November 21, 2024

Trump’s targeting of Iran comes as Islamic leaders torture and kill 8,000 protesters

By Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times – Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Iran’s rulers have in icted death by torture and gun re on citizen protesters in a crackdown since the Dec. 28 street uprising erupted, the main opposition group said Tuesday.
The Europe-based National Council of Resistance of Iran says the Islamic republic’s ubiquitous security apparatus […]

Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison

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 […]

Iran Rising for Freedom: US Policy Prospects- March 17, 2011