Reuters reports that the United Nations lifts the issue of discrimination against Iran’s different non-Persian nationalities:
Iran should do more to protect its ethnic minorities such as Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday.The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a group of 18 independent rights [...]
Yesterday I held a lecture about the Iranian Kurdistan for members of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth (SSU) in Stockholm. SSU is currently organizing a series of lectures about the different parts of Kurdistan and I was invited to speak about the Kurds in Iran – with focus on methods of struggle, future opportunities and [...]
The Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran held its annual meeting in Stockholm on the 4th and 5th of December in Stockholm. Currently, 16 political organizations from Iran’s major nationalities (Ahwazi Arabs, Balouch, Kurds, Azeri Turks, Turkoman and Bahkhtyari/Lor) are members of the Congress.
The congress seeks to attain national rights for Iran’s different nationalities [...]
Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Motazeri, who is linked to the reformist faction of the Islamic Republic, issued a religious Fatwa in which he writs that Iran’s ethnic minorities must be allowed to study their mother tongue in schools.
And in another statement Motazeri also urges Iran’s different ethnic groups, in particular the Azeri and Kurdish nations, to [...]
Iran has shut down a student magazine called “Chrikei Beyan” two days ago. Kurdish students at Tabriz University published the magazine.
The Kurdish students started to publish the magazine four years ago and have been able to publish 15 issues of the magazine. The reason for shutting down the magazine seems to be that a couple [...]
