Thursday, September 28, 2006

بحران‌‏هاي كارگري كردستان را جدي بگيريد

هشدار به مسوولان : بحران‌‏هاي كارگري كردستان را جدي بگيريد صنايع نساجي كردستان در آستانه يك بحران!!
سنندج- خبرگزاري كار ايرانگزارش: اقبال رضايي-سنندج:در شرايطي كه بيكاري در كردستان به يك معضل جدي تبديل شده‌‏, ركود كارخانه ها و روند اخراج كارگران دغدغه اصلي مسوولان است . به گزارش خبرنگار ايلنا از مركز سنندج , ركود فعلي كارخانه‌‏هاي نساجي كردستان به يكي از مشكلات اصلي مسوولان استان ظرف چند ماه اخير تبديل شده و تحصن‌‏ها و تجمع‌‏هاي اعتراضي كارگران , نشان از نگراني آنان از آينده شغلي‌‏اشان است . مديريت نساجي كردستان ظرف دو سال گذشته 450 تن از كارگران خود را اخراج كرده و به رغم اعتراضات گسترده , هيچ مسوولي پاسخگوي اين وضع نمي‌‏باشد و اين در حالي است كه مديريت شركت در پي اعتراض‌‏هاي اخير كارگران اخراجي , حكم اخراج 13 نفر ديگر را صادر مي‌‏كند!اخراج كارگران در شرايطي صورت مي‌‏گيرد كه مديران اين واحد نساجي در نشست‌‏هاي مكرر با مسوولان استان‌‏, تعهد داده‌‏اند كه اخراج شاغلان اين واحد متوقف شود

/مترو به قلب نصف جهان مي‌زند؟!/‌‌١٤

‌‌١٤ طه هاشمي:‌ اصفهان بدون آثاري مانند چهارباغ چيزي ندارد كه آوازه‌ي جهان باشد

اعتراض كارگران كارخانه‌ي چيت‌سازي تهران به‌ پرداخت نشدن طولاني حقوق خود

اعتراض كارگران كارخانه‌ي چيت‌سازي تهران به‌ پرداخت نشدن طولاني حقوق خود
كارگران كارخانه‌ چيت‌سازي تهران به‌دنبال پرداخت نشدن يك‌ساله‌ي حقوق‌ومزايا و حق بيمه‌ي خود، امروز دست به اعتراض زدند. نماينده‌ي كارگران معترض كارخانه چيت‌سازي تهران كه با خبرنگار كار و اشتغال خبرگزاري . . . ادامه خبر

Human Rights Watch: U.S. Congress Should Reject Detainee Bill

Human Rights Watch: U.S. Congress Should Reject Detainee Bill -
In its immediate practical impact, the most damaging of the bill’s provisions is clearly its “court-stripping” provision, which would bar detainees in U.S. custody anywhere around the world from challenging the legality of their detention or their treatment via habeas corpus actions, even if they have been subjected to torture. 9/28/06

Amnesty International: Iranian women at risk of execution by stoning

Amnesty International: Iranian women at risk of execution by stoning -

Parisa Akbari was arrested in April 2004, while working as a prostitute in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran. She confessed to the charge of adultery during the preliminary investigations, claiming that she had been forced into prostitution by her husband due to the family’s poverty. 9/28/

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

IRAN: Continuing crackdown against peaceful critics - Amnesty International is greatly concerned by new arrests and detentions in Iran targeting human

IRAN: Continuing crackdown against peaceful critics -
Amnesty International is greatly concerned by new arrests and detentions in Iran targeting human rights activists, minority community activists and others peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association. 9/26/06

IFJ: Crackdown On Media In Iran Continues - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned by news journalists in Iran have bee

IFJ: Crackdown On Media In Iran Continues -
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned by news journalists in Iran have been placed under more pressure by government statements that imply journalists who travel overseas are engaged in spying. 9/26/06

Iran: Former M.P. Akbar Mousavi Khoini Tortured to 'Repent' for His Criticisms - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamene'i, should immediately order the un

