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United For Iran

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:53:30 +0000

On July 25, stand in solidarity with the Iranian people

Join this unprecedented wave of global citizen activism for the people of Iran. On July 25, participate in an event in one of more than 50 cities around the world.

I’m going to Dusseldorf to take part in the rally there. I’ll try to post the updates live in my Twitter page, follow me if you’re interested. Today I set my mobile to be able to send news live from the rally.

The March 18 Movement

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:25:47 +0000

The March 18 Movement was born out of a tragedy. On this day in 2009, Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger and journalist, died in Evin Prison in Tehran. The December before his death, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Omid Reza was the first blogger to die in prison and his death reveals that getting censored is far from the worst thing that can happen to a blogger. Join the March 18 Movement, created in his memory, to prevent this from happening to other bloggers in the future.
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President Obama’s challenge: the first 100 day’s

Ali — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:16:52 +0000

Finally we can call him president Obama. The first 100 days will not be easy for him as there are a lot of challenges on the way.
Amnesty international in a campaign called “100 days”, is asking Obama to meet the challenge and take concrete steps to counter terror with justice in his first 100 days in office. It seems that he is taking steps as he has stopped all the Guantanamo trials to review the tribunal process as one of his first official acts in the white house.
Watch the video spot for this campaign here and join this campaign here.

Gaza Crisis: Stop the killing of innocent civilians

Ali — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:51:36 +0000

Unfortunately the new year started with another crisis. Amnesty international UK is urging the UK Government to take a lead and call for an immediate, comprehensive humanitarian truce to allow desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered civilian population, evacuation of the wounded and safe refuge for civilians wishing to flee the conflict zone. You can help by sending a message to UK government or by donating some money. See here for more details

60th anniversary of our rights

Ali — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:08:07 +0000

Today is the 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. All over the world people are celebrating this day. This video is made by Amnesty International UK with the message “You are powerful on protect the human”.

Human rights for China

Ali — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:12:18 +0000

With 100 days to go until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today (30 April) launched the first in a series of four hard-hitting animated films highlighting human rights abuses linked to the Chinese authorities’ hosting of the Games, in particular the risks of peacefully protesting in China. Watch the first animation here:

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Waterboarding

Ali — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:00:29 +0000

A while ago I wrote about Amnesty Internationals campaign against Torture, Unsubscribe-Me. Amnesty is now launching a series of short effective films in order to spread the human rights message.
First add of these series is against waterboarding, a method that is used by the CIA in the “war against terror”. This is ‘The film the CIA doesn’t want you to see’. This film will be on 50 UK cinema screens from 5th of May.
Help spreading the word, by showing the video to your friends, posting it on your weblog/webpages or linking to it. You can also Unsubscribe yourself.
Warning: the video contains shocking content!

Iranian blogosphere – Day for Darfur

Ali — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:37:08 +0000

New York times has a report about the Iranian blogosphere entitled: “Iranian Blogosphere Tests Government’s Limits“. The article refers to a research done in Harvard’s Law school that mapped Iran’s online public (See the resulting map here). The research and the report are both interesting. I have also translated part of them to Persian in my Persian blog.
It’s been five years. Five years of bloodshed and displacement. Five years of fear and dread, and for children aged five and younger, war is all they’ve known. Since April five years ago, more than 200,000 have died and more than 2.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in this vast region to the west of Sudan. Tomorrow there will be the day for Darfur in the UK.

Every Human has Rights

Ali — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:07:53 +0000

2008 is the 60^th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human rights.The Elders say that the government have been signing this declaration for the past 60 years but now you have the chance to sign it in Every Human Has Rights website. You can read a plain language version of the declaration in this homepage and be one of those who sign and join this campaign.
The Hub, the media site specialized for human rights, is also working with Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital data bank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video.

Sixth “anniversary” of Guantanamo

Ali — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:03:38 +0000

Amnesty marks sixth ‘anniversary’ of Guantanamo with prison cell protest outside US embassy
Today was the sixth “anniversary” of Guantanamo prison opening, Amnesty International organized protests in London, Belfast in front of the US embassy to call for closure of this prison.