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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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Omani officials, who maintain good relations with both Iran and the U.S., reportedly played a key role in negotiations with Iran and may have paid the almost $1 million bail. [ 44 ] The two men were released from prison and flown back to the United States via Oman on September 21, 2011, following a 10 billion rial [ 5 ] (about US$930,000) [ 25 ...
The assault on the prison was spearheaded by Warrior IFV's and Challenger 2 tanks breaking down the walls and destroying cars and flimsy buildings. [6] Eyewitness reports claimed that the assault allowed 150 prisoners to flee the prison. [1] [7] The Ministry of Defence (MoD) initially denied storming the prison. [8]
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 Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London. The gunmen, Iranian Arabs campaigning for sovereignty of Khuzestan Province , took 26 people hostage, including embassy staff, several visitors, and a police officer who had ...