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
British MP rebukes Human Rights Watch report on Iran dissidents
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
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
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 Peoples 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
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 Peoples 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 agents tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methods
Iran Terror Website: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watchs new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian oppositions sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK.
One agents tortuous path throws light on Iran VEVAK methods
Iran Terror Website: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watchs new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian oppositions sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK.
Iran: One agents tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methods
Iran Terror: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watchs new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian oppositions sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK.
Iran issues stern warning to Europeans ahead of nuclear talks
AFP: Iran warned Britain, France and Germany Sunday against pushing for the Islamic republic to be referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, saying such a step would spark “a crisis over which the Europeans would have no control”. Speaking ahead of high-level crisis talks due to be held in Brussels and Geneva this week, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also warned it would take “unilateral decisions” if it faced diplomatic punishment.
Iran says EU nuclear talks next week crucial
Reuters: Talks this week between Iran and the European Union will show once and for all whether the two sides can reach agreement on Tehran’s nuclear activities, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. “The Geneva meeting will show whether we can reach a result with the Europeans,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a weekly news conference.
