Joomla! site syndication http://ayahra.org/en/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:53:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://ayahra.org/en//images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://ayahra.org/en/ Joomla! site syndication http://ayahra.org/en//content/view/699/26/   (radiozamaneh) Iranian security forces have arrested 50 people over the past two weeks in the Arab neighbourhoods of the southwestern province of Khuseztan. Two of the detainees were killed while in custody, writer and human rights activist Yousef Azizi Banitaraf told Zamaneh. “The security forces are telling elders of the tribes in the region to bring people to the voting booths,” Banitaraf reports; “and the young people are opposed to this.” The arrests, which have taken place in Shoosh, Ahvaz and Hamidieh, were apparently triggered by a number of youth writing slogans on public walls calling for a boycott of the coming parliamentary elections. The reports indicate that Nasser Alboshokeh Derafshan and Mohammad Kaabi were killed while in custody. Last March another detainee, Reza Moghamessi also reportedly died in Dezfool Prison under torture. NEWS - NEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:29:50 +0100 http://ayahra.org/en//content/view/698/26/   According to reports by “Human Rights and Democracy in Iran” the defenseless prisoners of Ghezalhesar prison are kept outside during heavy snowfalls and storms in temperatures below zero.During daily hours, these prisoners of Ghezalhesar are forced to go out from their cells to the prison yards from 7:30am till lunch time and once again after the lunch hours.The ill, elderly and those incapable of walking are not allowed to stay in their cells and are forced to be outside during extreme weather conditions where many suffer frostbite.Those prisoners who are incapable of leaving their cells are forced out and later transferred to the section 8 where they are being brutally beaten up by prison guards NEWS - NEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:27:53 +0100 http://ayahra.org/en//content/view/697/26/ increasingly effective firewall (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/iran-begins-blocking-access-to-gmail-other-sites/2012/02/09/gIQAlZ0i1Q_blog.html). But recently the software, which allowed him and millions of other Iranians to go online through portals elsewhere in the world, stopped working. When it sporadically returns, speeds are so excruciatingly slow that sites such as Facebook and Balatarin.com (http://www.balatarin.com/) – which evaluates unofficial news and rumors in Farsi — become unusable. “There has been a change,” said Maysam, who spoke on the condition his last name not to be used out of fear of being summoned by Iran’s cyber police (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-cyber-police-cite-us-threat/2011/10/27/gIQA1yruSM_story.html). “It seems that the authorities are increasingly getting the upper hand online.” NEWS - NEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:17:10 +0100 http://ayahra.org/en//content/view/696/26/   Javad Lari’s lawyer Manijeh Mohmmadi said in an interview with Human Rights House of Iran that the Supreme Court recently overturned the death sentence and sent it back to the lower court, resulting in the new sentence of 2 years in prison.Mr. Lari’s lawyer who has been representing him for over 2 years while he has been behind bars with a death sentence, said that her client could be released within the next 24 hours.On September 16, 2009, agents from the Intelligence Ministry arrested Javad Lari at his workplace. On July 2010, Judge Salavati presiding over Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced Mr. Lari to death.After Branch 32 of the Supreme Court overturned the ruling, Judge Salavati presiding over Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court re-issued Javad Lari’s death sentence and the case went back to the Supreme Court a second time for further review. The Supreme Court struck down the death penalty again and a lower court reduced the sentence to 2 years behind bars.The charges against Javad Lari stemmed from a visit he made to Iraq in 2008 in an unsuccessful attempt to visit some of his old friends. This trip prompted the authorities to accuse him of being connected with the Mujahedin-e Khalq party (MEK), which Mr. Lari and his lawyers have vehemently denied. NEWS - NEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:05 +0100 http://ayahra.org/en//content/view/695/26/ Dosh (http://doshdu.fr/) and the Sri Lankan online newspaper Lanka-e News (http://lankaenews.rsf.org/). We urge Internet users all over the world to create more mirrors of these sites in an act of solidarity. NEWS - NEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:11:33 +0100