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****JULY 9,2008 BULLETIN ****
IRAN: JAILED WOMEN ACTIVISTS BEGIN HUNGER STRIKE!*!*!*
Tehran, 9 July (AKI) - Ten Iranian women activists imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison have begun a hunger strike to protest against what they consider harsh treatment.
The women are aged from 17 to 70 and were arrested in the Iranian capital, Tehran, only a fortnight ago.
"These women, the youngest 17 years old and the oldest 70 years old, were arrested two weeks ago in one of Tehran's parks, Mellat Park, while they were collecting signatures calling for a revision of the laws that discriminate against women," women's rights' activist Mahboubeh Akrami told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Wednesday.
About 200 people were arrested at Mellat Park, and many of them were later released. But many others remain in prison.
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Interests and Hobbies: It's become routine for the Iranian government to use vague security charges to detain and intimidate peaceful activists; said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.;Now, they're going further by handing down outrageous sentences
On June 19, Branch Two of the Revolutionary Court in Sanadaj convicted Abdi on charges of
gathering and colluding to commit a crime against national security. The court ordered that she serve five years in a prison in the city of Germi, in the largely Azeri province of Ardbil.
Branch One of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, which is trying Safarzadeh, has not yet made a decision on her case. The lawyer for both women, Mohammad Sharif, told Human Rights Watch that prosecutors have accused Safazadeh of the more serious charge of enmity with God.; According to Iranian law, this charge may be punishable with death.
Safarzadeh and Abdi, both 21, have been in detention in the largely Kurdish city of Sanandaj since their arrest on September 25 and October 23, 2007, respectively. Prior to their arrest, they were active members of the Azarmehr Association of the Women of Kurdistan, a group that organizes capacity-building workshops and sports activities for women in the city of Sanandaj and elsewhere in the Iranian province of Kurdistan. Abdi and Safarzadeh also volunteered with the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality.
Initially, Safarzadeh spent three months and Abdi spent two months in solitary confinement in a detention center run by the Kurdistan Office of the Ministry of Information before authorities transferred them to the women's unit of the general prison in the city of Sanandaj.
The prosecution of these women follows on the heels of the government's crackdown of women activists, particularly those involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality. This grassroots campaign aims to raise awareness of Iran's laws that sanction discrimination against women by collecting 1 million signatures throughout the country in an effort to repeal these biased laws. In the last two years, the Iranian authorities have arrested more than 35 activists involved with the campaign and other women's rights projects.
Detentions and prison sentences against Kurdish rights activists have also been on the rise, with the government often accusing activists of having links with armed opposition groups. In February 2008, the government charged and sentenced to death a Kurdish teacher and civil society activist on charges of
endangering national security
through membership with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The government typically relies on vaguely defined ; offenses to prosecute Iranians who attempt to associate or demonstrate. Human Rights Watch documented the government's reliance on these overbroad laws, which violate the internationally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and association in its most recent report
'You Can Detain Anyone for Anything': Iran's Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism
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Governor of Kordestan Province
Esmail Najjar
Email: In Persian and Kurdish, send via feedback form on the website:
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President
His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
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Girl: Slow down, I'm scared.
Guy: No, this is fun.
Girl: No it's not, please, it's so scary.
Guy: Then tell me you love me.
Girl: I love you, slow down.
Guy: Now give me a big hug
*She gave him a big hug*
Guy: Can you take my helmet off & put it on yourself, It's really bothering me.
The next day in the newspaper, a motorcycle crashed into a building due to brake failure. Two people were in the crash, but only one survived. The truth was that halfway down the road the guy realized that the breaks weren't working, but he didn't want the girl to know. Instead, he had her hug him and tell him she loves him one last time. Then he had her put his helmet on so that she would live, even if it meant that he would die. If you would do the same for the person you love, copy this in your profile
YES I KNOW IT'S FICTIONAL BUT WE SHOULD ALL LOVE SO DEEP. If you love that DEEP it makes it much harder to wish to see others dead.
WE SHOULD WORK ON OURSELVES. YOU CAN NEVER BRING TO THE WORLD WHAT YOU CANNOT DO FOR YOURSELF.
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JULY 9,2008
IRAN:ITALIAN AND E.U. SUPPORT CRUCIAL FOR JAILED STUDENTS, SAYS LEADER
Rome, 9 July (AKI) - The European Union, and in particular Italy, is important in giving hope to the Iranian students' movement to continue their fight for democracy in Iran.
This was the message from Ali Afshari, a prominent leader of the Iranian student movement, when he arrived in Rome on Wednesday. Afshari gave a media conference at the headquarters of the Adnkronos news agency.
Italians are one of the oldest people in the world and also have an important role in European countries, Afshari told AKI in Rome.
European countries right now have a good connection and relations with the Iranian regime and we think that the Iranian regime is influenced by the European Union and in this case Italian support is very helpful.
More support by foreign countries will help and encourage Iranian students in their fight for freedom.
Afshari's visit to Rome coincided with the ninth anniversary of mass protests that took place in the Iranian capital, Tehran on 9 July 1999.
After being one of Iran's most forthright student leaders for many years, Afshari has been forced to live in exile, in the United States.
He also came to Italy to thank Rome's Mayor, Gianni Alemanno, for his recent support for seven detained student activists who sent a letter to him asking for support.
Afshari spoke about their plight and expressed concern about their future.
The situation of them is not good in Iran especially one of them a couple of days ago was sent to a very bad prison. He was punished by the regime, Afshari told AKI.
;For some of them it's nearly two years in jail and it's a cruel and unfair sentence.
Afshari was the secretary for the Central Council of the Islamic Student Association at Amir Kabir University from 1995 to 1999.
