Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category

More Persecution on the Horizon

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

According to news sites “the head of Iran’s judiciary called on Sunday for the prosecution of people working for increasingly influential anti-establishment satellite TV channels and websites.”
It means that Iranian people who write in a collective blog, sign a…

Iran: Free Shiva Nazar Ahari

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Shiva Nazar Ahai, is a female Iranian blogger and human rights activist who was arrested a few weeks ago. MadyarIran has published a poster with her photo and asked ‘freedom for all political prisoners’.

Free Speech as a Human Right

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

By Curt Hopkins of the Committee to Protect Bloggers
The two main arguments governments, and their supporters, make against free speech are these. First, that the outlawed speech is immoral. An example of this might be a blogger in Egypt…