Iran: Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother

Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother

Sahar Beheshti, sister of slain blogger Sattar Beheshti wrote on her Facebook page after visiting Sattar’s grave on the third anniversary of his murder, “It is unimaginable to live without you…

My dear Sattar! Today, it has been three years, but like three centuries of pains without you.

During these years without you, Mother always whispers to herself before reaching your grave: ‘Dear Sattar, you should have been the one coming to my grave, not me to yours!’ She always speaks about her moments with you.

However, whenever she remembers that horrific Tuesday, October 30, 2012, she sighs from deep down in her heart. The day that they took you away forever. I nearly cry after hearing her deep sighs. I am waiting, waiting for the day your death is avenged.”

Sattar Beheshti was a young blogger who was arrested for his blogs and was murdered under torture in the hands of the Iranian regime’s FATA police within 4 days of his arrest. His elderly mother, has not stopped to protest since his death.

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests

Reyhaneh Jabbari was a 26-year-old woman who was executed for defending herself to rape by an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence. Her mother Mrs. Shole Pakravan,

has issued a post on social media calling the Iranian people to take a stand against the following:

The daily increase of executions and bloodshed;

Torture of political prisoners;

Trafficking of Iranian girls;

The increasing corruption;

The Plundering of our nation’s wealth

Mrs. Pakravan has asked the Iranian people to rise, take action, and break the silence! To   stand firm in defense of justice, and to consider justice and freedom far more important issues than even our daily meals

Iran: 40th-day memorial ceremony in honor of fellow student

Razieh Shokraneh

Students of Maragheh University (northwest Iran) held a ceremony commemorating a fellow girl student who had committed suicide 40 days ago by taking rice pills on October 21, 2015.

RaziehShokraneh was a sophomore student of Applied Chemistry at the School of Basic Sciences of Maragheh. She was under a lot of pressure from university officials and had been summoned repeatedly by the intelligence office at the university. She committed suicide at her dormitory called Vali-Asr. She died at hospital due to severe poisoning

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Iran: Nursing students protests across the country

Nursing students and their professors at the University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan formed a human chain on Monday, November 30, 2015, to protest a recent Health Ministry directive to hospitals to train people for nursing without having to attend courses at school, according to the website of the NCRI Women’sCommittee.

They demanded cancellation of the government decision in this regard.

On the same day, nursing students at the Medical School of Neishaboor (central north Iran) staged a protest and signed a petition demanding cancellation of the plan for one-year training of nurses at hospitals.

On Saturday, November 28, students of nursing at the University of Tabriz staged a gathering and signed a petition calling for cancellation of nurses' training at hospitals.

On Monday, November 30, the Nursing Community of Aligoodarz (southwest Iran) joined students in other cities and wrote an open letter to officials describing the Health Ministry's plan as "anti-popular" and a serious blow to the country's social health.

A woman appointed as Commonwealth secretary-general

Baroness Patricia Scotland

BaronessPatricia Scotland, the first woman to be appointed Commonwealth secretary-general, says she will "put the women's agenda very strongly on the table".

Commonwealth leaders meeting in Malta chose Scotland on Friday, November 27, 2015, after a fraught and extended meeting to choose between three candidates.

She is to take over from Kamalesh Sharma, who has served in the role for eight years.

Scotland, a lawyer who has dual British and Dominican citizenship, served as minister of state, deputy home secretary and attorney-general under the previous Labour government in the UK.

She was the first black woman to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel in the UK and at the age of 35, was also the youngest woman.

After Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced her appointment to reporters, she said she was "incredibly proud" to be the first woman to hold the post.

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy with detainees

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy

Mrs.Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed in detention by the Iranian regime’s FATA police, wrote a letter expressing her sympathy with protesters arrested outside Evin Prison.

Her letter reads in part, “I consider silence, treason to you all because you have always supported me. I have to pay you back for your kindness.

Dear Akram Neghabi, I heard that your husband was mistreated so that he can feel how they treated your child, or maybe they were trying to tell you that we will make you disappear like your loved ones.

Simin Avazzadeh, mother of Omid Ali Shenas, my good friend of hard times, it is as if a meaningful silence has engulfed the entire country.

داریوش سلحشور میلیشیای قهرمان، داریوش سلحشور، در میان اسرای مجاهد خلق در زندان اوین، به‌مهدی رضایی مشهور بود.