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While the mainstream media has been quick to sing the praises of former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died on Sunday, those involved in the long struggle for human rights and democracy in Iran are far from convinced of […]
While the mainstream media has been quick to sing the praises of former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died on Sunday, those involved in the long struggle for human rights and democracy in Iran are far from convinced of […]
The election of Donald Trump to the United States Presidency has sent shock waves across the world. The future of the Middle East was uncertain before the election outcome. It is even more uncertain now. In relation to Iran, in […]
SEP 2016 Friday 2ND posted by Morning Star in World A CANADIAN-IRANIAN professor jailed in Iran since June has recently been hospitalised and cannot walk, according to her family. Homa Hoodfar, who has rare neurological disease myasthenia gravis, was arrested […]
According to confirmed reports from Iran, at least 20 Sunni prisoners were executed by hanging in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, all of whom were charged with membership or cooperation with “Tohid and Jihad” group. These prisoners were […]
19th June 2016 Press Release For Immediate Use Solidarity organisation, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has expressed grave concern about the deteriorating health of Iranian political prisoner, Jafar Azimzadeh, who has been on hunger […]
4th June 2016 Press Release For Immediate Use Solidarity organisation, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has condemned the recent upsurge in lashings as punishment in Iran. Last week over thirty students in the town […]
1st May 2016 Press Release For Immediate Use Solidarity organisation, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has been overwhelmed by the response to its May Day call to release trade unionists unjustly imprisoned in the […]
1st May 2016 May Day Appeal In January 2016 the Iranian government signed an agreement to observe international conventions and IAEA rules on the development and use nuclear technology. The world public heaved a sigh of relief that a major […]
CODIR calls for an international campaign for the release of Jafar Azimzadeh and Esmail Abdi as they are set to begin their hunger strike on 29th April Esmail Abdi is General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association. […]
11th April 2016 Press Release For Immediate Use Solidarity organisation, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR), has today called for urgent action to defend press freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In particular, CODIR […]