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Iranian activist speaks out against regime’s mock courts, executions

Iranian activist speaks out against regime’s mock courts, executions

Aug 11
Al-Arabiya Wednesday, 10 August 2016   Prominent Iranian activist, member of the teachers’ union and former political prisoner Hashem Khastar, said that executions in Iran are carried out in mock courts that resemble “dark rooms” amid the absence of minimum of legal standards. Khastar, who resides in Mashhad in northwestern…
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Two Misguided Reports

  • HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Report
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Report
    On 18 May 2005, the US based Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) issued a 28-page report (“the HRW Report”) concerning the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (“PMOI / MEK”).  Entitled ‘No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps’, the HRW Report was essentially based on 12 hours of telephone interviews with 12…
  • Courting Disaster, A response to Rand report on People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran
    Courting Disaster, A response to Rand report on People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran
    The RAND National Defense Research Institute published in July 2009 the report The Mujahedin-e Khalq: A Policy Conundrum for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, Task Force 134 (Detainee Operations). The report focuses on the circumstances surrounding the detention of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) at Camp Ashraf and “whether MeK members were taken into custody…