Received from Code Pink--On Sunday December 21st, Iran shut down two human rights centers founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Shirin Ebadi without explanation or written justification. Ebadi was also taken into custody and then later released. Ebadi stated, "The collective activities of the human rights activists in Iran have ( Read more... )

Seven human rights groups including Amnesty International have urged Iran to set aside a prison sentence for women's rights activist Delaram Ali. She was sentenced to 39 months in jail and to be flogged with 10 lashes for the "crime" of participation in a peaceful gathering of women’s rights defenders in June 2006, in Hafte Tir Square, which ended ( Read more... )

From the Washington Blade online ( Read more... )

Musical ambassadors of cross-cultural tolerance and understanding, the innovative Iranian-American musical group نياز Niyaz just spent two days at the University of Maryland, helping to teach a class on ethnomusicology, giving a matinee performance for the students, and tonight a public concert.
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Mass Resistance is the Other Side of Large Scale Oppression ( Read more... )