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JULY 2,2008
Iran: The Last Executioner of Children and Women in the Modern World
Kurdish National Congress of North America
The Iranian Islamic authorities, soon after they tightened their grip on the country in 1979, following the overthrow of the Shah's tyrannical establishment, have been suppressing every basic human, religious, and ethnic right in Iran. This, in essence, is a grave violation of every democratic principle. Months after they established their religious sectarian rule, and on an order from Khomeini, the Iranian authorities sent their forces to Kurdistan‐Iran in order, as they put it, to wipe out the foreign agents They declared a so‐called Jihad against the Kurdish people. Their jihad did not even spare pregnant women and children sleeping in their cradles.
After regaining control over Kurdistan, instead of working to bring tranquility to the people and show concern for their welfare, the Iranian regime continued the same policies of its predecessor, the Shah's despotic regime. The Iranian regime maintained the policy of persecuting Kurdish human rights advocates and freedom seekers. In 1989, Iranian regime used the negotiation tactics to trap the Secretary General of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), Dr. Abdurrahman Qasmlu along with two of KDPI leadership members in Vienne, and murdered them while they were negotiating terms to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish national demands within a democratic Iran. They were slain while sitting at the negotiation table. This pattern of suppression and murder was repeated in 1992 in Berlin when Qasmlu's successor, Abdurrahman Sharafkandi along with several of his supporters were murdered after returning from a peace conference. Dozens of other Iranian Kurdish democratic and human rights activists who had fled to Kurdistan‐Iraq to escape a certain death were murdered by Iranian co‐conspirators and agents who followed them to Iraq and executed them.
According to the Amnesty International's recent report (2008), Iran is the only country in the world that still executes children and child offenders (those accused of committing an offense when they were under 18 years of age). In the past decade, the Iranian regime sentenced 177 child offenders to death, of which 34 executions have already taken place. Their ages ranged from 12 to 17 years. The remaining 114 await execution. Today, Iran accounts for 73% of all juvenile executions worldwide.
The theocratic state has also launched a campaign of suppression against women and women's organizations who are advocating for human rights for women. Iranian women's groups have been peaceably assembling and using democratic means to try to make the regime to grant them more freedom. Their civic movement has proved to be effective to promote the idea of social justice where all citizens are considered equal before the law regardless of their gender, religion/sect, or ethnicity. As a result, these organizations and their leaders have met with harsh repression in a recent crackdown.
Amongst these women's rights activists are two Kurdish women's rights advocates, Ms. Hana Abdi and Ronak Safarzadeh, both age 21. They had been in prison in the Kurdish city of Sina (Sanadaj), since their arrest on September 25 and October 23, 2007 respectively. The crimes, of which they are charged include being active in the Azarmehr Association of the Women of Kurdistan, a group that promotes women's status through capacity‐building workshops and sports activities for women in Sina and elsewhere in Kurdistan‐Iran; and volunteering with the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality.
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Books: .
as JUNE 19,2008 There are 114 children on death row in Iran awaiting execution. A child was executed Junes 9,2008
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JUNE 19, 2008 CNN
JUZAM ZAM DISPLACEMENT CAMP, Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan's Darfur crisis has exploded on many fronts -- violence, hunger, displacement and looting -- but United Nations peacekeepers say the biggest issue now affecting the region is the systematic rape of women and children.
Thousands of women -- as young as four -- caught in the middle of the struggle between rebel forces and government-backed militias have become victims of rape, they say, with some aid groups claiming it is being used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing.
That is one of the biggest issues in Darfur -- the rapes, and crimes against women and children says Michael Fryer, UNAMID's police commissioner, the United Nations peacekeeping force deployed to try to tackle the violence.
Relief workers say they are powerless to stop the attacks and they say if they do speak out they fear the Sudanese government will tell them to leave the country.Some relief workers say almost 100 percent of
women living in aid camps have been raped or become victims of gender-based violence, with many teenagers forced by militiamen to have sex multiple times while running regular errands such as collecting firewood
They say the situation has now become so bad, many women are now resigned to rape attacks as a way of life and men are unwilling to accompany them because they fear they will be killed if they try to defend them.But despite the extent of the abuse, the Sudanese government insists there is no problem, adding to the difficulties faced by the victims who are often ostracized by their communities or fall foul
of a legal system seen as favoring their
attackers There is no rape in Darfur says Mohammad Hassan Awad, a Humanitarian Aid Commissioner for West Darfur, who accuses foreign aid workers of persuading people in refugee camps to make false claims.
While few aid workers dispute the extent of
the attacks against women, they say survivors are unwilling to come forward -- but those that do reveal shocking levels of abuse.
She said they removed their scarves and used it to tie them up and were taking turns to rape them -- one is 13 years old the other one is 16 years, says Ajayi Funmi of the UNAMID police, who is trying to educate women told CNN after talking to two girls.
Making matters worse, aid workers say scores of babies conceived through rape are being dumped by their mothers. ;Abandoned babies are reported but because of the stigma attached to it there is no detailed report because the women don't come forward,; says Dr Naqib Safi of the U.N. children's body UNICEF.
As many as 20 babies a month are being dumped in one camp of 22,000 people.
With both U.N. officials calling for more female officers to better educate women against rape and women saying they won't feel safe until the under-equipped and undermanned United Nations force is strong enough to protect them
the situation shows little sign of improving.
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THOSE WHO DO NOTHING ABOUT THIS SITUATION ARE ALSO GUILTY OF A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
IF YOU HAVE NOT MADE A DONATION, WRITTEN A LETTER IF YOU HAVE NOT LIFTED A FINGER TO HELP THESE PEOPLE...YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT FROM THE WORLD LEADERS WHO LOOK AWAY.
IT'S CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. PLEASE I BEG YOU..ACT
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