Gozaar
Gozaar Future
Dear readers, Four years ago, Gozaar was launched as a monthly Persian/English web journal on democracy and human rights in Iran. Gozaar (meaning ‘transition’) was a response to the Iranian regime’s stifling of free expression. While the regime suppressed independent media, Gozaar created an inclusive and vibrant ...
Report on Human Rights Abuse, August, 2010
There have been two important trends in human rights during August 2010. First, there was a hunger strike by political prisoners that was to an extent successful (see separate article). Second, the regime has made considerable use of ta’ziri punishments. These allow a judge to impose a sentence according to ...
Being Shiva Nazar Ahari
At Evin prison, Shiva Nazar Ahari is not just a name. It is a sea. A sea of hope. Hope that lights up the eyes of every new prisoner. You can find the name “Shiva Nazar Ahari” in every interrogation room in Ward 209, written in a neat and legible ...
Human Rights Violations Monthly Report: June-July 2010
In the years following the Islamic Revolution in Iran the country went through such tumult that human rights violations gradually became the foremost concern for international organizations. The tortures and executions that took place in the eighties were only the beginning of such violations. These violations were exacerbated during the ...
Human Rights Violations Monthly Report: May-June 2010
One year after the stolen election of June 2009, iran continues to be a leading human rights violator. The abuses of human rights in Iran are widespread. These violations relate to more than just political unrest and the elections. Rather they stem also from Iran’s unfair and non-transparent justice system. ...
Anniversary of Iran's Disputed Presidential Election
When the Iranian people determined last year that their government had denied them their right to free and fair elections, thousands of Iranian citizens poured into the streets to protest peacefully. The Iranian authorities responded to their citizens’ call for accountability and transparency with violence, arbitrary detentions, dubious trials, and ...
McCain: We need to stand up for the Iranian people
Address by Senator John McCain to the National Endowment for Democracy on the anniversary of the Contested 2009 Presidential Election in IranJune 10, 2010“Thank you, Carl [Gershman], for that introduction and for your leadership of the National Endowment for Democracy. Across the world, this institution is living up to the ...
Special Edition: Will the Greens Last?
A year has passed since the unprecedented events that followed the presidential election that was meant to bring change to the management of the country. The people’s protest movement has finally taken shape after thirty years. “Where’s my vote?” is the slogan that began the movement, which seeks freedom through ...
A Word from the Editor
Iran is in turmoil. The people of Iran have made clear their rejection of the stolen presidential election of June 2009. The current regime remains in power by force of arms. There is a large pro-democracy movement in the country. The transition to democracy is not, however, inevitable. To be sure ...The First Iranian Democracy Writings
During the 19th century, Iranian intellectuals began to write about notions of democracy, freedom, rule of law, and the role of religion within the state. Many of these writings are responsible for planting the seed for the Iranian constitutional revolution in 1906 and the process of state building which followed. ...
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