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Huffington Post has a very good report with videos and comments about the protests that has been going on yesterday (9th of July) in Tehran.
Zeitoon has also written a nice report (in Persian with photos) about the protests in Tehran yesterday, 9th of July.
The report is titled: We were not afraid as we were together,
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While the Iranian government is repeating in national media that Police and Basiji’s never shoot at protestors and they accuse of foreign countries and protestors of “staging the Killing of Neda” another video captured by citizens has been published on Aljazira television showing the Basiji’s shooting at protestors from the roof of a building.
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20 years after the Tiananmen square protest and subsequent masacure we still don’t know what happened to this brave and defiant man, who stood alone to confront a column of tanks.

Sign the Amnesty International’s campaign and ask the Chinese government to reveal the truth about Tianames square.
If you still haven’t watched the Amazing [...]

I haven’t updated for some time, so I thought I’ll share this amazing performenace on Britain Got talent. Jamie who is a van driver and suffers from stage fright sings Bring him home from Le miserable. I get goosebumps anytime I listen to it! So here is the video (embedding the video is disabled by [...]

Amnesty International has released another short anti-torture ad and asks everybody to join Amnesty to defy torture. The advertisement is really effective. So if you’re not a member of Amnesty International after watching the video think of Joining Amnesty international with as few as 2 Euro’s a month and help defying torture.

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Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently shed light on the mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. What an amazing fish, watch the video and if you want to read more see here.

A friend of mine send me a video documentary in YouTube (Von Göttern und Designern, Christlicher Fundamentalismus part 1) about a School in Germany in which they teach “Intelligent Design” in parallel to Evolution theory. Although they teach both “theories” to children the school teacher says that he believes in creationism and as a result [...]

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”.

I haven’t been writing often here recently partly because of my busy schedule and partly because of the fact that I am writing more often in my Persian blog and have been busy setting up my new Photoblog. Now that the Photoblog is set and running I’ll write here more often
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Beating peaceful protestors does not uphold the Olympics values
Amnesty International (UK) has launched the second video of “Human Rights For China” campaign. They’ve used the viral launch to highlight the case of Huang Qi, a 45 years old cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website and has been detained since 10 June. Huang Qi [...]