Iran: Former M.P. Akbar Mousavi Khoini Tortured to 'Repent' for His Criticisms -

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamene'i, should immediately order the unconditional release of Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, a former member of parliament and critic of Iranian detention practices, Human Rights Watch said today. 9/26/06

Father's sacrifice زندگی پدری که فرزندش در عراق علیرغم میلش نکه داشته شده است

Stewart Bell, National PostPublished: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
A National Post investigation has found the outlawed terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq recruited teenagers in Canada and sent them abroad to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Today, part three of a five-part series about a Canadian family that got deeply involved with the guerrillas -- and now regrets it.
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At 11 o'clock in the morning on June 19, 2003, Mustafa Mohammady stopped his car on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, opened the driver's door and headed toward the French embassy.
He held a gasoline canister in one hand and a lighter in the other.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=eb5a4184-ebee-4e44-93ce-b9b8485efa33&k=51167

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Children of 'the resistance'


Children of 'the resistance'

Canadian teens recruited in plot to overthrow Iranian government
A National Post investigation has found the banned terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq recruited teens...

داستان غیر انسانی بردن نو جوانان از کانادا به عراق
Stewart Bell, National PostPublished: Saturday, September 23, 2006
A National Post investigation has found the banned terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq recruited teens in Canada and sent them abroad to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Today, we begin a five-part series about a Canadian family that got deeply involved with the guerrillas -- and now regrets it.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

به پناهندگان در کمپ آمریکائی اشرف کمک کنید/مصاحبه نیاز سلیمی با رادیو فردا


http://www.radiofarda.com/iran_archive/09a13447-1fbd-4bc3-80ae-3967f4b9d5e0.html#09a13447-1fbd-4bc3-80ae-3967f4b9d5e0

Saturday, September 16, 2006



كانون انديشه ، گفتكوو‌حقوق بشر در ايران -تورنتو

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Centre for Thought, Dialogue & Human Rights in Iran – Toronto
C.T.D.H.R.




September 12, 2006



Re: The report on systematic violation of Human Rights in MKO /NCRI Camp )Ashraf( ـin Iraq



Based on the documents, and testimonies of some former MKO members and their immediate families, the majority of the residents of Camp Ashraf are denied contact with the outside world and their families are banned from visiting them. Recently the Iraqi Government does not even issue visas to those families who hope to visit their relatives in this camp.

As a Human Rights Organization we have been working closely with some families whose children are forcibly kept inside the camp and denied the contact with their parents or leave the camp. In many cases when these families eventually managed to contact their children, they were accompanied by a guard and never alone. For instance, Somaye Mohammdi daughter of Mustafa, was 17 years old when she was taken to Washington, US and then flew to Jordan with a group of youth under the false offer of a month trip to visit Iraq and Jordan. According to Mustafa Mohammadi, her father, MKO authorities seized Somaye’s travel documents in Jordan and never returned them back to her.

In 2004, when Somaye Mohammadi , was interviewed by the delegates of the Canadian Embassy from Jordan at Camp Ashraf, at her request (the copy of her letter in Farsi is attached) Mr. Behzad Safari, the person in charge of judiciary of Camp Ashraf, did not leave Somaye alone throughout the interview although he was asked by the Canadian authorities to do so. Ignoring the fact that the Canadians assured him that there is no need for his presence as they have their own interpreter, Mr. Safari refused to leave and continued monitoring the process that resulted in Someye not being able to speak freely. (A copy of the report by Canadian Embassy is also attached)

In many occasions, these young people are pressured to reject their families and refuse to talk to them out of fear of being labeled as disloyal and agents of the Iranian government and subjected to the routine consequences.

Unfortunately two youths whose name was in the report are dead. The recent case of suicide of Mr. Yaser Akbari Nasab Far, who was a member of MKO and was brought to Iraq form Germany along with his brother, Mossa Akbari Nasab Far, when he was under16, is a clear example of this situation. Yaser, whose numerous requests for leaving the camp/organization have been ignored, finally committed suicide by setting himself on fire sometimes in August 2006. When the MKO officially announced the incident on September 11, 2006, after over a month delay, they claimed that Yaser took his own life in protest to the conditions caused by the U.S. control of the Ashraf.

