New executions in Karaj and Birjand today- One executed in Tehran yesterday
According to the reports from Iran several people have been executed in different Iranian cities today and yesterday. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Tip on Hyves Share on Linkedin Share on technorati Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Dismissed allegations against Red Cross
DOWNLOAD Shelter Progress 25 September 2010 NL-Aid received an alarming e-mail by Brother Gerard Haiti about mismanagement of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). They claimed that IFRC is not building emergency housing. According to Brother Gerard, IFRC is transferring money to criminal gangs in Haiti in order to enjoy protection [...]
A vice-president as a deus ex machina, and more protests to come
The appointment of lieutenant general Omar Suleiman, chief of Egypt’s Mukhabarat (intelligence), as vice-president is not going to change anything. Suleiman (74), a man who among other things is responsible for maintaining the siege of Gaza and who acted frequently as a go-between in the framework of the ‘peace process’ between Israel and the Palestinians, [...]
Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the HRDs
Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, as she concludes her visit to India From 10 to 21 January 2011, I carried out a fact-finding mission to assess the situation of human rights defenders in India, and traveled to New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar (Orissa), Kolkata (West Bengal), Guwahati (Assam), [...]
10 people were hanged in Tehran this morning
Ten people were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning Wednesday January 19th. According to the Iranian news agency Mehr, all the men were convicted of drug trafficking and they were sentenced to death by hanging in Tehran’s revolution court. According to the official reports 74 people have been hanged in Iran since December [...]
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