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Monthly Report: May 2007
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Middle East program, was arrested on May 8 for alleged crimes against national security and was taken to Evin Prison. In December, Esfandiari, who holds American and Iranian citizenship, traveled to Tehran to visit her 93 year-old mother. ...Editorial: Corruption in Iran
Dramatically increased oil revenues have benefited the Islamic Republic in recent years. Yet living standards for most Iranians have only worsened. For nearly three decades, the Islamic Republic has blamed the Shah’s regime, not to mention the US and Israel, as scapegoats for Iran’s litany of social and economic problems. Lately, ...I Have a Dream
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a ...Labor Rights in Iran
Labor rights, including the right to organize, are codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 23 states, “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.” Yet in Iran, as in most repressive regimes, the movement for labor rights is ...Monthly Report: May 2007
Women’s Rights On March 14, Amnesty International called for the release of women’s rights activists Mahboubeh and Shadi Sadr, held in Evin Prison since early March. Abbasgholizadeh’s daughter, Maryam, publicly expressed concern for her mother on March 18, claiming she had not heard from her for eight days. In contrast, Shadi ...
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