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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 |
 A moving footage of scenes of public hangings of three men in
Iran unveiled the extent of ongoing atrocities in Iran in a meeting at
the Law Society in central London on June 1.
The meeting entitled “The Sanctity of human rights must be safeguarded
and kept free of political manipulation” was chaired by former Labour
MP Kerry Pollard and speakers included Geoffrey Bindman, a
distinguished human rights lawyer and president of the Bindman
Chambers, and ...
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 LettersProfessor Steven Schneebaum, former member, Board of Directors of International Human Rights Law Group
“I served for 14 years on the Board of Directors of the International
Human Rights Law Group, as it then was called and have taught,
published, and lectured widely in the field of international human
rights law. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 EventsThe first day of this month I spent outside Paris with Mrs.
Rajavi in her gilded citadel. Gilded prison you could say in another
way. I was with her for 2.5 hours, and I just want to say that I was
enormously impressed by her. I mean I have met quite a few resistance
leaders, or revolutionary leaders over the years and they tend, perhaps
inevitably, but they tend to be fairly egoistical, to be fairly
arrogant. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 EventsDr. Abdullah Al-Jabouri, Former Governor of Diyala province in Iraq:
Chief among the enemies of a democratic and secular Iraq are those who
want Iraq to be an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship. Islamic
fundamentalism is an imported problem in my country. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Events Lord Corbett of Castle Vale in a meeting in the UK House of Commons:
I have sent the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch in New York a
list of 17 questions about its report on the PMOI.Twelve men were
interviewed over about 12 hours on the telephone. |
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Friday, 03 June 2005 |
 StatementsFormer Majlis (Parliament) Speaker, Mehdi Karroubi, who is
also a candidate in the sham presidential elections, admitted that the
transfer of explosives to Saudi Arabia in 1986 and the 1987 Mecca
riots, which left hundreds of pilgrims dead were carried out on the
orders of the regime’s officials and agencies.
In his remarks at the Bou-Ali University of Hamedan, which were quoted
by the state-run daily Sharq, on May 31, Karroubi said, “I was the
representative of the Imam [Khomeini] in 1985.
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 EventsParliamentarians' meeting at the British House of Commons
"I as well as many of my colleagues have been very impressed with the
record of the National Council of Resistance of Iran when it comes to
the rights of women. Madame Rajavi is a courageous and progressive
Muslim woman who has spent more than two decades struggling against the
mullahs fundamentalism and standing up for the rights of Iranian
people, particularly women." |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 EventsIn joint statement, Parliamentarians urge Human Rights Watch to retract “flawed” report on PMOI
London, May 2005 – Fifteen members of Parliament from both Houses and
all major political parties told a packed meeting at the House of
Commons that the British government should remove Iran’s main
opposition group from the list of terrorist organizations. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Media CoverageLONDON (AP) _ An Iranian opposition group screened a
gruesome video Wednesday showing two men being hanged before crowds in
Iran, saying the executions were punishment for adultery. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Media CoveragePress Association
By David Barrett, PA Home Affairs Correspondent
Shocking footage of three public executions carried out in Iran was screened in London by exiled dissidents today.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) showed a 10-minute
video which they said depicted the capital punishment of three young
men for adultery. |
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 |
 Iran opinion poll: 92 percent of eligible voters will stay away from presidential election
Organization of Iran on the upcoming presidential election were
announced today. According to the survey of 1,730 eligible voters in
various provinces, 92 percent said that they would boycott the polling
on June 17.
The results of a nationwide opinion poll conducted by the People’s Mojahedin
Among the eight percent who said they would vote, 58.8 percent favored
Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of the regime, 37.5 favored Ali
Larijani, chair of the state-run television. The remaining voters would
go for others including Moeen, Qalibaf and Mehr-Alizadeh.
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Tuesday, 24 May 2005 |
 EventsDenver, Colorado
A committee of Iranian-Americans held a press conference on May 24 and
Tim Ghaemi, the committee’s executive director, described the report as
a compilation of lies by agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry
and called on HRW to withdraw the report. |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 New York
In a press conference in New York organized by the Association of
Iranians in New York on May 25, Mohammad Allafchi, chair of the
association, introduced a group of witnesses who, as former PMOI
members or supporters, spent some time in the group’s bases in Iraq.
They had come from various European countries and the U.S. Speaking on
their behalf, Reza Kafi said that these individuals had come to the
press conference to testify against the allegations raised in the HRW
report.
Rabbi Daniel Zucker described the report void of any credence for
sources used and methodology and asked why HRW was promoting a wrong
policy of maintaining the PMOI on the terrorism list while thousands of
Parliamentarians across the world were calling for its removal.
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Washington DC
In a press briefing at the National Press Club on May 26, attorneys for
Camp Ashraf residents, their relatives and some former PMOI activists
who now live in the West refuted the allegations against the PMOI in
Human Rights Watch’s report.
Professor Steven Schneebaum and Ronald Precup rejected the HRW report
on the PMOI, calling it "procedurally flawed and substantively
incorrect." |
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Tuesday, 31 May 2005 |
 The Iranian Resistance calls for international enquiry into
heinous murder of Karaji youth by senior security official, Mullah Haj
Asgar Najafi |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Geneva
In a press conference in Geneva, Behzad Naziri, a member of the NCRI
Foreign Affairs Committee, described the shocking footage of public
hangings in Iran as the tip of the iceberg of the human rights
situation in Iran. He emphasized that the EU’s approach to the clerical
regime has only encouraged the clerics to intensify suppression in
Iran.
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