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India and Iran Thwart US Sanctions

26/03/2012

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Shri M. Hamid Ansari, VP, India with Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, Photo by South Asian Foreign Relations

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 10:04 AM EDT, 26 March 2012 NEW DELHI, India – Three years ago, on 13 April 2009, Shri M. Hamid Ansari, the current Vice President of India, released a book titled, “Challenges and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy” authored by Ambassador Rajiv Sikri of the International Institute for Strategic Studies [...]

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Al Khalifa’s Vendetta Against Bahraini Medics

21/03/2012

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Bahraini Medical Workers Help Injured Protester, Photo by Bahrainiac

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:14 PM EDT, 21 March 2012 BAHRAIN – On Tuesday, 20 March 2012, the Bahraini attorney general concluded his summation in the government’s case against the medics who defied an injunction against treating wounded Arab Spring protesters last year. Although, the prosecutor initially suggested that the charges against the 20 [...]

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Murder of the Equal Sex

20/06/2011

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Arab Woman Flogged in Street

In the Middle East and North Africa women rights are coming to the forefront as they begin their modern-day suffragette movement amidst the recent uprisings – now known as the “Arab Spring”. Suffragette “derived from the word “suffrage“, means the right to vote,” however; women across the Middle East are fighting for more than the [...]

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Iran Halts Ordered Stoning Death

17/09/2010

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Stoning of Woman

Hello. I read your recent article about stoning to death. Reading your article reminded me of the bleeding bruises in my heart once again.

You wrote about murdering by stoning?

Have you ever held a bloody tool in your hands with which they have murdered your mother?
Have you ever touched the bloody skin and hair of your mother who has just been killed in a deep hole?
Have you ever followed the line of your mother’s blood in order to find her corpse thrown at the back of a truck?

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Lioness of Iran’s ‘Strange Fruit’

29/05/2010

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Majid Kavousifar, a 28-year-old Iranian Muslim Hanged

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:25 PM EDT, 29 May 2010 IRAN – Five Kurdish political prisoners were executed 9 May 2010 in Iran. One of the prisoners was a young woman named Shirin Alam Holi. Arrested in May 2008 in Tehran, the twenty-eight year old was sentenced to death for her alleged support of [...]

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