Iran has been on the United States’ radar for a long time for its ongoing and controversial nuclear program. Something that has been dramatically overlooked, however, is its state of religious freedom. Iran routinely and systematically makes it difficult for religious minorities to practice their faith safely and openly. The worst case of this p ... Continue reading »
The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite all the steps the United Nations has taken over decades to end the epidemic. Just last fall, systematic rapes, committed by the Congolese Army, occurred in an area around Minova, a new report, released ... Continue reading »
Mansur Osanlu in a courtesy photo provided by the International Transport Workers' Federation. Prominent Iranian union leader Mansur Osanlu, who recently fled that country, has told RFE/RL that death threats from inside government security circles drove him out of Iran. Osanlu, who is described by some as “Iran’s Lech Walesa” after the labor lea ... Continue reading »
Iranian authorities are holding at least 40 journalists in prison as the June presidential election approaches, the second-highest total in the world and a figure that reflects the government’s continuing determination to silence independent coverage of public affairs, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.
CPJ’s census ... Continue reading »
DETROIT (AP) — An ex-Marine incarcerated in Iran for nearly two years says in the first letters written to family in Michigan that he is praying for his ailing father and that his grieving mother should not come visit him.
Amir Hekmati's sister Sarah Hekmati told The Associated Press Tuesday that receiving the letters has been "very emotional" fo ... Continue reading »
“As the 2013 Iranian presidential election quickly approaches, many in the religious minority communities brace themselves for the worst,” said Sekulow, whose organization represents Abedini’s Idaho-based family. “Meanwhile, Pastor Saeed currently suffers in solitary confinement in Evin prison -- a place in which he said a single day passes like a ... Continue reading »
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists has been detained for nearly two months and is in solitary confinement at Evin Prison, a facility rights advocates have criticized for prisoner abuse, sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bagher Asadi, who was previously a senior diplomat at Iran's U.N. mission in New Y ... Continue reading »
Officials in Iran have begun registering candidates for next month’s presidential election, the first since Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection led to months of violent protests in 2009.
Potential candidates have five days to register and will then be vetted by the Guardians Council, the conservative religious body appointed by Supreme Leader ... Continue reading »
Whispers in the Pentagon and elsewhere in official Washington seem to indicate the Israelis may wait to launch massive airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites until at least after the elections this summer in Iran.
But in the last 48 hours, Israel launched surprise airstrikes in Syria territory. The targets: shipments of Iranian missiles moving ... Continue reading »
A bit of history first. There is from the beginning of time, as our cultural heritage states, via the oral traditions of Zend Avesta, that Iran's culture needs protection. All the people were noble in Iran. That is what the word "Iran" means. It literally translates to mean, the land of the nobles. Also we did not have a "holy" place, as in The Zen ... Continue reading »
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