In addition to the unjustifiable delay in the release of the news by MKO, regarding Yaser’s death, there are other facts surrounding this situation that should be a matter of serious concern for the Human Rights organizations.

There are other reports about similar situations, suicides, from inside the camp mostly for the same reason of not being able to contact with friends/families and lose of hope about gaining the freedom ever again. The recent death of Ms. Faezeh Akbarian, 21 year old, that was explained by the MKO as heart attack is an indication of a cover up attempt in the absence of official inquiries.

The system of control hence reward/punish is so ruthless that even in death divides and categorizes the members as “Us” and “Others”. While in the suicide case of Neda Hassani in 2003, when she set herself on fire, to protest the arrest of Mrs. Marayam Rajavi in France, she was called a hero and a true "Mojahed" by MKO, but the organization refused to publicly acknowledge that Mr. Yaser Akbari Nasab Far being even a member. These methods are employed in order to discourage the expression of disagreement and desire to leave by the residents of the camp.

As we expressed in the past, systematic violation of Universal Human Rights protocol, especially articles 1, 3, 5,6, 7, 9,10,18, 19,20 and 29, is taking place in this camp that is run with no regards for international laws or accountability on its leadership’s part. There are countless reports coming out of these camps, especially the American camp a.k.a. TIPF, with indication of all sort of violations that includes names and dates. Specific incidents including cases of sexual abuse yet people do not feel safe to openly testify against the organization and the situation as long as they have to remain there with no protection from united nations and free countries outside.

There has also been the case of this young Canadian citizen who was forcibly kept in the camp between 2000 and 2004 and was rescued only due to the perseverance of his family. Recently, when this young man visited Netherlands in the company of his father, he was arrested at the Airport in Amsterdam by the request of the German authorities and spent two days in prison before being deported to Canada. The reason for this frustrating incident was the fact that MKO used his legal papers, that were confiscated upon his arrival in the camp, to move members in Europe. This young man was 15 at that time which makes his affiliation with a militant organization against all the International protocols of the Child’s Rights.

This young man was able to provide the names of 90 youngsters who have been taken to Iraq, while under 17 years old. There are also reports that claims around 900 teenagers have been taken to Iraq between 1997-1999. All the teens were trained for four months in Ashraf for operation inside Iran. So many of them have participated in the military operation inside Iran when they were under 18 years old.
During training period all their belongings including pictures of their families were confiscated and there was no contact with family members at all.

We, at the C.T.D.H.R., are also in the possession of copies of videos, provided by the families of these kids, that were taken from the parties held for these teenagers by the MKO officials at the nights of their sentence to Iraq from Canada or US. In one video, that is the goodbye party of Majid Zabeti a14 year old whose father and mother were killed in Iran in 1982, and his 14 year old friend Mohammad Reza Mohadessin, son of the spoke person of MKO, you can see all these underage kids being showered by gifts and encouragement from the adult members of the MKO.

There is more than hundred hours of videos, many pictures and other documents available to support the claims made by our Centre on behalf of these families.

The following names are some of those who were taken to Iraq, while under 18, and the majority of them are willing to leave Iraq:

Boys:

1. Mustafa (Mohammad) Rajavi, son of the leader of MKO Masoud rajavi. He has, unsuccessfully, tried to escape Ashraf in 2003. Mustafa and two other friends took an " Aifa" Truck at night and hit the fence and tried to climb on the roof of the truck to jump over the fence but Mustafa was arrested due to him being under surveillance.

2. Amir Vafa Yaghmaei was a citizen of Sweden. He was able to leave Ashraf after 2 years with help of Swedish government. His father, Mr. Esmaeil vafa yaghmaei was so loyal to Mr. Rajavi at NCRI that he ignored several requests by his own son, who was 16 when sent to Iraq, and refused to help him. Amir was abused inside Ashraf and also in US Camp, TIPF, for almost 2 years.

