Middle East
Arming Palestine The Qassam
With stress and strain between Israel and Palestine hitting the 24 hour news cycle again, I wanted to take a look at one aspect of ……Read More
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Labour activist Pedram Abdollahi begins serving out 19-month sentence
Another Iranian labour activist has been detained. According to the website of the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ organisations, committee member Pedram Nasrollahi was ……Read More
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‘Blogger was tortured to death,’ testify Evin Prison inmates
Opposition council slams Sattar Beheshti ‘murder’ Forty-one political prisoners held at Evin Prison’s Ward 350 have issued a joint statement testifying that dissident blogger Sattar ……Read More
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Tortured Iranian blogger buried amid calls for probe into death
Reporters Without Borders ‘deeply shocked’ over prisoner’s fate The Paris-based rights group Reporters Without Borderssays it is “deeply shocked” by the death of Iranian blogger and activist Sattar Beheshti, who is believed ……Read More
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Student activist Bahman Darolshafaei begins serving out 5 ½ year jail term
Student activist Yashar Darolshafaei has referred to Evin Prison to serve out his jail-term. According to opposition site Kaleme, Darolshafaei, a postgraduate student at Tehran University, ……Read More
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Activist Sattar Beheshti dies under torture in Iran’s Evin Prison
A week after arrest Exactly a week after his arrest by Iran’s cyber police, labour activist Sattar Beheshti has died as a result of torture at the ……Read More