thrown over their heads.
Some people were severely tortured, they could hardly walk.
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran reports that Section 8 of Gohardasht prison is also known as Revolutionary Guard ward, is directed by Ministry of Intelligence interrogators.
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran emphasize that the prisoners who are transferred to this prison are in danger of being tortured, that would result in [false] confessions, and later on, harsh punishment in courts.
source: persian2english.wordpress.com


Here is the complete list of banned organizations as published in Iranian media, via Enduring America:




1. Soros Foundation — Open Society
2. Woodrow Wilson Center
3. Freedom House
4. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
5. National Democratic Institute (NDI)
6. International Republican Institute (IRI)
7. Institute for Democracy in East Europe (EEDI)
8. Democracy Center in East Europe (CDEE)
9. Ford Foundation
10. Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
11. Hoover Institute at Stanford University
12. Hivos Foundation, Netherlands
13. Menas, U.K.
14. United Nations Association (USA)
15. Carnegie Foundation
16. Wilton Park, U.K.
17. Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
18. Population Council
19. Washington Institute for Near East Policy
20. Aspen Institute
21. American Enterprise Institute
22. New America Foundation
23. Smith Richardson Foundation
24. German Marshall Fund (US, Germany and Belgium)
25. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
26. Abdolrahman Boroumand Foundation
27. Yale University
28. Meridian Center
29. Foundation for Democracy in Iran
30. International Republican Institute [again --- see 6]
31. National Democratic Institute [again --- see 5]
32. American Initiative Institute (?)
33. Institute of Democracy in Eastern Europe
34. American Aid Center (?)
35. International Trade Center
36. American Center for International Labor Solidarity
37. International Center for Democracy Transfer
38. Association for Union Democracy
39. Albert Einstein Institute
40. Global Movement for Democracy
41. The Democratic Youth Network
42. Democracy Information and Communication Technology Group
43. International Movement of Parliamentarians for Democracy
44. Network of Democracy Research Institutes
45. RIGA Institute
46. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
47. Council on Foreign Relations
48. Foreign Policy Committee, Germany
49. Middle East Media Research Institute (described as an Israeli institute)
50. Centre for Democracy Studies, U.K.
51. Meridian Institute [again --- see 28]
52. Yale University and all its affiliates [again --- see 27]
53. National Defense University, U.S.
54. Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
55. American Center FLENA (active in Central Asia)
56. Committee on the Present Danger
57. Brookings Institution
58. Saban Center, Brookings Institution
59. Human Rights Watch
60. New America Foundation [again --- see 22]


Contacts with BBC and VOA are also banned.


Throughout Iran womans rights acivists and female journalist are arrested in an attempt to repress masses of Iranians from advocating for their civil rights.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has said in a statement that it is clear that Iranian authorities are singling out women’s rights activists and arbitrarily arresting them, as well as female journalists, in the context of recent public demonstrations.
Arrested are:
Dr. Nooshin Ebadi,Atieh Yousefi, Parisa Kakaie, Bahareh Hedayat,Zohre Tonkaboni,
Mahin Fahimi, Shiva Nazarahari, Somayeh Rashidi,Maryam Zia, Mansoureh Shojaie, Badrossadat Mofidi,Nasrin Vaziri, Mahsa Hekmat,Layla en Sara Tavasoli,Azar Mansouri,
Niloufar Hashemi Azar, Atefeh Nabavi, Shabnam Maddadzad.



Anonymous Iran

Green Brief 82 en 83


Enduring America

Nite Owl




In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl