Thursday, May 31, 2007

violation of human rigths by police in Iran













Following images are self-explanatory samples of a sad reality of a society in which the law enforcement legislated by a Islamic rules feel free to act as a Judicial element to deliver their self decided penalties in middle of street.
Inhuman treatment of arrested and handcuffed individual and public police brutality uprising by Islamic regime making the deep gap between people and regime to its highest extend.

Does the world really need such a theocracy be exported to serve more foreign counties?

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Rumsfeld's role in Iraq 'was criminal'

Rumsfeld's role in Iraq 'was criminal'
http://archive.gulfnews.com/world/Australia/10127218.html
05/22/2007 11:10 PM AP
Canberra: Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war verged on criminal negligence, a former Australian army lawyer-turned-political hopeful said yesterday.
Colnel Mike Kelly, who ended a 20-year military career last week to run as an opposition candidate at federal elections later this year, gave his first television interview about his experiences in Iraq to Australian Broadcasting Corp-oration (ABC).
Kelly, who was among the most senior Australian officers in Iraq during 2003 and 2004, was scathing of Rumsfeld's role.
"If I look at people like Donald Rumsfeld, all I can say is, that verges on criminal negligence," Kelly told the ABC of Rumsfeld's failure to acknowledge problems in Iraq.
Kelly - an expert on the law of occupation and peacemaking operations with experience in Somalia, Bosnia and East Timor - said he offered a plan to stop looting and protect infrastructure soon after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain was toppled. "We knew exactly what needed to be done," Kelly told the ABC.
Flawed approach
"Then Rumsfeld came in and overruled that concept and basically threw it out the window and that was where things really started to go wrong," he said.
Kelly described disbanding the Iraqi army as "a tragic mistake" which turned thousands of former soldiers against the coalition.
He also accused the US and Australia - which along with Britain contributed troops to the US-led invasion - of ignoring warnings of human rights abuses in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
Kelly, 47, has become a candidate for the centre-left Labor Party, which has vowed to bring home Australian combat troops from Iraq if it wins elections late this year.
There are almost 1,600 Australian troops in and around Iraq.
Prime Minister John Howard, a close ally of US President George W. Bush, has pledged to keep Australian troops in Iraq as long as they are needed.

Amnesty International Report 2007: Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world -

Amnesty International Report 2007: Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world - Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual assessment of human rights worldwide. 5/23/07

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Stop Deportation of Behnood Saadatkhani




9251 Yonge St. #219
Richmond Hill, ON L4C 9T3
Canada

www.ctdhr.org

Centre for Thought, Dialogue & Human Rights?-Toronto
C.T.D.H.R.



May 15, 07



The Hon. Stockwell Day

Minister of Public Safety

House of CommonsOttawa, Canada K1A 0A6
FAX:(613) 995-1154

Dear Hon. Day

RE: Deportation of Behnood Saadatkhani

We request you to authorize Behnood Saadatkhani who had been ordered to go back to Iran on May 7, 07. Behnnod to stay in Canada since he needs medical treatment .

Behnnod is suffering from Schizophrenia and needs treatment. He is kept for several months at the detention center in Ottawa. Because of his illness he obviously can't recognize the consequences of his deportation. He is not capable of making the right decisions on his own. So he needs discipline, authority, --- and guidance. So, he needs help to improve his life style and decisions in the near future.

Behnood came to Canada with his mother and smaller brother when he was 12 years old in 1996.
Behnood was raised here for the last 11 years. He is not familiar with the language and the culture of Iran, he would suffer badly if he is sent back. If you send him back to Iran, he is done, --- he is finished.
Behnood 's mother and brother are Canaan citizen.

We request you to meet Behnood 's mother who has been working long hours on a minimum to support his family in last decade.
Please stop deportation order to give his family a chance to treat Behnood . As a free society we feel obligation to help those who needs our help in order to make a better and safer society.

Thank you for you concerns.


Yours truly



Saeed Soltanpour
Coordinator



CC: Persian and Canadian Media
Mr. Dion, Liberal Leader
Mr. Layton, NDp Leader
Mr. Michael Parsa, President of Richmond Hill PC Association