By
the way human rights, free speech...
1995-2001
Features below are not ordered chronologically
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
Just
turned 26
And he won't turn 27
By A. R. Begli Beigie
February 20, 2001
Salaam
beh zibaatarin mahboob-e jahaan
Searching for friends and relatives
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
November 14, 2000
April 7, 1999
Vertical
horizons
"He was no kinder to himself than fate."
By Alaleh Kamran
January 26, 1999
Inferno
in Gothenburg
Sweden's desire to face the issue of immigration
By Susanne Pari
October 20, 1998
Farewell
cherry tree
During the Iran-Iraq war thousands of boys were sent to Europe. I
was one of them.
By Ali Khalili
October 14, 1998
Beyond
culture and race
Feeling strength of numbers, though isolated from diversity
By Mahtab Kanani
Oct 6, 1998
Dignity denied
Iranian Refugees in Germany
By Ozra Dejam
Aug 10 , 1997
On American soil
How tough are new U.S. immigration laws? Ask this Iranian woman
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
December 21, 2000
Making
a hero
Heroes are neither self-selected nor eternal
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
November 27, 2000
Naameh-ye
tah goshaadeh
Letter to domestic terrorists
By Saeed Tavakkol
November 21, 2000
Dictators
create heroes
Heroes appear when there is no way to stop the oppressor
By Amirali Baniasadi
November 20, 2000
Defiance
and regret
Reformists on trial
By Mehdi Ardalan
November 16, 2000
Revolution
of youth
Today's Iranian youth are much more liberated
By Khordad
November 23, 2000
Salaam
beh zibaatarin mahboob-e jahaan
Freedom to vote
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
November 14, 2000
Deaf & blind
Muzzling the press -- the eyes and ears of the people
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
May 5, 2000
No way
back
Ebrahim Nabavi is confident about the reform movement
By Pedram Moallemian
May 3, 2000
February 2, 1999
Knowing silence
Editor of banned magazine on being a journalist
By Gholam-Hossein Zakeri
January 27, 1999
Speechless
Gol Aqa's ideas on the rights of the press
July 31, 1998
Not funny
Cartoons from a now banned newspaper in Iran
July 31, 1997
The
price of a pressless society
Faraj Sarkuhi's article on the need for a vibrant press (Persian
text)
Translated by Vahid Naraghi
The Sarkuhi case
Chronology of events on the arrest, imprisonment and final release
of Faraj Sarkuhi, editor of Adineh.
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
December 21, 2000
Citizen
Pahlavi
Holding on to the monarchy will not do him any good
Editorial
January 25, 2001
Democractic
republic or...
Reza Pahlavi says it's up to the people
Audio excerpts
January 25, 2001
Powerless
But still popular
By Mehdi Ardalan
December 6, 2000
Salaam
beh zibaatarin mahboob-e jahaan
Searching for friends and relatives
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
November 14, 2000
February 26, 1999
200,000 seats
First local council elections in photographs
July 14, 1998
Najafabad
Located not far from Isfahan, it has been the scene of sporadic
skirmishes between Montazeri supporters and the security forces (in
Persian)
April 3, 1998
Law & Order?
From arbitrary arrests to legal harassment: Interviews with Ibrahim
Yazdi, leader of the Freedom Movement of Iran (Nehzat-e Azaadi-ye Iran); Heshmatollah
Tabarzadi, editor of the radical student newsletter Payam-e Daneshjou (Students'
Message); and Habibollah Payman, leader of the disbanded Combatant Muslims Movement
(Jonbesh-e Mosalmanan-e Mobaarez) (in Persian)
Oct 13, 1997
Your input: The League
of Iranian-American Voters
The League is asking for your comments/suggestions on their temporary
mission statement
Oct 13, 1997
What can we
do?
We can change the political atmosphere by making sure that our views
get "out there"
By Trita Parsi
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
December 21, 2000
July 24, 2001
Last
refuge
A discourase on humanism
By Hamed Vahidi
May 3, 1999
Travelers
on one ship
An in depth interview with Abdolkarim Soroush
By Mahmoud Sadri
October 26, 1998
Let the
occasional chalice break
Abdolkarim Soroush and Islamic liberation theology
By Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri
April 28, 1998
Religion:
It's all in your head
... but don't take it lightly. Excerpts from "Consilience : The
Unity of Knowledge"
By Edward O. Wilson.
March 31, 1998
Candle
in the dark
From "Twenty-Six Years Later; Ivan Illich in conversation with
Majid Rahnema"
Jan 2, 1998
Nezaarat,
nah dekhaalat
Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri's controversial views on velayat-e
faqih; speech in Qom, in Persian...
Khaah
pand gir, khaah....
Montazeri's response to attacks following his speech, in Persian...
Oct 21, 1997
Echoes
of Kierkegaard and Locke
How Islamic revisionists are on the same path as their Western counterparts
By Ahmad Sadri
Opening, NOT
closing universities (Persian)
Interview on Soroush's role in the Cultural Revolution Council
By Reza Farahani
Abdolkarim
Soroush
Reformist thinker's lectures; comments on his views and... during
his trip to the U.S. in 1997.
