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Convicted of promoting a "soft" revolution in Iran on January 19, 2009, and sentenced to 3 years in prison. At the time of her arrest, Harotonian was an administrative officer for a maternal and child health project in Tehran for International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), a U.S. government-funded organization. [125]
On 30 August 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council highlighted the 1988 massacre and distributed a written statement by three non-governmental organizations titled, "The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Time for the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence" [19] The statement points to the following: In ...
The Museum of the Qasr Prison (Persian: موزه زندان قصر muze-ye zendān-e qasr) is a historical complex in Tehran, Iran. Formerly referred to as the Qasr Prison ( زندان قصر zendān-e qasr , "Mansion prison"), it was one of the oldest political prisons in Iran, which is now a museum complex surrounded by a public park .
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Antonio José de Sucre was wounded in the arm and resigned. December 31, 1828 to January 1, 1829: President Pedro Blanco Soto was deposed and killed in a coup led by José Ballivián. January 22, 1839: José Miguel de Velasco overthrew Andrés de Santa Cruz. June 10, 1841: Sebastián Ágreda overthrew José Miguel de Velasco.
The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2] [3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib". [4]
The demonstrations of June 5 and 6, also called the events of June 1963 or (using the Iranian calendar) the 15 Khordad uprising (Persian: تظاهرات پانزده خرداد), [3] were protests in Iran against the arrest of Ruhollah Khomeini after his denouncement of Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Israel. [4]
On 21 July 2012, a riot began at the central prison's old building. Some guards defected and supported the rioters there. Security forces, however, surrounded the prison and clashed with prisoners leaving 3–4 people dead. Activists said between 5,000 and 6,000 prisoners were in Homs Central Prison and feared a massacre.