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		<title>AIUSA Nowruz holiday action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Persian holiday Nowruz (“new day”) is an ancient holiday celebrated on the first day of spring to welcome in the new year. Traditional Nowruz celebrations include the preparation of a Haft Sin table which literally means the seven S’s. Seven items beginning with the Persian letter Sîn (equivalent to the English letter S) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1548&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unite for human rights in Iran on February 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, two men were hanged after being accused of inciting the post-June 12 election violence that erupted last summer in Iran. The Iranian government failed to answer one key question &#8211; how could these men have been responsible for the violence when they were being held in detention long before it even occurred? As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1507&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak out for Iranian activist Emadeddin Baghi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian authorities arrested internationally acclaimed human rights advocate Emadeddin Baghi on December 28th. More than one week later, his family still has not heard from him. Baghi suffered seizures and a heart attack during a previous prison term. His health hangs in the balance as he languishes in incommunicado detention. Baghi is no stranger to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1466&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International Joins Worldwide Solidarity for Iranians</title>
		<link>http://aipdx.org/2009/07/29/amnesty-international-joins-worldwide-solidarity-for-iranians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sherry Harbert Amnesty International joined a coalition of international organizations around the world to support the victims of human rights abuses in Iran on July 25. Portland was one of over a hundred cities which gathered together to express concern and solidarity with those detained for peacefully protesting the June election results. The Global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1270&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human rights activist Abdolfattah Soltani arrested in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world has watched with shock and a profound sense of dismay the scenes of bloody, rampant violence that have filled the streets of Tehran and other cities in the wake of Iran&#8217;s hotly contested presidential elections. But behind the scenes, Iranian authorities are conducting a simultaneous effort aimed at silencing dissident voices through arbitrary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1236&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urgent Action &#8211; Excessive use of force against demonstrators (Iran)</title>
		<link>http://aipdx.org/2009/06/17/urgent-action-excessive-use-of-force-against-demonstrators-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15 June 2009 UA 150/09 &#8211; Fear of excessive use of force/torture (PDF) IRAN &#8211; Demonstrators against announcement of re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Thousands of people, mainly supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has challenged the announcement that current President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had won the 12 June presidential election have been demonstrating, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1227&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran must release Roxana Saberi now</title>
		<link>http://aipdx.org/2009/04/29/iran-must-release-roxana-saberi-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update &#8211; May 12, 2009 Roxana Saberi was released on May 11, 2009. Thank you all for taking action on her behalf. Check out AI&#8217;s comments on her release. ———————————————— Iran recently sentenced Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old journalist who holds both U.S. and Iranian citizenship, to eight years in prison on charges of espionage after a brief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aipdx.org&amp;blog=3112466&amp;post=1102&amp;subd=aipdx&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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