Tag: human rights

Mahsa Amini’s father detained by Iranian authorities on anniversary of daughter’s death

Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said. Amini was killed in the custody of the morality police on September 16, 2022, after being arrested for allegedly failing to wear her headscarf properly. Her death triggered protests throughout Iran. Safin Hamid/AFP/Getty Images… Read More Mahsa Amini’s father detained by Iranian authorities on anniversary of daughter’s death

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‘It is not possible to organise in Iran’: jailed activist warns of totalitarianism after Mahsa Amini protests

Majid Tavakoli says protesters should have had more help from abroad but the west doesn’t understand what Iran has become The majority of Iranians wish for a “normal life and for a government similar to the governments based on the liberal democratic system”, one of Iran’s most prominent political activists has said, as he prepares… Read More ‘It is not possible to organise in Iran’: jailed activist warns of totalitarianism after Mahsa Amini protests

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Iranian women know which battles to fight. They’ve been doing it for decades

Mahnaz Afkhami On September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman, died while she was in the custody of Iran’s morality police for the “crime” of inadequate veiling. This event spearheaded an uprising that soon captured global attention and gained support, from grassroots activists to world leaders. As we have come to expect, the Iranian regime reacted to the uprising… Read More Iranian women know which battles to fight. They’ve been doing it for decades

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The world can solve this migration crisis. A more humane approach is the answer

Clive Myrie Are the world’s richer nations normalising the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean? That’s the fear of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), the body established in 1951 “out of the chaos and displacement of western Europe after the second world war”. Eleven million people were uprooted and the IOM’s job was to help… Read More The world can solve this migration crisis. A more humane approach is the answer

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Power over principle: Turkey’s skin-deep opposition

Kaya Genç Power to the powerful, contempt for the weak: in replicating this rule of Turkish politics, the opposition CHP differs in no way from Erdoğan’s AKP. Indeed, in persecuting all critics of the Turkish state, the Islamists are simply re-enacting the republican legacy. Pessimism derives from pessimus, the Latin for ‘the worst’. In the days leading… Read More Power over principle: Turkey’s skin-deep opposition

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1974)

NB: This is an astonishing declaration, The most outstanding Rusian conservative of the twentieth century, an ex-Red Army officer, imprisoned in the Gulag for eight years for criticising Stalin, expelled from his homeland, and winner of the Nobel Prize, still invoking the democratic spirit of the soviets of 1917; and asking for civil dialogue amongst… Read More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1974)

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Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship

NB: Lies can kill: that’s the simple and awful reality which cannot be disguised by all the fluff about ‘post truth’ we hear these days. Does the state have the right to destroy our lives for.. what exactly? Humanity is drowning in propaganda and deceit. It’s happening all over the world: a gigantic spectacle that… Read More Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship

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Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief

Tamir Pardo comments, slammed by ruling Likud party, carry weight because of high regard for intelligence agency in Israel Chris McGreal A former head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel is imposing a form of apartheid on the Palestinians, joining a growing number of prominent Israelis to compare the occupation of the West Bank to… Read More Israel imposing apartheid on Palestinians, says former Mossad chief

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More Evidence Regarding Henry Kissinger’s Lies About Chile

Chile is a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica – Henry A. Kissinger. By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch Our 240 years of history have not produced a more controversial secretary of state than Henry A. Kissinger.  There are enormous achievements associated with Kissinger, including the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in… Read More More Evidence Regarding Henry Kissinger’s Lies About Chile

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