Dr. Raha Didevar was born in Tehran and is the fifth generation of Fath Ali Shah Qajar. He lived in Iran until he was three years old and emigrated with his family to London, England after the Iran-Iraq war.His father, Prince Didevar, died of leukemia when he was only six years old. His mother raised him alone and they immigrated ... Read More »
Under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 we are offered “protection for a person’s private and family life, home and correspondence from arbitrary interference by the State,” whereby our privacy can only be breached if a number of conditions are satisfied. The key point though is that it only applies to the State; invasion of privacy by another ... Read More »
General Mehdi Rahimi is one of 438 victims listed in a March 13, 1980 Amnesty International report. The report lists defendants who were convicted by Revolutionary Tribunals in the period from their inception until 12 August 1979. The list of victims and charges is drawn from sources including translations of indictments, reports of trials carried out by local and foreign ... Read More »
Firouzeh Vokhshouri (born 7 August 1948) is a Jordanian diplomat and former member of the Jordanian royal family. She was married to Prince Asem bin Nayef from 1974 through 1985. She has three daughters with her ex-husband: Princess Yasmin (born 30 June 1975), Princess Sarah (born 12 August 1978), Princess Noor (born 6 October 1982). Vokhshouri has been an attaché ... Read More »
Elahe Sharifpour-Hicks has been defending human rights for more than two decades. She was the Iran researcher for the Human Rights Watch from 1994 to 2001, and is currently the manager of Human Rights and Planning at New York. On the tenth anniversary of the Human Rights Activists (HRAI), Ms. Sharifpour-Hicks tells Peace Line monthly: “The most positive feature of ... Read More »
Mahmoud Khazein, Omid Noori, Alireza Shahvaroghi Farahani, and Kiya Sadeghi are wanted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap, to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to commit bank and wire fraud, and to commit money laundering. The charges relate to the actions by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to target Iranian dissidents. The regime views these dissidents ... Read More »
Diba, and Jehan Sadat have a friendship that started in 1970 when President Anwar Sadat stepped up to power in Egypt and established a higher level of relations with the Shah of Iran, including a number of memorandums and political and economic agreements unmatched in bilateral relations. Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, found refuge in Cairo after the Iranian ... Read More »
While many coffee shop customers associate your café with leisurely afternoons spent reading and sipping their favorite drinks, it’s a different story on the other side of the counter. By learning how to make your coffee shop more efficient, you can increase your profits while allowing your employees to focus more of their attention on customer satisfaction. You can’t fix ... Read More »
Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award Laureate 2018 Sadegh Zibakalam (Tehran University, Professor of Political Science) and Leila Zibakalam (daughter of Sadegh Zibakalam, the Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award Laureate 2018). Sadegh Zibakalam is a professor of political science at the University of Tehran, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals and political analysts in the country. With ... Read More »
The federal government has named a legal expert as senior adviser to Global Affairs Canada on the shooting down of a passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people. The government says in a release that Payam Akhavan, Senior Fellow at Massey College and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Toronto, will provide advice on all matters pertaining to ... Read More »