Back off on Kazemi, Iran tells Canada

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Globe and Mail: Iran told Canada to back off yesterday over the case of Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in Iranian custody, criticizing the Canadian government’s
“immaturity” and warning it to stop interfering in the case.
Spokesmen for both Iran’s foreign ministry and its judiciary took shots at Canada over the weekend, and indicated that Ms. Kazemi’s Canadian citizenship was irrelevant to them.

Iran Reformists Barred From Presidency

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AP: All reformists who registered to run in next month’s presidential elections were rejected by Iran’s hard-line constitutional watchdog, which approved only six out of the 1,010 hopefuls, state-run television reported. The announcement Sunday prompted a crisis meeting by
reformers, who immediately threatened to boycott the election.

UK rights group urges Human Rights Watch to retract flawed report

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A human rights organisation with worldwide reach has said the latest report by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on the Iranian opposition as based on “fabrications”. The United Kingdom branch of Jubilee Campaign issued a response to a 28-page document …

UK rights group urges Human Rights Watch to retract flawed report

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A human rights organisation with worldwide reach has said the latest report by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on the Iranian opposition as based on “fabrications”. The United Kingdom branch of Jubilee Campaign issued a response to a 28-page document …

British MP rebukes Human Rights Watch report on Iran dissidents

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A Conservative MP attacked a U.S.-based rights group for publishing a report on the Iranian opposition “on the basis of interviews with Iranian intelligence agents”. David Amess, MP released a statement saying, “I recently learned of a dire report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The fabricated stories of ‘former members’ of the PMOI interviewed by HRW contained nothing new and are stories that have been told by the same individuals for many years to whomever will listen”.

British MP rebukes Human Rights Watch report on Iran dissidents

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A Conservative MP attacked a U.S.-based rights group for publishing a report on the Iranian opposition “on the basis of interviews with Iranian intelligence agents”. David Amess, MP released a statement saying, “I recently learned of a dire report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The fabricated stories of ‘former members’ of the PMOI interviewed by HRW contained nothing new and are stories that have been told by the same individuals for many years to whomever will listen”.

British human rights lawyer blasts report on Iranian group

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A prominent Human Rights lawyer in the United Kingdom levelled serious accusations against U.S.-based Human Rights Watch for a report published on the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin, calling the paper “baseless and unsubstantiated”. Malcolm Fowler, a member of the International Human Rights Committee and Law Reform Board of the Law Society of England and Wales, said in a letter addressed to Human Rights Watch, “The content of the …

British human rights lawyer blasts report on Iranian group

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Iran Focus: London, May 22 – A prominent Human Rights lawyer in the United Kingdom levelled serious accusations against U.S.-based Human Rights Watch for a report published on the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin, calling the paper “baseless and unsubstantiated”. Malcolm Fowler, a member of the International Human Rights Committee and Law Reform Board of the Law Society of England and Wales, said in a letter addressed to Human Rights Watch, “The content of the …

One agent’s tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methods

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Iran Terror Website: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watch’s new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian opposition’s sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK.

One agent’s tortuous path throws light on Iran VEVAK methods

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Iran Terror Website: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watch’s new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian opposition’s sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK.