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.
This report, which presents the 2012 list of countries that are “Enemies of the Internet” and “under surveillance,” updates the report published on 12 March 2011.
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.
This article tries to describe the deteriorating situation for workers in the Islamic Republic with ever-rising inflation, the decline of the manufacturing sector and mismanagement of the economy.
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.
A Tehran ceremony to hail Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Oscar win for his movie "A Separation" has been cancelled by authorities, media reported on Monday without giving an explanation.
Seven Iranian MPs want to tone down Parliament's stance regarding irregularities in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration, proposing that the president's questioning by Parliament on March 14 be changed to a "mutual exchange" to "discuss"…
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