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It doesn't much matter who wins the Iranian presidential election, scheduled to take place the day after this issue goes to print.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
It doesn't much matter who wins the Iranian presidential election, scheduled to take place the day after this issue goes to print. The all-powerful Guardian Council, appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei, disqualified about 1,000 potential candidates, ultimately reducing the field to eight. Moreover, whoever is elected will be subordinate to, and limited by, that clerical body. Dissidents and student leaders have encouraged a nationwide boycott to deny legitimacy to what they see as a sham process, and protests against the regime--already a mainstay of Iranian life--have picked up in recent weeks. For instance, a number of political prisoners have gone on hunger strike, including the ...
- Akbar Ganji: a former tenant of Tehran's infamous Evin prison and award-winning...
- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy Ganji, Akbar November 1, 2009 700+ words
...pay a huge price to learn this truth. [During the 1997 presidential election], I took advantage of a precious opportunity to expose...the people of Iran. Human rights are a global matter. Akbar Ganji is author of Dungeon of Ghosts and The Road to Democracy...
- A top dissident refuses to give in; Iran.(The fate of an Iranian dissident,...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 10, 2005 700+ words
Unyielding Ganji, silenced and alone Akbar Ganji, Iran's most outstanding dissident, is in renewed danger LAST March, during the Persian New Year holiday, Akbar Ganji, Iran's best-known political prisoner, was cracking jokes into his...
- Testing limits of dissent in Iran; Iran's judiciary said Thursday it will not...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor July 15, 2005 700+ words
...Christian Science Monitor TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji entered the 33rd day of his hunger strike Thursday, demanding...The following is excerpted from a letter by jailed Iranian Akbar Ganji. "Islamic Prosecutor [Saeed Mortazavi] speaks openly of...
- Akbar Ganji: "justice in the face of tyranny".
- Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly Nourani, Sana January 1, 2006 700+ words
Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji earned the Islamic Republic's ire in 1999 as he investigated the murders the previous year of several prominent Iranian dissidents...
- Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for...
- Magazine article from: National Review August 8, 2005 700+ words
Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for nearly 40 days before being transferred, shortly before this magazine went to print, from the infirmary...
- IRAN - May 15 - Leading Dissident's Sentence Reviewed.(Akbar Ganji)(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder May 19, 2001 700+ words
Gholam Ali Riyahi, the lawyer of the reformist journalist Akbar Ganji, is quoted by the official press agency IRNA as saying the appeals court has upheld only one of four charges brought against Ganji...
- IRAN - Nov.9 - Reformer Says Regime Tortured Him.(Akbar Ganji)(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder November 11, 2000 700+ words
Prominent reformist journalist Akbar Ganji at a Revolutionary Court says he was beaten and forced to wear the prison uniform of a common criminal, indicating injuries in...
- IRAN - Jan. 23 - Ganji To Fight.(imprisoned liberal journalist Akbar...
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder January 27, 2001 700+ words
IHT reports smuggled answers to its questions from Tehran's Evin prison by liberal journalist Akbar Ganji (who began serving a 10-year jail sentence). He says: "I am an ideological prisoner and I am proud of that. It is a great...