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Urgent action call for Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari

By Demdigest on May 21, 2010

Democracy and human rights activists are expressing concern at the imminent trial of Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, whose hearing is scheduled for this Sunday, May 23.
Hard-liners claim Shiva and her Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) are linked to the Mojahedin e-Khalq, a leftist terrorist group that advocates the violent overthrow of [read full story]

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Iran’s Million Signatures Campaign: A Leading Voice for Democracy

By David Lowe on November 9, 2009

Iran’s fraudulent presidential election last summer has spawned ongoing street protests and mass demonstrations, as students, women, human rights activists, workers, and many others have mobilized to challenge the corrupt clerical and political establishment that rules the country. Radio Farda reported last week that on November 2nd, ten members of the One Million Signatures Campaign [read full story]

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Hard-line backlash, but elite rifts ‘bode well’ for Iranian democracy

By Michael Allen on August 3, 2009

Renewed protests erupted today as Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as president for a new four-year term, temporarily papering over the cracks revealed in recent factional fights. With a mass trial of opposition figures underway and uncompromisingly strident rhetoric, the regime is taking a notably harder stance towards the reformist [read full story]

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Iran: prominent women’s rights activist arrested (no, not this one)

By Michael Allen on July 20, 2009

The World Movement for Democracy reports:
On July 17, Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and prominent women’s rights activist working with the One Million Signatures Campaign, was arrested by undercover security officers and taken to an undisclosed location.  The men pulled her into a car as she walked along a busy road and beat her as she [read full story]

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From small seeds…

By Michael Allen on June 23, 2009

It may seem like stating the obvious, but Anne Applebaum makes the point that mass movements are rarely, if ever, purely spontaneous upsurges but rather reflect the undramatic, tedious, and incremental work of activists and organizations generally working below the media’s radar.
She highlights the One Million Signatures Campaign’s online petition for equal rights within [read full story]

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