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the name of the pen Regular news updates Appeal Noruz appeal: IFIR & CHAIR I am writing once more to wish you a happy noruz and request your support for the critical work of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR). Over these years, you have seen our unrelenting defense of refugee and human rights, a defense which has pushed back assaults on rights and saved thousands of lives ... FULL TEXT Journalists Iran Country Report As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT Missing Missing: Pirouz Davani A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE Feature Stoning Video showing a stonings in Iran in 1991. Extremely disturbing. Not recommended ... VIDEO CLIP HERE Bookmark * Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) * United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights For the latest news visit THE IRANIAN |