3. Hanif Nourbaksh, Hanif was 15 years and a citizen of USA who was taken to Iraq in1999. During his first month he claimed, " I am US citizen and want to return to US” which was ignored. One day he started running naked around the base ( artesh 1) but was caught by Mahmoud Ghaemshahr and Afshin Faraji, Head of the commandos, and beaten in front of many eyewitnesses. After that frightening incident he kept quite foe a while then one morning in the holy month Ramada of 1999 his voice was heard again as he was screaming under beatings for writing anti Rajavi slogan on the walls of resting area in the camp. Hanif was sent back to U.S. later that year.

4. Alireza Bagheri (Cartoonist), He was under 16 when sent to camp from Germany. He is still in Iraq and waiting for his release. He was punished two times for his satire. One time he draw a cartoon of Masoud Rajavi on podium .

5. Hooman Mohammadi, currently he is in Sweden since he had Swedish citizenship.

6. Hanif Emami, taken from Norway
7. Reza Chavooshi, taken from Germany
8. Sian Ghabeli
9. Ehsan Eghbal, Son of Erfan/ France
10. Taher Eghbal, Son of Erfan/France
11. Masoud Salami, US
12. Amir Pakbaz
13. Saeed Pakbaz (Turkey)
14. Mohammad Baraei
15. Mesbah Taheri
16. Hamid Reza Sanobari
17. Hanif Shahsavandi
18. Sharif Shahsavandi, Son of Shohreh Einoalyaghin
19. Mohammd Satari
20.Yaser Hajian, Germany
21. Amir Nazari
22. Ahmad Haj Ahmadi
23.Yaser Haj Mohammadi
24. Naser Kalhor, Germany
25. Naser Ghafori, Germany
26. Hanif Mojtahed Zade, US
27. Kambiz Dakhah
28. Kamran Dadkhah
29. Ali Kalbi, Germany
30. Mazaher Kalbi, Germany
31. Saeed Sedagahty
32. Masoud Sedaghty
33. Mohsen Momeni, Geramny
34. Mehran Karim Radi
35. Ashakn Rafi, Turkey
36. Pezhman rafiei, Turkey
37. Ezat Heydari, Turkey
38. Hosein Maleki
39. Majid Amini (Siavoush Seyfi)
40. Mustafa Mirmohammadi
41. Hamid Gahnbari
42. Mosa Gahnbari
43. Mahmod Gahnbari, Son of Mahin
44. Mossa Emad Zade, Mossa carried the poster of Rajavi in the Football Stadium in Franc during Olympic Football
45. Rozbeh Emad Zade
46. Mehrdad Khoshkalam
47. Alborze Khoshkalam
48. Sadegh Voshagh, Germany
49. Majid Hanif Nezhad
50 . Alireza Asad Zadeh
51. Alireza Hosieni
52. Ezat Heudari, Turkey
53. Majid Anini
54. Majid Zabeti, Ottawa/Canada
55. Mohammad Reza Mohadesin, Ottawa/Canada
56. Mohamad reza Torabi, Ottawa /Canada
57. Yasser Akbari Nasab Far, He committed suicide in Asharf on August 2006.
58. Mossa Akbari Nasab Far
59. Hanif Kafaei 16 years , / Hanif's father was killed before 2003 Invasion of Iraq . He was taken from France - Rajavi's Residence. Jalal Taghi Zadeh whose is step father is one the MKO's authorities .
60. Mojtaba Zabeti Germay
61. Mostafa Zabeti Germany


Girls:

1. Aseye 13 years old who was under the care of " Raziye " In San Francisco, US. When she was leaving from Washington to go to Iraq she took a knapsack full of dolls with herself.

2. Fereshte Khalili, 13 years old. At the time of her departure she was crying and was not willing to leave US. Her father was killed in Iraq but she was not informed about his death.

3. Elham Kia Manesh, 18 years old US citizen
4. Elham Zanjani, 18 years old Canadian Citizen

Both Elhams were given the task of throwing eggs at President Khatami when he was attending UN meeting. F.B.I. arrested both and a few other girls. They were released on bail and condition not to leave Washington. MKO told Elaham M. and Elham Z. that since there is not enough money to hire lawyers for them they better fly to Iraq for a while till the case is dismissed. Elaham Zanjani and Elahm Kia Manesh both are still in Ashraf and afraid to ask to be sent back to US due to the case and the possibility of prosecution by F.B.I.

