Tens of Iranian artists and celebrities have cancelled attendance at state-run festivals. These resignations are happening amid a wave of...
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In a statement, the Iranian Teachers Association has called on Iranian authorities to release Jafar Ebrahimi, a teacher activist and...
The disappearance of protesters during the gasoline protests in Iran has received little attention. One of those protesters who is...
Iranian activist, Neda Naji, who was arrested during the Labor Day rally on 1 May 2019 is still in prison....
An interview with Farzad Seifikaran, a journalist who documents and narrates the stories of the fallen protesters of the November...
Tens of Iranian artists and celebrities have cancelled attendance at state-run festivals. These resignations are happening amid a wave of...
Read moreIn a statement, the Iranian Teachers Association has called on Iranian authorities to release Jafar Ebrahimi, a teacher activist and...
Read moreThe disappearance of protesters during the gasoline protests in Iran has received little attention. One of those protesters who is...
Read moreIranian activist, Neda Naji, who was arrested during the Labor Day rally on 1 May 2019 is still in prison....
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Tens of Iranian artists and celebrities have cancelled attendance at state-run festivals. These resignations are happening amid a wave of public outrage against Ukrainian plane shoot-down.
Read moreThe disappearance of protesters during the gasoline protests in Iran has received little attention. One of those protesters who is still missing is Sardar Azami, a 41-year-old man from the city of Parand.
Iranian activist, Neda Naji, who was arrested during the Labor Day rally on 1 May 2019 is still in prison. Neda has been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for “assembly and collusion against national security,” and “ insulting governmental officials”. Zahra Minoii, Neda’s attorney told Irna Plus that they...
An interview with Farzad Seifikaran, a journalist who documents and narrates the stories of the fallen protesters of the November gasoline protests in Iran. The Iranian officials have not been transparent about the number of those killed by security forces in the gasoline protests.
The ninth bimonthly Labor Rights Newsletter of Zamaneh Media has been published in both Persian and English. This issue covers labor news and workers’ issues in the approximate range of October and November 2019.
Borhan Mansornia was only 28 years old when he was shot and killed in the November uprising in the Kurdish majority city of Kermanshah. Kurdistan and Khuzestan, the two provinces with a substantial number of ethnic and religious minority citizens, suffered the highest casualties.
Urban legends abound on both sides of the Iran-Iraq border. A salient trope in these stories is sexual transgression and honorable revenge.
The names of those killed by security forces in the gasoline protests in Iran are slowly being verified. Zamaneh has spoken to sources close to a single mom, a schoolboy and a male model who have been killed to narrate their stories.
The recent protests in Iran are an outcome of severe underlying economic and political pressure, which needs to be addressed by the international community.
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