Persian2English <http://persian2english.com/> Breaking the Language Barrier on Human Rights <http://persian2english.com/?page_id=5727> Death Crimes by Islamic Republic of Iran Spark Protests in AfghanistanJanuary 30, 2011
Ethnic Minorities <http://persian2english.com/?cat=3276> | Execution & Torture <http://persian2english.com/?cat=16> | Human Rights<http://persian2english.com/?cat=2887>| International <http://persian2english.com/?cat=834> | Opposition<http://persian2english.com/?cat=836>| Persecution of Ethnic Minorities <http://persian2english.com/?cat=3275> | Prisoners & Their Families <http://persian2english.com/?cat=23> * <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/38.jpg>KABUL, January 29, 2011 (AFP)<http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/987211/International/2/20/2> * Around a thousand protesters took to the streets of three main Afghanistan cities on Saturday to protest against the alleged execution of Afghan citizens by Iran. The biggest rally was in western Herat, Afghanistans second city, where about a thousand people marched in the centre of town carrying banners with anti-Iran slogans, an AFP correspondent said. More than a hundred people gathered in the capital Kabul, while there was also a demonstration in Mazar-e-Sharif, the main city in the countrys north. The protesters, chanting death slogans to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for an end to the executions of Afghans as well as Iranians by Tehran. The protesters did nit give details on any specific executions they were protesting against. No Iranian sources or officials commented on the execution reports. We demand the Iranian regime immediately stops the execution of Afghans and Iranian, said 23-year-old Massoud, a resident of Herat. If Afghan citizens commit a crime, they should be tried in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shoaib, a protester in the city of Mazar-e- Sharif, told AFP. Several anti-Iranian demonstrations have taken place in Afghanistan recently after Iran blocked 1,600 fuel tankers from entering the country in early December, causing the fuel prices to soar. Afghan officials said at the time Tehran had expressed concern that the tankers were going to be used to supply NATO forces fighting a Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. About 400 tankers have been allowed to cross into Afghanistan after Iran partly opened its border on January 18, Afghan deputy Commerce minister, Mohammad Sharif Sharifi, told AFP. But the border is still not fully open, he added. ** ** ** ** *January 29, 2011: Protest against the Islamic Republic of Iran in Herat, Aghanistan.* *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lzL8zPQoM&feature=player_embedded* *Photos of protests in Herat and Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan* [Show as slideshow] <http://persian2english.com/?p=19590&show=slide> [View with PicLens] [image: 1] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/1.jpg> [image: 10] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/10.jpg> [image: 11] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/11.jpg> [image: 12] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/12.jpg> [image: 13] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/13.jpg> [image: 14] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/14.jpg> [image: 15] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/15.jpg> [image: 16] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/16.jpg> [image: 17] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/17.jpg> [image: 18] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/18.jpg> [image: 19] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/19.jpg> [image: 2] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/2.jpg> [image: 20] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/20.jpg> [image: 21] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/21.jpg> [image: 22] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/22.jpg> [image: 23] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/23.jpg> [image: 24] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/24.jpg> [image: 25] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/25.jpg> [image: 26] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/26.jpg> [image: 27] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/27.jpg> [image: 28] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/28.jpg> [image: 29] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/29.jpg> [image: 3] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/3.jpg> [image: 30] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/30.jpg> [image: 31] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/31.jpg> [image: 32] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/32.jpg> [image: 33] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/33.jpg> [image: 34] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/34.jpg> [image: 35] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/35.jpg> [image: 36] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/36.jpg> [image: 37] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/37.jpg> [image: 38] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/38.jpg> [image: 4] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/4.jpg> [image: 5] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/5.jpg> [image: 6] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/6.jpg> [image: 7] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/7.jpg> [image: 8] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/8.jpg> [image: 9] <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/gallery/afghan/9.jpg> HEADLINES <http://persian2english.com/?p=19565> Zahra Bahrami Executed, Another Victim of Iranian Regimes Political Game<http://persian2english.com/?p=19565> January 29, 2011 Zahra Bahrami, the Iranian-Dutch citizen arrested during the 2009 Ashura protests (December 27, 2009), was hanged today. Zahra Bahrami was executed even though her second case file with political charges was still opened and unresolved. <http://persian2english.com/?p=19587> AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | Two men executed; four at risk of execution <http://persian2english.com/?p=19587> January 29, 2011 Document Iran: Further information: Two men executed; four at risk of execution. PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY in Persian, English, or your own language. <http://persian2english.com/?p=19584> Dutch Government Froze Contacts with Iran after Death of Zahra Bahrami <http://persian2english.com/?p=19584> January 29, 2011 The Dutch government froze official contacts with Iran on Saturday to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman, the Foreign Ministry said. =-----------------------------\ http://free-them-now.blogspot.com/ 29th Jan 2011: Global Day of Action against executions and in support of political prisoners in Iran To trade unions around the world! In the past few weeks, the Islamic regime in Iran has dramatically stepped up the arrest, imprisonment and execution of political activists. There are growing concerns that if the regime is not stopped, it will commit even more horrendous atrocities. Within the first 10 days of 2011 alone, the regime executed nearly 60 people on various charges. Many political activists have received heavy prison sentences, and three have already been executed.* At the same time, the regime has stepped up its persecution of worker activists, dreading protests by workers following the introduction of a programme of austerity and elimination of subsidies. One labour activist, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, worker of a polyethylene pipe-manufacturing company, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years deprivation from social activity. Also, Reza Rakhshan, leader of Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Workers Union, has been imprisoned since late December. Meanwhile, Mansoor Ossanlou, Ebrahim Madadi, Reza Shahabi and Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, of Tehrans bus workers union, are all still in jail for their trade union activities. In protest against this rising wave of executions and persecution, a number of organisations from around the world, which campaign against executions and in support of political prisoners, as well as the Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran, have called for a global day of action on Saturday 29th January. With this letter, we are inviting you to lend your support to this Global Day of Action in every way you can: by publicising the event, joining the protest in a city near you, sending messages of support, speaking at the event, etc. Please let us know of any act of solidarity you are planning in support of this day. Speakers are most welcome. Please bring union banners, placards, etc. Together, we can stop this regime of executioners and worker persecutors! Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran 16 January 2011 *Ali Sarami, Ali Akbar Siadat and, on 15th January, Hossein Khezri ************************************************************************************************************************** Sign Petition Here, please go to the url below: http://workersiniran.org/jworkers/jwork482.php?nr=15426974&lang=en End worker persecutions in Iran! All jailed workers must be released! Arbitrary arrests and detentions, long prison terms, violent interrogations, beatings, even use of lashing to degrade and break down, denial of medical care to sick detainees, constant harassment in the form of court summons, heavy bails and daily threats against workers and their families, and the ultimate weapon of cutting workers off their livelihood by firing them, make up a brutal regime of systematic persecution of labour activists in Iran. We, the undersigned, demand that persecution of workers in Iran and terror and violence against them must stop. Workers in Iran should be able to freely exercise their fundamental right to set up their own organisations, meet, assemble and protest as they wish, take strike action, organise and take part in rallies without fear of being arrested and thrown in jail. At the moment, Mansoor Ossanlou, Ebrahim Madadi and Reza Shahabi, of the Union of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, Ghorban Ahmadi, Ali Akbar Baghani, Hossein Bastani Nejad, Mahmoud Beheshti Langroodi, Rasoul Bodaghi, Mohammad Davari, Alireza Hashemi, Seyyed Hashem Khastar and Abdollah Momeni, of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association, and two other labour activists by the names of Behnam Ebrahimzadeh and Mehdi Farrahi Shandiz continue to be imprisoned in Iran. Another jailed teacher, Mr Abdolreza Ghanbari, has been sentenced to death for taking part in the anti-government demonstrations of 27 December 2009. We demand The immediate and unconditional release of all jailed labour activists in Iran The reinstatement, with all lost pay backdated, of all those dismissed for carrying out legitimate union activity An end to persecution and terrorisation of workers in Iran ********************************************************* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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