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Shots fired at Iran protest

There have been violent clashes on the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran, after a massive opposition rally in the city. Fires are burning on the city's ...

Bypassing Iran's firewalls

Mojgan was one of hundreds of thousands of people who attended the rally in Tehran on Monday afternoon to hear the opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi ...

USA Today: One dead after shots fired at Iran protest rally

Update at 2:56 p.m. ET: Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main opposition candidate in last week's presidential election, says on his website that he is not very optimistic about the outcome of his appeal to have the vote overturned, Reuters reports.
Update at 1:31 p.m. ET: State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says the U.S. is "deeply troubled" by reports of violence and arrests in Iran, the Associated Press reports.
Kelly also tells reporters that the United States is concerned about the allegations of ballot fraud in the presidential election last week.
Update at 1:30 p.m. ET: Iranian state television is also reporting that shots were fired during the protest rally, Reuters reports.
"There has been sporadic shooting out there ... I can see people running here," a reporter of Iran’s English-language Press TV said, according to Reuters.
Earleir posting: Reuters news agency is quoting a witness at a huge rally in Tehran as saying one person was killed and many wounded when "armed men" fired on a hundreds of thousands of Iranians who defied authorities to protest the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The witness, an Iranian photographer, said people in the crowd had attacked a building housing members of a religious militia, who then opened fire, the news agency says.
The Associated Press says its photographer saw pro-government militia fire at opposition protesters, killing at least one person.
The BBC says its correspondent in the Iranian capital, Jon Leyne, is calling the rally the biggest demonstration in the Islamic republic's 30-year history and describes it as a "political earthquake."

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Iran rights group slams razing of 'political' graves

TEHRAN (AFP) — The rights group of Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday condemned the destruction of a Tehran cemetery where it said executed political prisoners lay buried.
"We have recently learned that Khavaran cemetery, where the victims of the illegal massacre of political prisoners in the 1980s and especially 1988 are buried, has been destroyed by some officials," the Human Rights Defenders' Centre said in a statement.
"It appears that they sought to remove the signs of a graveyard and turn it into a park or green space.
"The Human Rights Defenders Centre condemns this ugly and appalling act and notes that everyone including the authorities is required to maintain the dignity of the dead," said the group headed by Ebadi.
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Amnsety:Iran: Human Rights in the spotlight on the 30th Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

10 February 2009 marks the 30 year anniversary of the change in government in Iran that led to the creation of the Islamic Republic. Amnesty International is marking the date by raising its concerns over a range of human rights violations that have persisted over the past 30 years.
Previous governments appointed by the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi were widely regarded as corrupt and responsible for egregious human rights violations. The Islamic Republic of Iran was created following a nationwide referendum on 1 April 1979. Another referendum, in December 1979, approved the constitution and confirmed Ayatollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader.
Despite promises made by Ayatollah Khomeini that all Iranians would be free, the past 30 years have been characterised by persistent human rights violations. The vast scope and scale of those violations of the early years of the Islamic Republic did decline somewhat with time. Limited relaxation of restrictions on freedom of expression during the period of reform under former President Khatami raised hopes of a sustained improvement in the human rights situation, although the situation remained poor. However, these hopes have been firmly crushed since the accession to power of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Stop obliterating remnants of Humanitarian crime of 1988

In attempt to erase the remaining signs of massacre of political prisoners i summer of 1988, Islamic Republic of Iran plans to completely demolish Khavaran cemetery (the only known of none Muslim dissidents and those executed during summer of 1988). Join us to protest against yet anouther round of savagery and cruelty, this time against families of victims.
Sign the petition Higher Commissioner of Human Rights at UN
Your Excellency Ms. Navanethem Pillay High Commissioner of Human Rights at the UN
With deep disbelief and disdain we have become aware that the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have undertaken the destruction of Khavaran Cemetery, the only known site of mass and individual graves of the victims of the Great Massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 and other non- Muslim dissidents executed in Iran through out the Seventies.
I beg your honor to urgently take action demanding the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately stop this barbaric operation.
The destruction of Khavaran is tantamount to the eradication of an important material evidence of a historic crime.
Respectfully,


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SITUATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN IRAN- Annual Report 2007 (1:st ed)

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Request for sending an international, non-governmental Group to Investigate human right situation in Iran

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Reporters sans frontires - Iran:Tehran seeking new ways to censor the Internet and track dissidents

More sites banned, overhaul of filtering system planned

Reporters Without Borders today accused the Iranian government of seeking to increase its control of the Internet in recent measures that have included contracting an Iranian company, Delta Global, to set up a new online censorship system.

While developing a woefully oppressive model of Internet management, Iran is participating actively in international talks about Internet governance that are being held as part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the press organisation said.


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Reporters sans frontires - Iran:Editor of Kurdish-language weekly sentenced to 18 months in prison

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the 18-month prison sentence that was passed on Mohammad Sedigh Kabovand, the editor of Payam-e mardom-e Kurdestan, a weekly published in Kurdish and Farsi, for “upsetting public opinion and spreading separatist ideas.” The sentence has only now come to light although handed down on 18 August.
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