Showing posts with label dissident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dissident. Show all posts

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Iranian liberal dissident Director Resigns (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran – the Liberal Democratic Party leader Sunday resigned from the tax breaks for Iranian dissident was released from prison after one hour.


"I resign from the movement by the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Iran," the official IRNA news agency quoted the Ebrahim Yazdi, 79, as saying Sunday. In order to clarify the criteria for the role of Yazdi et.


Yazdi was jailed in October and released on Sunday at the beginning of Nowruz, the Persian new year's Eve. IRNA also said several jailed political activists, including Mohsen Aminzadeh, a former reformist Minister of the leaves of the Nowruz.


Yazdi, a former Foreign Minister, has been jailed repeatedly draw a vague charges against the clerical establishment.


The free movement of Iran opposes Iran's clerical rule. The party, which had a major role in the 1979 Islamic revolution, but turned against the consolidated experience of active and crushed dissent, eschews violence and in favour of democratic reforms.


Established in 1961, the Party took the country in the Transitional Government following the 1979 Islamic revolution, but Mahdi Bazargan, its leader at the time of the Us Embassy in Tehran was an attachment against the free of charge.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Iranian dissident Karroubi, wife of ' good ': son (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iran's opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, who is under house arrest Tehran, are "good," Ali said Monday the son of Karroubi


The Karroubis were to host the Sunday night to celebrate the son or the Iranian Norouz: new year's argument that Karroubi's website Sahamnews.net.


"The presence of the coordination and security services, my wife and I were able to meet my parents, and eat with the good (...) who are the good "the network quoted Ali Karroubi, in fact, the store recently, saying.


In the meantime, the opposition leader and former intercourse of Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and his wife, "was his father's presence to respond to the security agents," according to the ultra-conservative newspaper Javan website.


Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, Fatemeh account between "completed" under house arrest after February in the middle of that month, calling is the anti-regime for the protest.


Thousands gathered on the February 14 demonstration, in which unknown number of injured and many arrested.


A sudden rise through the minor was held to 20. February and 1 March, the police made a massive.


The opposition appealed to the sites of the demonstrations of March 8 and 15, but the reports whether or not in coils, of any demonstrations Tehran, where the security forces, was introduced by the numbers.


The sites have been advised of the possibility of incorrectly claim February that Karroubi and Moussavi was imprisoned at the end.


Authorities have branded the two men, who have never accepted President Mahmud Ahmadinejad contested election in June 2009, "Nazism" harbored and threatened them with legal action.


Ali, who was arrested on Karroubi for about a month ago, was released from jail detention Office of 1 billion rials ($ 90, 000, or EUR 63,000), Sahamnews.