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• Prime Minister of Spain Urges Respect for Human Rights in Iran

  

  Monday, 1 March 2010 - In a response to a request by the Campaign for solidarity in demanding human rights in Iran to the Prime Minister of Spain, the Director of the Cabinet Mr. Jose Enrique Serrano Martinez wrote:

   

• Film-maker Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran

  

  Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - The Crimson Gold director, who is a vocal supporter of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, has reportedly been detained by security forces.

   

• Iranian security forces resort to hostage taking

  Monday, 8 March 2010 - GVF -- Security forces have raided the house of Keyvan Rafiei’s father and have taken his sister to an unknown location as hostage. They offered no warrant or reason for their actions.

   

• Iran Releases 6 Journalists, Opposition Activists

  

  Monday, 1 March 2010 - Iranian media say six journalists and opposition activists held for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil have been released on bail.

   

• Iranian poet Simin Behbahani handed 'travel ban'

  

  Monday, 8 March 2010 - Iran's leading female poet has told the BBC she has been barred from leaving the country by the government.

   

• Iran bans 2 pro-reform newspapers

  

  Monday, 1 March 2010 - TEHRAN (AP) -- A pro-reform newspaper editor says the Iranian government has banned his daily until further notice.

   

• Petraeus warns Iran becoming 'thugocracy'

  

  Monday, 8 March 2010 - WASHINGTON (AFP) — General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results.

   

• Iran steps up pressure on journalists

  

  Monday 8 March 2010 - Etemaad, Iran's most prominent reformist daily paper, was closed along with two weekly publications, Irandokht and Sina, a week ago today. Since the disputed election in June, Iran has shut eight newspapers and has imprisoned more than 100 journalists and bloggers. At least 65 remain in jail – more than any country has imprisoned since 1996.

   

• Iran activist calls for shift of focus from embargoes to human rights

  

  Monday, 8 March 2010 - The United Nations should focus on pressing the Tehran regime to restore democracy and human rights rather than imposing economic sanctions on Iran for its nuclear programme, says Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian opposition activist.

   

• Authorities pressuring Valian family to deny son's death sentence

  

  Saturday, 6 March 2010 - GVF -- While most pro-government propaganda tools are doing their best to portray the news of Mohammad Amin Valian’s death sentence as nothing but lies and propaganda, in an interview a person close to Mohammad Amin Valian has told The Green Voice of Freedom that “Amin’s family are under severe pressure not to conduct any interviews with independent media.”

   

• Iranians in America Report Steady Stream of Death Threats

  

  Wednesday, 3 March 2010 - Exiled Iranian dissidents, human rights campaigners and Iranian-American advocacy groups are fearing for their lives as they receive what they say are ongoing death threats from Iranian intelligence agents and regime sympathizers working in the United States.

   

• US urges Iran to free death-row protester

  

  Saturday, 6 March 2010 - WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States urged Iran Friday to free a student said to face the death penalty over anti-government protests, warning Tehran that its rights record was worsening its ties with the world.

   

• Iran bars Karoubi son from traveling to UK

  

  Saturday, 6 March 2010 - (Reuters) - Iranian authorities prevented a son of prominent opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi from leaving the country for London and confiscated his passport, Karoubi's website reported on Saturday.

   

• 'Journalists should be deprived of citizen rights'

  

  Thursday, 4 March 2010 - GVF -- Iran’s Ministry for Culture and Islamic Guidance has said that changes should be made to Iran’s press law, so that instead of banning publications, “lawbreaking” journalists themselves should be confronted.

   

• UN rights chief criticizes Iran, Sri Lanka

  

  Thursday, 4 March 2010 - GENEVA (AP) -- U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay has singled out Iran for its crackdown on protestors after last year's election in an address at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

   

• Iran court upholds death for opposition activist

  

  Wednesday, 3 March 2010 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian appeals court has upheld the death sentence for a student who took part in an anti-government rally in December that left eight people dead, an opposition Web site reported.

   

• Grand Ayatollah Saanei: Those protesting to the government not only are not enemies of God but it was their religious duty to self-defend.

  

  Friday, 5 March 2010 - Grand Ayatollah Saanei: Those protesting to the government not only are not enemies of God but it was their religious duty to self-defend.

   

• Norway expels Iranian diplomat in Tehran response

  

  Wednesday, 3 March 2010 - OSLO, March 3 (Reuters) - Norway's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it had asked Iran to remove one diplomat from Norway after Iranian authorities demanded one Norwegian diplomat leave Tehran.

   

• Inside view is worth risk, reporters in Iran say

  

  Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - Journalists are monitored and may be deported or jailed if they anger the government. But those inside say it is worth the risks and frustrations to have a 'more nuanced understanding.'

   

   

• Bluster at UN Human Rights Council, as US and Iran trade barbs

  

  Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - This week at the UN Human Rights Council, the US seeks to draw attention to Iran’s repression of domestic opposition. Iran, meanwhile, launched a fiery attack on the West.

   

• Congress hears testimony on using Internet to quash human rights

  

  Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - Washington (CNN) -- "If it were not for the Internet, God knows how many more people would have been killed on the streets of Tehran" after the 2009 Iranian elections, an Iranian blogger told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.

   

• Film world protests at detention of Iranian director Jafar Panahi

  

  Wednesday, 3 March 2010 - Artists from around the world yesterday called for the release of the Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, who was arrested in a raid on his home in Tehran. The award-winning director, a vocal supporter of the Opposition, was seized on Monday night along with his wife and daughter and 15 house guests.