Sheryl Saperia
14th October 2015 – The Canadian Jewish News
On September 23rd, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson announced that the Conservatives, if re-elected, would amend the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) to include gross human rights abuses as new grounds for Canadian sanctions against foreign states, entities and individuals. Whoever forms the next federal government should […]
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions
October 14, 2015—A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi to 9 years and 6 months and 99 lashes, and 11 years and 99 lashes, respectively, on charges of “insulting the sacred” for the social criticism expressed in their poetry.
The flogging […]
By Dana Ford, CNN
October 15, 2015
(CNN) At first glance it looks like the set of a James Bond movie — a seemingly impregnable mountain base packed full of uniformed men and sinister-looking missiles on their launch vehicles parked along a long tunnel buried deep underground.
But this is in fact a real-life missile facility in Iran, […]
September 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Iranian-American protesters said Monday that the country’s current regime has executed about 2,000 dissidents in less than two years, making human rights a key issue in U.S.-Iran relations.
Thousands gathered in Dag Hammerskjold Plaza outside the United Nations just as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was to speak to the world […]
July 24, 2015
Bipartisan members of the United States Congress joined a distinguished panel of experts to evaluate U.S. nuclear deal with Iran andexplore policy options going forward. Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield moderated discussions of a distinguished panel of experts which included Ambassador James B Smith (U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2009-2013), Ambassador Joseph DeTrani (Former […]
Surge in Executions for Drug Trafficking
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Iran: Letter to the Secretary General regarding UN assistance for drug enforcement and the death penalty for drug offenses
MAY 26, 2014
Letter
Joint Letter to Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Letter
(London) – The United Nations agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations […]
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. Submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 25/24 to the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015.
Click to Read entire Report (PDF): March 2015 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights […]
Maryam Rajavi to Arab Summit: Coalition against occupation of Yemen should be elevated to evicting Iranian regime from region
Maryam Rajavi, speaks at a conference at the Council of Europe, January 2015
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, reiterated in a statement, on the need for joint action and unity against the religious terrorist […]
Iran regime’s quarter-century planning for occupation of Yemen by its proxies
Monday, 30 March 2015
Following its defeat in the Iran-Iraq war, since a quarter of a century ago, by drawing on its experience in shaping the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian regime planned to take advantage of Yemen’s religious fabric to form a mercenary group in that […]
By the Washington Post Editorial Board
February 5, 2015
THE Obama administration pushes to complete a nuclear accord with Iran, numerous members of Congress, former secretaries of state and officials of allied governments are expressing concern about the contours of the emerging deal. Though we have long supported negotiations with Iran as well as the interim agreement the United […]
