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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Jafar Panahi released on bail – but the struggle continues!
Hands Off the People celebrates the fact that Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi has been released from prison after more than two months. For the last week, he has been on hunger strike to protest against the conditions in the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran News
Tagged film maker, HOPI, Hunger Strike, iran, Jafar Panahi, Offside, political prisoners, Sanctions, solidarity, war
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Panahi stages hunger strike
Ben Lewis reports on the campaign to free the outspoken film maker imprisoned by the Iranian regime Activists in Hands Off the People of Iran have been informed that Jafar Panahi, the internationally acclaimed film maker who has been incarcerated … Continue reading
Save the Life of LGBT Activist Kiana Firouz
‘Iranian lesbian activist Kiana Firouz is currently seeking asylum in the United Kingdom after a controversy over the upcoming release of Cul de Sac. The film, which stars Firouz and includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, is based heavily on Firouz’s … Continue reading
Posted in Solidarity
Tagged asylum, Deportation, Home Office, homosexuality, immigration, Islamic Republic, Kiana Firouz, lesbian, LGBT
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Over one hundred people attend solidarity screening of arrested Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi’s Offside at Soho Theatre.
Over one hundred people attend solidarity screening of arrested Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi’s Offside at Soho Theatre. May 12 saw a well-attended solidarity solidarity screening of Jafar Panahi’s best known film, jointly organised by Hands Off the People of … Continue reading
Manchester solidarity demo against executions in Iran
On May 13th around 30 members of Hands Off the People of Iran along, Iranian students and exiles demonstrated in support of the general strike in Iranian Kurdistan and protest the executions of five political prisoners on May 9th in … Continue reading
Protests at Beheshti University in Iran
Today students held a mass protest at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. It ended in clashes with security forces.
Sharif University Student Found Murdered in Dormitory
Iran News Agency – Sharif University of Technology student Hamidreza Abdi was found dead in the campus dormitory on May 5, 2010. According to his classmates, Hamidreza who also taught Turkish to other students, was an opposition of the “coup” … Continue reading
Posted in Iran News
Tagged Hamidreza Abdi, Islamic Republic, May 5, opposition, Persian2English, Sharif university, students
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Iranian regime executes five political prisoners including teacher Farzad Kamangar
Five political prisoners were executed on May 9 2010 in Evin prison in Tehran. Farzad Kamangar, Ali Haydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam- Houli and Mehdi Eslamian were members of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an offshoot of … Continue reading
May Day Demands
Iran’s workers will once again use May Day to remind the religious state and ‘reformist’ Islamists alike of their power, writes Yassamine Mather As May Day approaches, Iranian workers are preparing demonstrations in Tehran and other major cities. Over the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran News
Tagged election, Farzad Kamagar, IMF, iran, Iranian revolution, Islamic Republic, Mansour Ossanlou, May Day, trade union, workers, yassamine mather
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