6. Somaye Mohammadi, 17 years, daughter of Mustafa Mohammdi . She was a Canadian immigrant but she lost her status since MKO did not allow her to follow up her citizenship application. Currently Somaye is stateless without any proper documents.

7. Zoha Soltani, She was adopted by Mrs. Khanlari .They kept her in Canada
8. MahVan Etemadi, 16 years Old /Canada
9. Naderh Afshar, 15 years old Toronto /Canada/ She was under care by Naghi Shafiei and Mina Aslan Pour
12. Homa … she was with Nadereh Toronto, Canada
13. Bita, daughter of Safa 14 years old /Canada-
14. Maryam 16 years old taken our from L.A., US.
15. Zolal …. 17 years old Washington, D.C. Zolal was under care oh her aunt who was agisnt MKO decision to take her to Iraq.


The well planned transfer of the teenage girls and boys in 1997-1998 who were mostly sent out of Iraq in 1991, during Persian Gulf War (Kuwait War), for the claimed reason of their safety was against the parents will at the time. The majority of these kids were sent to the EU and North America in 1991 by using false documentation therefore no legal adaptation process have been followed in any country of destination for these kids. When the kids where decided to return to Iraq, once again, illegal and forged documents were used by the MKO hence no clear traces of these transactions exist.

The unfortunate incident of Yaser Akbari Nasab Far’s suicide is the most recent cry for help, and also an alarming sign that is coming out of this camp, which is located in the middle of a war zone, in outskirts of Baghdad and operates with total disregard for International or any state laws.

The immediate attention of all the International Humanitarian Organizations is required in order to prevent another tragic incident such as the recent suicides or even bigger catastrophic possibility such as the hand over of all the residents of this camp to the Iranian authorities as publicly announced by the Iraqi government.




Saeed Soltanpour


Coordinator

CC: UNHRC _ Madam Louis Arbour
Amnesty International
International Committee of Red Cross
Human Right Watch
UN Secretary General _ Mr. Kofi Annan
Reporters without Border
Members of Parliament -Canada


Thursday, September 14, 2006

prtoest agaisnt provocation of Genocide by Toronto Sun

گناه زن زاده شدن



گناه زن زاده شدن؟

با وجودى كه بسيارى قرن بيست و يكم را قرن زنان مى‌نامند اما هنوز حتى پيشرفته ترين كشورها نيز با تساوى حقوقى و اجتماعى ميان زن و مرد فاصله‌اى جدى دارند. اين عدم تساوى در كشورهاى رو به توسعه يا داراى فرهنگ مذهبى به مراتب بيشتر است. مطالعه‌اى در پاكستان نشان می‌دهد كه افسردگى و انزوا در زنان پاكستانى به خاطر احساس گناه از زن زاده شدن رو به افزايش است. آيا در ايران هم زنان چنين احساسى دارند؟

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Iran: Government press commission closes three publications for indefinite period

Iran: Government press commission closes three publications for indefinite period - Reporters Without Borders today firmly condemned the closure of three leading reformist newspapers for an indefinite period. "This wave of censorship is totally unacceptable," the press freedom organisation said. "Political repression is now compounding the judicial harassment that Iran's journalists have been undergoing in recent weeks." 9/13/06

When rockets and phosphorous cluster

When rockets and phosphorous cluster
By Meron Rapoport"In Lebanon, we covered entire villages with cluster bombs, what we did there was crazy and monstrous," testifies a commander in the Israel Defense Forces' MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) unit. Quoting his battalion commander, he said the IDF fired some 1,800 cluster rockets on Lebanon during the war and they contained over 1.2 million cluster bombs. The IDF also used cluster shells fired by 155 mm artillery cannons, so the number of cluster bombs fired on Lebanon is even higher. At the same time, soldiers in the artillery corps testified that the IDF used phosphorous shells, which many experts say is prohibited by international law. According to the claims, the overwhelming majority of the weapons mentioned were fired during the last ten days of the war. The commander