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NEWS
- Zara Mohamadi sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Iranian activists sentenced to further imprisonment for tweeting about protests
- Iranian Regime’s Brutal Persecution of Minorities Strongly Condemned by UNPO GA
- Jailed Iran activist Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike
- Iran Protests Continue Across the Country
- Iranian Lawyer Requests Retrial for Kurdish Dissident Facing Execution
- Nasrin Sotoudeh Takes On Iranian Regime (…once again)
- 107 Woman Executed in Iran During Rouhani’s Tenure
- Iran’s Latest Coronavirus Condition; 15 Provinces Red Status, Dangerous Autumn Ahead
- Kurdish farmers, officials warn of ‘catastrophe’ as Iran blocks water supply
OPINION, COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS
- Iran: how to kill a language
- Iran Regime’s Oppression and Execution Are a Continuation of Its 1988 Massacre
- Iran-Iraq War: How a forgotten conflict still shapes Middle East politics to this day
- Iran’s Mostazafan Foundation Places Its Knee on the Neck of the People
- The Iran-Turkey Alliance: A Plan for Regional Domination?
- Iran’s Struggling Economy
- Intensifying Turkish war against Kurds marks Treaty of Sevres centenary
MUTLIMEDIA
- Zara Mohammadi engagiert sich mit Sprachunterricht für die kurdische Bevölkerung.
- Coup 53 – Trailer
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NEWS
- Zara Mohamadi sentenced to 10 years in prison
14 July 2020 | Hengaw Organization for Human Rights
Zara Mohamadi, board member of the Kurdish NGO Nojin, was sentenced to ten years in prison. The NGO Nojin has been campaigning for civil, social and cultural rights of the Kurdish population in Sanandaj (Kordistan Province) for seven years. The 28-year-old activist has also been giving Kurdish classes on a voluntary basis in Sanandaj and in the surrounding villages for ten years.
https://hengaw.net/en/news/zara-mohamadi-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison
- Iranian activists sentenced to further imprisonment for tweeting about protests
27 July 2020 | Morning Star
Iranian university student, movement leader and long-time political prisoner Bahareh Hedayat was sentenced to a further four years and eight months in prison on Sunday for tweeting about anti-government protests.
- Iranian Regime’s Brutal Persecution of Minorities Strongly Condemned by UNPO GA
07 Aug 2020 | UNPO
Appalled by the systematic persecution of minorities by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the UNPO’s XV General Assembly adopted a strong resolution expressing its continued support for the struggle of the people of Iranian Kurdistan, West Balochistan, Southern Azerbaijan, and Al-Ahwaz for the right to self-determination, democracy, freedom and national rights. UNPO members from Iran reported during the General Assembly that the situation in the country has worsened recently, especially when it comes to the status of the different non-Persian nations and human rights violations.
https://unpo.org/article/22019
- Jailed Iran activist Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike
13 Aug 2020 | Middle East Monitor
Human rights activist and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun a hunger strike to protest “the injustice and illegal conditions that political detainees are subjected to in Iranian prisons”. “My client Nasrin Sotoudeh announced today, August 12, in a letter; She has gone on a hunger strike to protest the unjust and illegal situation of political prisoners, which has been exacerbated by the outbreak of Corona,” Sotoudeh’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, said on Twitter.
- Iran Protests Continue Across the Country
13 Aug 2020 | Iran Focus
Protests continued across Iran on Wednesday, August 12, with people from all different sectors of society and completely different complaints taking to the streets and demanding change. In Mashhad, cystic fibrosis (CF) patients held a rally in front on Akbar Hospital to protest the high cost of medicine, noting that most CF patients cannot afford the required medicine at any time, least of all during a pandemic that has damaged both the economy and the healthcare systems. Even those who can afford the skyrocketing price may not be able to actually get the medicine because of shortages.
https://www.iranfocus.com/en/protests/34703-iran-protests-continue-across-the-country
- Iranian Lawyer Requests Retrial for Kurdish Dissident Facing Execution
14 Aug 2020 | Voice of America
One of the Iranian lawyers representing a minority Kurdish political prisoner facing execution in Iran has reportedly asked for a retrial to overturn the man’s death sentence, which supporters say was unjustly based on forced confessions.
