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I was only 17 in the autumn of 1981 when I was arrested in Tehran for supporting and selling the publication of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), a political organisation opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I spent almost 11 years in Ayatollah Khomeini’s prisons in Evin, Ghezel Hesar and Gohardasht until I was finally released in the spring of 1992. During my time in prison I faced torture and mock executions. I was kept in solitary confinement for five years. But my most daunting experience was witnessing the infamous 1988 massacre.
On 19 July 1988, Khomeini, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued a
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Chinese authorities have sentenced the brother and sister of a prominent exiled Uyghur scholar and linguist to several years in jail in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), government and police officials in the region told RFA last month.
The confirmation of the sentence comes on the heels of an RFA report confirming that scholar Abduweli Ayup’s niece, Mihray Erkin, had died at the Yanbulaq internment camp while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture.
Abduweli Ayup is the founder of Uyghur Hjelp, a Norway-based Uyghur advocacy and aid organization which maintains a list of detained Uyghur intellectuals.
But China is not the first country with an abysmal rights record to deflect rebukes from Canada by citing treatment of this country s Indigenous people
Ysabella Hazan, the 21-year-old speaker at the May 16 pro-Israel rally that was followed by attacks on participants by pro-Palestinian rioters, has received numerous threats on social media in the
Ysabella Hazan, the 21-year-old co-organizer of the May 16 pro-Israel rally that was followed by attacks on participants by pro-Palestinian rioters, has received numerous threats on social media in the days following the event.
She says the threats are disgusting, and that she fears for younger members of the Jewish community.The Jewish community in various Montreal areas has also been subject to numerous social media threats, including apparent plans of action in communities like Côte St. Luc, Hampstead and Outremont.
Already, in the past week, in Côte St. Luc, verbal threats were made after which two men were arrested and a city-installed Israeli flag was stolen. One of the two arrested men in Côte St. Luc is reported to have said on Snapchat, We re going to Côte St. Luc where all the Jews are. [.] F k Israel, bunch of Jews! There was also a confrontation between anti-Israel teens and residents in Hampstead.