Middle East

A large number of students at Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology have successfully staged protests against university policies, according to reports. According to opposition website ……Read More

After 71 days of house arrest, the wife of opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi, has finally been allowed to leave the family home to receive medical ……Read More

General Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), has admitted that he was taken by surprise by the sheer “magnitude” of protests that ……Read More

Tens of thousands of Syrian protestors took to the streets in what was dubbed the “Great Friday” protests. VOA has reported that 75 people were ……Read More

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has once more expressed his dismay over the on-going illegal house arrest of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and ……Read More

Iranian actor and filmmaker Ramin Parchami, who was arrested during anti-government protests on 14 February, has been sentenced to a year in prison. The 38-year-old ……Read More