- Nasrin Sotoudeh Takes On Iranian Regime (…once again)
18 Aug 2020 | Global Rights
Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian human rights lawyer last year sentenced to 38 years in prison (and 158 lashes) by the Islamic Republic of Iran, has this week managed to post a statement from her prison cell
https://www.globalrights.info/2020/08/nasrin-sotoudeh-takes-on-iranian-regime-once-again/
- 107 Woman Executed in Iran During Rouhani’s Tenure
19 Aug 2020 | Iran Focus
The Iranian regime executed an unidentified woman at dawn on Tuesday in the Central Prison of Mashhad. The woman, who was executed along with three men, had been on death row for 11 years. At the time of writing, the execution was not announced in state media, but she was the 107th woman hanged during the regime’s President, Hassan Rouhani’s tenure. This is not surprising, given that Iran is not only the world leader in executions per capita but the world leader in executions of women.
https://www.iranfocus.com/en/human-rights/34717-107-woman-executed-in-iran-during-rouhani-s-tenure
- Iran’s Latest Coronavirus Condition; 15 Provinces Red Status, Dangerous Autumn Ahead
21 Aug 2020 | Iran Focus
Meanwhile, Tehran and 26 provinces of the country are still in the red situation of the coronavirus, and the Deputy Minister of Health also demanded the cessation of any gathering and even the non-reopening of schools and universities.
- Kurdish farmers, officials warn of ‘catastrophe’ as Iran blocks water supply
23 Aug 2020 | Rudaw
Kawa Haji has planted nearly 12 kinds of fruits and vegetables on nine acres of his farmland on the banks of the Little Zab river. But he and and many other farmers are now desperate for water to irrigate their produce.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/230820201
OPINION, COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS
- Iran: how to kill a language
06 Aug 2020 | Democracy Now
On July 14, 2020, Kurdish language teacher and civil society activist, Zara (also Zahra) Mohammadi was sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Courts. Zara was first arrested in her hometown Sine (also known as Sanandaj), in the Kurdistan Province of Iran, on 23 May 2019.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/iran-how-kill-language/
- Iran Regime’s Oppression and Execution Are a Continuation of Its 1988 Massacre
18 Aug 2020 | NCRI
The regime of Iran executed Mostafa Salehi on August 5 for his participation in the nationwide Iran protests in 2017-2018, despite international protests. Five other detained protesters have also been sentenced to death, and they are currently in prison.
- Iran-Iraq War: How a forgotten conflict still shapes Middle East politics to this day
19 Aug 2020 | The Independent
Many who took part in the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, which ended 32 years ago on Thursday, would like to forget what happened. It was a horrendous conflict that killed at least half a million people.
- Iran’s Mostazafan Foundation Places Its Knee on the Neck of the People
24 Aug 2020 | Iran Focus
Iran’s so-called Mostazafan Foundation (Foundation of the oppressed), which was established from the first day in the name of deprived and oppressed people and was supposed to take the confiscated property of the heads of the monarchy and donate it to the deprived and oppressed people.
- The Iran-Turkey Alliance: A Plan for Regional Domination?
24 Aug 2020 | Honest Reporting
The first indication of strengthening ties relates to Turkey’s support for Hamas, which, to date, has been largely supported by the Islamic Republic. There have been a series of meetings in recent weeks between Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Hamas members, including Saleh al-Arouri, the terror group’s deputy chief, and Maher Salah, its head of operations outside of the Gaza Strip.
https://honestreporting.com/iran-turkey-axis-plan-regional-domination/
- Iran’s Struggling Economy
24 Aug 2020 | NCRI
Every day Iran witnesses a new face in its economic crises which are reflected in most state media outlets. While the government’s main effort is to hide the reality from the face of the people, the situation is worse than that, and the government’s wrong economic policies and its profligacy in other countries have a clear effect on the people’s lives and the economy inside the country.
https://www.iranfocus.com/en/economy/34729-iran-s-struggling-economy
- Intensifying Turkish war against Kurds marks Treaty of Sevres centenary
24 Aug 2020 | Arab News
As Turkey carries out almost daily attacks on impoverished Kurdish regions in neighboring Syria and Iraq, keeps its own elected ethnic Kurdish MPs indefinitely imprisoned, and coerces Iraqi Arab and Kurdish authorities to act as its local police, it is hard to remember that August marks the centenary of a pact in which provision was made for a Kurdish state.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1723591/middle-east
MULTIMEDIA
- Zara Mohammadi engagiert sich mit Sprachunterricht für die kurdische Bevölkerung.
01 Aug 2020 | WorldKurd Organization
Zara Mohammadi is committed to providing language classes to the Kurdish population. Now she is accused of crimes against national security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwV2lhISoo
- Coup 53 – Trailer
Ten years in the making, COUP 53 tells the story of the 1953 the Anglo-American coup d’état that overthrew Iran’s government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah.