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What Did the Founder of Wikipedia Write in a Direct Message?
*This is the second part of the article Curious Case of Persian Wikipedia. In recent weeks, a lively debate started in the Iranian diaspora about…
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Labor Activist Atefeh Rangriz on Hunger Strike in Iran Demanding a Fair Due Process
Atefeh Rangriz, a 30-year-old female political labor prisoner has gone on a hunger strike in prison to protest the Iranian Judiciary’s treatment of her…
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The Curious Case of Persian Wikipedia: is the Iranian State Influencing Content?
On September 11, an investigative report on Open Democracy by Sina Zekavat raised serious concerns in the Iranian community. The article claimed that the…
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More Labor Protests and Sweeping Crackdown in Iran: Zamaneh Media’s Aug & Sept Labor Report
Aug and Sept 2019 for workers and workers’ rights defenders in Iran was marked by more severe repression, unpaid wages and long prison terms…
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FIFA Responds to Calls to Allow Women into Iranian Sports Stadiums after one Female Fan Dies
FIFA has responded to calls asking the world football governing body to look into the Iranian women’s fight to gain access to stadiums after…
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I Have an Iranian Heart with a Dutch Mind – In Conversation with Eline Farideh Koning
When she was only one and a half years old, she was adopted by a Dutch family from an infant nursery in Tehran and…
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Zamaneh Opinion Panelists: Support for the Letters of Dissidents inside Iran Asking the Supreme Leader to Step Down
The majority of Zamaneh audience who took part in Zamaneh Media’s latest opinion panel say that they support the recent statement of activists inside…
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Iranian Workers Demanding Unpaid Wages Slapped with 14-18 Years of Prison Time
Workers of a sugarcane factory as well as labor rights activists and journalists who supported their cause in Iran have been slapped with between…
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Former Mayor of Tehran who Killed his Wife is Free on Bail
The former mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Ali Najafi, who was sentenced to death for murdering his wife was released on bail on Wednesday, 28 August.
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Zamaneh Media launches Daadkhast.org
Zamaneh Media announces the launch of Daadkhast – دادخواست (lit. ‘Petition’) in Persian – the first digital petitioning platform for Iran and the Iranian…
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Two more Women Arrested in Iran for Asking the Supreme Leader to resign
Two more women arrested in Iran related to letters of dissidents that asks the leader of the IRI to resign.
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Iran Detains another Dual-National British Citizen: this Time a Researcher Working on Minorities
Kameel Ahmady a British-Iranian researcher and academic working on minorities was arrested at his home in Tehran, his wife has confirmed.