Green Martyrs

'Murderer Not Found, Accept Blood Money'

A year after the June 12 election coup, and with only few days remaining for the anniversary of the first death related to election protesters in Iran, rather than conducting investigations to identify those who ordered and carried out the murder of protesters, the Iranian government has been pressuring the families of murdered protesters to forego holding memorials for their loved ones.

Amnesty International:

Crackdown on dissent widens; Hundreds unjustly imprisoned

One year on from Iran’s disputed June 2009 presidential election, Amnesty International has documented a widening crackdown on dissent that has left journalists, students, political and rights activists as well as clerics languishing in prisons.

Mother of slain protester

'Release all prisoners and I will Forgive my son's murderers'

Ameneh Khatoon (Parvin) Fahimi is the mother of Sohrab Arabi, a young protester who was murdered in the aftermath of last year’s disputed presidential elections. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, she said that she would forgive the blood of her son on the condition of the release of all political prisoners.

Why now?

Pardon of 81 Political Prisoners sign of Arbitrary Prosecutions

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed today’s pardon of 81 political prisoners by Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Khamanei as a positive sign but said the gesture amounted to an explicit admission that the prisoners had been wrongfully prosecuted, and called for the immediate release of approximately 450 other prisoners convicted or sentenced on the basis of their political beliefs

Video: 'Murderer!'

The following footages shown on Al-Arabiya show Members of the European Parliament calling Ahmadinejad's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki a "murderer" as he was visiting the EP on Tuesday 1 June 2010.

400 IUST students protest

Students at the Iran University of Science and Technology have staged a protest in memory of their fellow students who lost their lives following the rigged presidential election of 12 June 2009.

'Israel reveals its character again'

Mousavi condemns violent assault on Flotilla

Green Movement Leader Mir Hossein Leader has condemned Israel’s violent assault on the ship carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.

Interview with Lawyers and Relatives of Kurdish Prisoners

Kurdistan; Two Weeks after General Strike

The government continues to summon and threaten bazaari merchans, arrest activists and fuel speculation that it would carry out death sentences for other political prisoners two weeks after the execution of Kurdish political prisoners and the ensuing general strike in Kurdistan.

Amnesty International: 'governmental intolerance of criticism and mounting repression in Iran'

In the Middle East and North Africa, there were patterns of governmental intolerance of criticism in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia, and mounting repression in Iran.

Brave student confronts FMR Ahmadinejad minister on post-election killings

During a speech by government propagandist and Ahmadinejad's former culture minister Saffar Harandi, to Semnan University, a brave student asks, “when you speak about justice in Ahmadinejad’s government, what is your opinion regarding the ultimate injustice which is killing people on the streets?"