I'm
not his slave
My husband jumped on me and started beating me up
By Siamack Baniameri
Shaban
The story of Shaban "Beemokh" Jafari
By Homa Sarshar
Sedaaye
toope football
Evin memoirs
By Shahrnoush Parsipour
Life
in Evin
Memoirs
By Ebrahim Nabavi
Admit it
Interrogation of former agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on video
National Union of Journalists, UK
Eliminate
violence
... in all its forms, including the death penalty
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
Why
would I repent?
Novel
By Farnoosh Moshiri
Seven
bullets
One bullet at a time. I count them.
By Farnoosh Moshiril
Alive
and kicking
Victim meets torturer
By Fariba Amini
Burning
eyes
No one will cry for us
By Javdon
Watching
the watcher
Monitor has put the human rights movement in Iran at risk
By Ramin Ahmadi and Joanne Cossitt
January 24, 2002
Admit
it
Interrogation of former agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence
on video
National Union of Journalists, UK
January 23, 2002
Democracy
will prevail
Akbar Ganji's trial
December 21, 2000
Looking
under the carpet
Remembering Hiroshima so that we do not let it happen to us
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Crossfire
A Palestinian tragedy
By Edna Yaghi
December 6, 2000
Salaam
beh zibaatarin mahboob-e jahaan
Searching for friends and relatives
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
November 14, 2000
Second
class
The legal status of Iranian women
By Mehrangiz Kar
April 18, 2000
Right
to choose
First protests against mandatory hijab
Compiled by Pedram Missaghi
March 7, 2000
Women's
movement
A brief history 1850-2000
By Massoume Price
March 7, 2000
Solidarity
with students
American academics write to President Khatami
Interview by Jahanshah Javid
March 2, 2000
September 16, 1999
Acceptance
Iranian homosexuals are excluded, even abroad
By Yek Irani
September 28, 1999
Take
a stand
Open letter to President Khatami
By Hossein Baqer Zadeh
September 14, 1999
Eliminate
violence
... in all its forms, including the death penalty
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
September 14, 1999
False
accusations
Reply to extremists
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
September 14, 1999
March 11, 1999
160 degrees
A reversal of sorts in attitudes towards human rights
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
March 11, 1999
Molla
or not
Concern over Mohsen Kadivar's arrest, even though he's a clergyman
By Emami
November 2, 1998
The education
of Mahdiyeh
... from bubblegum to Bahais
By J. Javid
May 1998
Situation
of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Nov 2, 1997
Letter to U.N. human rights
rep on recent stonings
From Sassan Pejhan
Oct 30, 1997
Dutch government's
concession on Iranian asylum-seekers
Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR)
Oct 28, 1997
Iranian anti-death
penalty campaign
The Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG)
Action to
prevent second stoning of Zoleykhah Kadkhoda
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Oct 10, 1997
"Peacemaker" degrades
Iranians
Action Alert from Iranian-American Anti-discrimination Website
Oct 6, 1997
Turkey halts
deportation of Iranian refugees
IFIRIC report
Oct 1, 1997
Gloria Steinem
could learn a thing or two
An intellectual (and intelligent) discussion in Tehran on women's
issues
No
cure
A rapist is hanged; the sickness remains
By Hossein B. Zadeh
No ifs or buts
Human rights play cardinal roles towards a civil society
By Hossein B. Zadeh
Iranian
refugees in peril
Turkish government regulations violate refugee rights
By Maryam Namazi
Reproductive
health of refugee women in Kaysari, Turkey
Comprehensive reproductive health care precludes refugee women's full
participation in asserting their rights
By Maryam Namazi
Call for
Free Elections in Iran
Democracy Network of Iran's signature drive (21 so far - May 23)
Exclusions
and obstacles mar Iran's presidential elections
Human Rights Watch
U.N.
human rights report on Iran - Feb 1997
U.S. State Departments human rights report
Last
call
After four centuries, Armenians of Shazand are no more
By Behrooz Parsa
Last
refuge
A discourase on humanism
By Hamed Vahidi
July 24, 2001
Persian
Judaism
One God, One Torah, and One Persian Jewish community
By Houman Kashani and Arash Lalezary
March 23, 2001
Ups and
(mostly) downs
The history of Jews in Iran
By Massoume Price
May 12, 2000
Saving
Jews
The Iranian "Schindler List"
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
July 9, 1999
Illicit education
Bahai's struggle to educate their youth
18 February, 1999
The invisible
Iranians
Iranian Jews seek more visibility - and acceptance
By Maryam Shargh
May 29, 1998
Weathering the
storm
Jews in today's Iran
Aug 26, 1997
I'm
no infidel
Bullied in the U.S. for being an Iranian; persecuted in Iran
for being a Bahai
By Bita Binazir
June 1997
In time for Noruz
Helping needy children with mothers who have lost their husbands
By Kourosh Amiri
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