Articles
An Account of Displaced Iranian Journalism
31 August 2010 — Azad TribuneRSF Petition: Release Shiva Nazar Ahari
29 August 2010 — Azad TribuneShiva Nazar Ahari is a blogger, journalist, human rights defender and activist who was born in 1984 in Tehran.
Iran Programme Internship
18 August 2010 — Azad TribuneReports to: Iran Programme Officer
Located: Farringdon Road, London
Time Commitment: 2-3 days per week – days in office to be arranged
Duration: 3-6 months (ideally starting 13th September 2010)
Purpose:
Daryush Shokof Interview
9 July 2010 — Azad TribuneDaryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, film producer and political activist born in Tehran, but currently living in Germany. In his recent movie, Iran Zendan, Daryush has brought together the seemingly separate realms of art and politics in order to express his frustration with the current atrocities committed by the state towards political prisoners in Iran today. His humanitarian outlook and human rights activism manifests itself in all his capacities as an artist.
A Week of Action for Human Rights: Anniversary of the Iran Elections
5 July 2010 — Azad TribuneThe 12th June marked the anniversary of the elections in Iran. To pay tribute to those arrested during and after the protests in the last year, eight organisations worked together to produce a variety of events to raise awareness on the situation in Iran.
Imminent Execution of Political Prisoner Feared
2 July 2010 — Azad TribuneAfter the recent execution of four Kurdish political prisoners on charges of moharabeh’ (enmity against God), ARTICLE 19 is very concerned that the execution of Zeinab Jalalian and 15 other Kurdish political prisoners convicted of the same charge is imminent.
Zeinab Jalalian was arrested in 2008 in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah because she allegedly wrote and created posters for the Kurdish nationalist group, the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) and because of her alleged ties to the group.
Documentary screening: 'For Neda'
30 June 2010 — Azad TribuneOn the afternoon of June 20 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan left her family home to take part in an anti government demonstration in Tehran. Hours later she was dead, shot by a lone sniper, her death recorded on a mobile phone and broadcast around the world. Neda instantly became an international symbol of the struggle for freedom in Iran, her face familiar to millions of people around the world.
Reporters Without Borders unveils first-ever “Anti-Censorship Shelter”
29 June 2010 — Azad TribuneReporters Without Borders today launched the world’s first “Anti-Censorship Shelter” in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents who are refugees or just passing through as a place where they can learn how to circumvent Internet censorship, protect their electronic communications and maintain their anonymity online.
THIS MAGIC GREEN BRACELET
1 June 2010 — Azad Tribune
Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian blogosphere. To read more, click here.
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