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. | Mr. Shadi is in Sarab prison now for his last years case which he was charged for being involved in mass demonstrations in Azerbaijan. He was sentenced to 6 month. He was allowed to have his days reduced after 30 days but he is still waiting for decision from prison managers.
The 1 extra day added to his 3 months shows that the judge does not want him to be allowed to appeal or even to have his charges rejected by another judge! |
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. | The infamous “Mykonos Operation,” which shone an unprecedented light on the Islamic republic’s campaign to assassinate critics in the Iranian-exile community and sparked a diplomatic crisis between Europe and Iran, is back in the headlines. Some 15 years after Iranian agents killed three top members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and one of their supporters in a Berlin restaurant, Germany on December 10 released and deported two of the crime’s masterminds. |
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. | pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
There was stunning evidence to support the allegations, |
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. | Fatmir Sejdiu, speaking at a ceremonial tree-lighting in the provincial capital, Pristina, said: “We’re only a few days away from Kosovo’s final act of independence which will receive international blessing and the blessing of our friends, the US, EU and other democratic countries.”
Kosovo Albanian leaders have been careful not to say |
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. | Pushed by the Democratic-led Congress but also supported by many Republicans, the bill was aimed at providing health insurance to about 10 million children in low- and moderate-income families. Taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products would have been increased to pay for the aid. |
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. | “No officials have the right to mix religion with emotions and issue decrees and implement them on behalf of clerics,” clerical MP Seyed Hadi Tabatabai told the reformist Etemad newspaper. “Such behaviour tarnishes Islam.”
The police last week launched what was termed a “winter” crackdown on unIslamic dressing, to follow an unusually vigorous summer drive against women whose clothing was deemed overly flimsy. |
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. | They are attempting to annihilate all the instruments for preserving and developing the cultural and historical heritage of them. This is part of their plan to uproot the Iranian Turks.
The UNESCO General Conference recognized in its 1991 resolution on “promotion of press, freedom in the world” that a free pluralistic and independent press is an essential component of any democratic society. Due to the |