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Intimate interviews with three women former members of the Mojahedin Khalq who courageously talk about sexual abuse by the leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. Everyone who has ever heard of the MEK should watch these shocking revelations.
Human Rights
Iran: 411 Executions in the First Half of 2014
At least 411 prisoners have been executed in Iran from the beginning of January 2014 to the end of June of the same year. This indicates that the execution wave, which recommenced after the most recent Iranian presidential election, is continuing. According to reports by Iran Human Rights (IHR), more than 870 people have been executed since the election of Mr. Hassan Rouhani in June 2013. IHR calls on the international community to take serious measures to stop the execution wave in Iran.
Iran’s human rights situation, w/ Mehdi Arabshahi & Gissou Nia
Mehdi Arabshahi, was president of the largest student organization in Iran, the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat, and a former political prisoner who fled Iran after being held in solitary confinement for 100 days. He and Gissou Nia, Executive Director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, discuss the status of human rights in Iran.
A bold speech by Nasrin Sotoudeh – Translated to English by Tavaana
Iran’s lioness of justice Nasrin Sotoudeh calls Iran a big prison, remembers her friends still inside the small prisons, professes solidarity with religious minorities and celebrates the proud resistance of Iran’s artists. A most moving address, translated to English by Tavaana.