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Excerpts from the book: “Iran’s Democratic Opposition, A report from Ashraf City,” published in January 2009 following a visit to Camp Ashraf by a delegation of European lawmakers led by Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Camp Ashraf was home to thousands of members of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (or Mojahedin-e Khalgh, MEK). The MEK members later moved to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad.
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London, 20 Oct – Members of Parliament on Monday urged the United Kingdom government to pressure Iran to halt executions as a precondition to an improvement in trade ties.
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New York, 20 Oct – The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply saddened” by the news of the execution of two juvenile offenders last week in Iran.
London, 17 Oct – United Nations human rights experts on Friday expressed their “outrage” and “profound sadness” at the execution in Iran of Fatemeh Salbehi, a juvenile offender convicted for the death of her husband, whom she had been forced to marry at the age of 16.
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London, 17 Oct – The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said it considers holding a meeting of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Tehran on Saturday and the visit by the German Foreign Minister to Iran an act against human rights in Iran and against regional and global peace and security that is to be condemned. It had called on the MSC Chairman and the German Foreign Minister to cancel their trips to Iran and call off the conference in Tehran.
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Paris, 14 Oct – Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi told a conference on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty that her movement seeks to abolish capital punishment in a future “democratic” Iran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement that Rajavi made the remarks at a conference in Paris on Saturday:
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London, 14 Oct – Western governments must stop their silence and inaction vis-à-vis “executions and other atrocities of the religious fascism ruling Iran” and instead “respect the Iranian people’s resistance for freedom”, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told a conference in Paris on Saturday on the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
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Paris, 13 Oct – Since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, more political prisoners have been jailed, conditions in prison have worsened and the number of executions have risen dramatically as the new regime sought to stave off the risk of a popular uprising fueled by increased access to outside information, Politico quoted an Iranian dissident who fled his country after being imprisoned in Tehran for five years as saying.
The following is the full text of Politico’s article published on 10 October:
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London, 13 Oct – The MailOnline has interviewed former Iranian political prisoner Farzad Madadzadeh and Paria Kohandel, the daughter of an Iranian political prisoner, who have given harrowing accounts of their torment in Iran.
The following is the full text of the MailOnline article:
10 October 2015
