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Interview with Mitra Aliabouzar, USRHR Women’s Committee – Michigan, USA

Sun 19 Jul 2020

My name is Mitra Aliabouzar. I was a member of the Islamic Student Association at Tehran Polytechnic (AUT) and Sharif University of Technology (SUT). I was arrested three times after the disputed presidential election in 2009. I left Iran in 2013 and joined the George Washington University (GWU) for a Ph.D. program. I received my doctoral degree in mechanical engineering in 2018 and right now I am a postdoc fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UMICH).

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Interview with Hajir Attari, USRHR Media committee – Sweden

Sun 19 Jul 2020

Thank you for your invitation. My name is Hajir Attari born in 1982, graduated from Industrial Engineering, Systems Analysis Dept. from Azad University.

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Interview with Parviz Mokhtari USRHR member International Committee- Germany

Sun 19 Jul 2020

I was raised in a politically active family. My father worked for Iranian railways and at night for “Eteelaat” newspaper. We almost always had daily and weekly journals in our house.

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Human Rights

Iran: Death Penalty for Protest-Related Charges

Sat 11 Jul 2020

(Beirut) – Iranian courts have reportedly issued or upheld at least four execution sentences since late June 2020 in connection to repeated protests against the deterioration of economic conditions and government corruption over the past two years, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Why Iranians, rattled by suicides, point a finger at leaders

Fri 10 Jul 2020

The powerful images of hopelessness came one after another, creating mounting waves of shock for Iranians who may have thought themselves inured to tales of desperation, destitution, and political angst.

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We immigrants owe a great debt to the African American struggle for equality

Fri 10 Jul 2020

A few days after I arrived as a refugee in America in 1985, when I was 18, relatives already living here came to take me sightseeing. My mother and I had resettled in New York, and naturally my relatives wanted to show me the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Instead, I wanted to see Harlem.

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The Odyssey of Iranian Sociologists Under Pressure

Wed 08 Jul 2020

On April 6, 2020, a letter arrived in the mailbox of the International Sociological Association, where I serve as a member of the executive committee. Signed by Hossein Serajzadeh, president of the Iranian Sociological Association, the letter calls attention to the combined impact of US-imposed economic sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic on the profession of Iranian sociology. The situation is dire, wrote Serajzadeh, as he invited international colleagues to stand in solidarity with their Iranian counterparts against the sanctions.

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Human Rights

Iran: Forcibly disappeared prisoner feared ‘executed by firing squad’

Thu 02 Jul 2020

The Iranian authorities are responsible for the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance against prisoner Hedayat Abdollahpour and his family, and must reveal the full truth concerning his secret execution and return his body to his family, Amnesty International said today.

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Human Rights

Torture and Coercion: Fresh Informatio n Surfaces on the Nightmarish Trial of Three Young Protesters

Thu 02 Jul 2020

Harrowing details have emerged about the treatment of three young Iranians who were reportedly sentenced to death for their presence at the November 2019 demonstrations.

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Human Rights

Iranian court sentences workers to flogging, forced labour and prison

Thu 02 Jul 2020

The workers are being punished for protesting the non-payment of wages after the privatization of Azarab Industries. Workers have not been paid for May and June of this year. The court ruled that the workers who took part in demonstrations are guilty of disrupting public order and insulting public officials. The sentence can be appealed.

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Interview with Mitra Aliabouzar, USRHR Women’s Committee – Michigan, USA

Interview with Hajir Attari, USRHR Media committee – Sweden

Interview with Parviz Mokhtari USRHR member International Committee- Germany

Iran: Death Penalty for Protest-Related Charges

Why Iranians, rattled by suicides, point a finger at leaders

We immigrants owe a great debt to the African American struggle for equality

The Odyssey of Iranian Sociologists Under Pressure

Iran: Forcibly disappeared prisoner feared ‘executed by firing squad’

Torture and Coercion: Fresh Informatio n Surfaces on the Nightmarish Trial of Three Young Protesters

Iranian court sentences workers to flogging, forced labour and prison

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