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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
NCRI – Among dignitaries addressing the rally in Brussels on November 7
in support of the Iranian Resistance was Belgian Senator Erika Thijs.
The following is her message to the crowd:
I am very happy to be able to address your huge rally today. I know
that millions of Iranians are able to see us today live. I would also
like to express my regards to the Iranian Mojahedin in Camp Ashraf in
Iraq. I know that this demonstration is also in solidarity with our
sisters and brothers in Ashraf.
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Sunday, 20 November 2005 |
NCRI – Mr. Jean-Pierre Malmendier, member of the Belgian Parliament
Joined 35,000 Iranians rallying in Brussels on November 7 to express
solidarity with the Iranian people and their resistance to free Iran.
The following is an excerpt from his address to the rally:
We have gathered here today when Iran is becoming more and more the
focus of international developments and the threats of the Iranian
regime in many ways are becoming clear for world peace and security.
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
NCRI - Tunne Kelam, Member of the European Parliament from Estonia,
addressed a rally of 35,000 Iranians in Brussels on November 7. The
following is an excerpt of his speech:
We have gathered here today to call on the European Union to refer Iran
to the Security Council and to denounce the unjust labelling of the
Iranian opposition as terrorists and to support the Iranian people in
their just cause for freedom and democracy.
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: Resolution leaves no excuse for appeasement of the mullahs
Human rights situation in Iran must be referred to the UN Security Council
The UN General Assembly Third Committee passed a resolution in its
session today condemning the brutal and continued violations of human
rights in Iran. The majority of UN member states voted in favor of the
resolution. The resolution strongly condemns the continuing use of
torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
continued carrying out of public executions, and, on a large scale,
other executions, and, in particular, deplores the execution of persons
who were below 18 years of age at the time their offence was committed,
and also continued violations of freedom of assembly, opinion and
expression, violations of the rights of women and religious and ethnic
minorities.
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
Agence France Press, UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly on Friday
passed a resolution expressing "serious concern" about human rights
violations in Iran, including the use of torture and public executions,
and called on Tehran to end the abuses.
The vote was 77 in favor, 51 against with 46 abstentions.
The resolution expressed "serious concern at the continuing use of
torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" of
detainees as well as "public executions, violations of the human rights
of ethnic and religious minorities and intimidation and persecution of
human rights defenders."
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
NCRI, November 18 – The following is a statement by the
Friends of a Free Iran, a Euro parliamentary group, released today:
The unveiling of A secret torture and murder center in Baghdad, managed
by the Badr militia within the Iraqi Interior Ministry, fully confirms
repeated first hand complaints handed by several Iraqi civil society
organizations and citizens to the Friends of a Free Iran mission to
Iraq last July.
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
Associated Press, LONDON - An Iranian opposition group demonstrated
outside the prime minister's office Friday for the release of two men
it believes are being tortured in Iraq, and called on Iran to cease
"meddling" in Iraq.
Laila Jazayeri, director of the Association of Anglo-Iranian Women in
the UK, [said] the men, Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad Ali Zahedi, were
abducted Aug. 4 by agents of the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
Agence France Press, VIENNA, November 18 - Iran is still blocking UN nuclear inspectors from crucial military sites, the UN atomic watchdog agency reported Friday, saying full Iranian cooperation was overdue.
"Iran's full transparency is indispensable and overdue," Mohamed Elbaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in a report released here.
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
By Sharon Behn
Washington Times, November 18 - The discovery of a secret Iraqi
Interior Ministry torture chamber confirms what has been an open secret
in Baghdad for months: Pro-Iranian militia have deeply infiltrated the
ministry and are acting as a law unto themselves.
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