Tag: Iran trial

Translation via Mousavi’s facebook page: Mehdi Karoubi welcomed the recent remarks made by Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the General Prosecutor, in which he promised to “take Mousavi and Karoub...

Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Facebook page is reporting: Mehdi Karoubi welcomed the recent remarks made by Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the General Prosecutor, in which he promised to “take Mousavi a...

The Iranian American Bar Association released a white paper this week outlining the rights of detainees and accused persons in the legal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The paper is a valuab...

The indispensable Evan Siegel has painstakingly translated the second indictment in all its tedium.  Key points: During yesterday’s session, in the first introduction to the Tehran court’s charge...

Mousavi Forms “Green Way of Hope” (NYT) The Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi announced the formation of a new social and political movement on his Web site on Saturday, follo...

The L.A. Times examines the significance of Iran’s mass trials: Not only have they [the trails] failed to silence the opposition or quell protests, including one that erupted outside the court b...

As the LA Times story below makes clear, the Iranian government is trying to portray the massive demonstrations in Tehran and other cities across Iran as part of a foreign conspiracy against Iran and ...

The LA Times has the latest on Iran’s mass trial: Twitter, Facebook and Google’s newly introduced Persian-to-English translation software were part of a vast foreign conspiracy against Ira...

Charges of Treason Against Mousavi and Khatami Grow Louder (AFP): [A] group of Iranian MPs have filed a complaint to the judiciary against Mousavi over the post-election violence, the Fars news agency...

Iran Begins Trial of Protesters (AP): More than 100 opposition political activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring to topple the ruling system in the...