Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, MeK, has one more reason to celebrate at the 2012 year-end. Following the United States’ September removal of MeK’s name from its designated foreign terrorist organizations list, the government of Canada announced today that it has also removed the organization from its black list.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, denied today any news about Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s death, after a suffered stroke last night, says Al-Arabyia news agency.
Stop Fundamentalism – All phone lines to Gohardasht prison where common prisoners are kept, have been down since Friday, reported “Iranian Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran” on its website today. Families of prisoners are currently unable to get in touch with them and there are no news on the conditions inside the prison. The activists also report that all in-person visitations have stopped for a long time.
Stop Fundamentalism – Forty days past Sattar Beheshti’s death under torture while in custody of Iranian police, family of the dissident blogger gathered along with a considerable number of Iranian citizens in Robat Karim cemetery near Tehran to honor his memory, yesterday.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian Cyber Police shows off its activities during a “Police and Science” exhibition in Tehran, bragging about how better its achievements are than the American police.
Stop Fundamentalism – Another jailed Iranian blogger, Mohammad Reza Pourshajareh, is facing serious health issues and is being denied adequate medical treatment by Iran’s prison officials, reported Human Rights Activists News agency, today.
SF News – A newly developed Harry Potter style camouflage fabric can make soldiers completely invisible in the battlefield, claims a Canadian based company.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, winners of this years European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, were absent at the awards ceremony today at the parliament’s Strasbourg headquarters. The two winners are barred from leaving the country and Sotoudeh currently is serving a six-year prison sentence for defending dissidents and speaking out against juvenile executions.
SF News – It’s no Giorgio Armani. This one smells like pizza. It is a new way of attention grabbing and rewarding Facebook fans just in time for Christmas season by the major pizza chain, Pizza Hut. Now the first question that would come to mind is that would it be pepperoni or mushrooms?
Stop Fundamentalism – Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani warned the Iraqi people on his official website that the political process preventing an Iraqi civil war is facing major threats. He blamed lack of trust among different political groups to be the cause of the rising tensions.
