Human Rights Report in Iran
The present report aims to show a picture – although inadequate -- of the pervasive crimes committed against the oppressed people of Iran in the month of August and seeks help to restitute their trampled rights.
The Iranian regime arbitrarily killed eight people this month, targeted by security forces.
According to reports published by state-run media, 22 people were sentenced to death in August including a minor who was sentenced to death at 17. There were also reports that two Kurd political prisoners were sentenced to death on charges of what the Iranian regime called ‘acting against national security and enmity with God’.
State-run media reported the public flogging of a man in Masjid Soleiman. He was flogged 100 times. According to other reports, nine other people including a teacher, a political activist and two Dervishes were also flogged.
Notably, the Secretary of the Human Rights Department in the Judiciary said that this barbaric act was not torture.
“It can be said that the west and western human rights say that flogging is torture while in our view, for a convict sentenced to this, flogging is a punishment and penalty ”, he said.
The facts above were some of the instances of human rights violations in the month of August. Of course, only a small percent of the thousands of human rights violations going on every day in Iran were mentioned in this report.
Rally by thousands of
Iranian-Americans
concerned citizens, human rights activists
and religious figures
against Ahmadinejad’s visit
to New York & UN
10 AM, 22 September 2011
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD PLAZA
Across from the UN
Denverpost : Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Addresses UN
Demonstrators rally outside the U.N. headquarters to protest against controversial Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before he is scheduled to speak at the U.N. General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, in New York. Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton were among the speakers at the event. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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US walks out as Iran delivers anti-US speech
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely attacked the United States and major West European nations as "arrogant powers" ruled by greed and eager for military adventurism. The two U.S. diplomats, who specialize in the Middle East, were followed out of the chamber by diplomats from more than 30 countries. They included the 27 European Union members, Australia, New Zealand, Somalia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Macedonia, a U.N. diplomat said. Israel boycotted the speech. Ahmadenijad's fiery anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli rhetoric has been a staple of the General Assembly's ministerial meetings. Last year, Ahmadinejad provoked a walkout by the U.S., EU, and others when he said a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad provoked yet another controversy Thursday saying a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel's survival. The provocative comments prompted the U.S. delegation to walk out of Ahmadinejad's U.N. speech, where he also blamed the U.S. as the power behind U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used as fuel for electricity generation or to build nuclear weapons.
Protesters rally against Iranian leader outside UN
By VERENA DOBNIK NEW YORK (AP) — Former United Nations ambassador John Bolton said Thursday that the Obama administration is doing "almost nothing" to protect Iranians from the violence of their own regime — as represented at the U.N. by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Minutes before Ahmadinejad addressed the annual U.N. General Assembly, about 1,000 Iranian-Americans staged a protest rally in nearby Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. Children stomped on a poster of Ahmadinejad among banners that covered the pavement. "Down With the Islamic Republic of Iran," read one. Bolton, who served as ambassador during George W. Bush's presidency, told The Associated Press that the United States had failed to stop Iran from torturing and killing its own people. "We expect that our commitment to the people of Iran is going to be upheld," he said. "Right now, the Obama administration is doing almost nothing." He said this week's release of two American hikers held for years by Iran was what he called "just Broadway theater." Some protesters were draped in the Iranian flag, while others hoisted yellow flags representing Iran's political opposition led by Maryam Rajavi, head of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. Protesters say tens of thousands of the opposition group's supporters in Iran have been executed by the regime.
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21 september 2011- Iranians protest in New York against Ahmadinejad
Obama: Iran, N. Korea face greater isolation
"There is a future of greater opportunity for the people of these nations if their governments meet their obligations. But if they continue down a path that is outside international law, they must be met with greater pressure and isolation," Obama said. "That is what our commitment to peace demands." Obama has argued that his administration had worked to strengthen treaties and institutions dedicated to the spread of nuclear weapons and needed to hold those nations who flout such regimes accountable. "The Iranian government cannot demonstrate that its program is peaceful, has not met its obligations, and rejected offers that would provide it with peaceful nuclear power," Obama told the UN General Assembly.
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22 September 2011 
22 September 2011 
21 September 2011 
Rally in New York
A broad based committee of Iranian-Americans from all over the US is organizing a major protest rally against the presence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Iranian dictatorship, in New York who is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 20.
Thousands of Iranian-Americans as well as Americans who believe in human rights and democracy in Iran and seek tranquility and tolerance in the Middle East will take part in the rally that is expected to be the biggest anti-Iranian regime gathering in the US over the years.
The rally, which is going to take place at the New York's Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, is supported and sponsored by dozens of parliamentary groups, human rights groups, and dignitaries, in the US, Europe, Canada and Australia.
We believe the presence of Ahmadinejad, a messenger of suppression, execution and stoning to death, terrorism and drive to acquire nuclear weapons at the UN will only embolden the fundamentalist regime to justify further repression at home and belligerence abroad. That should not be tolerated.
We invite you to take part in this event to show your outrage against Ahmadinejad’s visit and express your solidarity with the Iranian people. Contact your local organizing committee for enquiries. Click here to find your local committee.