The below reading of my interview with آسو - Aasoo about Iran's democracy movement is cherry-picked, improperly translated, and on several occasions conflates the interviewer's questions with my answers. This distorts my intentions and is totally unprofessional. The full version

'As long as Iran is ruled by an Islamist government that puts its revolutionary ideology before the national interest, the Middle East will never know meaningful stability.'

On 17 May 1990, the World Health Organisation finally removed homosexuality from its classification of diseases.

It gave birth to IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia & Transphobia.

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Punishment in response to a complaint filed by Shar’a?
Altun explained that her post was a reply & wasn’t intended against religious freedom. She would appeal the sentence, and didn’t regret her post
“I cannot condone Sharia law in my country, because Turkey is a secular state,”

May 17 = 20th anniversary of the passing of #Algerian 🇩🇿 anthropologist Mahfoud Bennoune, veteran of the independence struggle, ex POW

Pls remember him by
-donating to the award named for him CMENAS:
tinyurl.com/8sd9a3ab
-reading his work @ mahfoudbennoune.com & in🧵

ویژه برنامه بیستمین سالگرد روز جهانی مبارزه با ستیز علیه جامعه‌ ال‌جی‌بی‌تی‌کیو پلاس با حضور ‌رویا برومند، ‌آرتمیس اکبری، نیما نیما و روایت‌های اعضای این جامعه از ایران را فردا ساعت ۱:۳۰بعد از ظهر ایران می‌توانید از صدای آمریکا مشاهده کنید
Artemis Akbary
Roya Boroumand
nimania/خانوم توانا🔻

A message to perpetrators who are used to get away with murder! Thank you TRIAL International and Philip Grant

So excited to be in Geneva to speak at the UN as part of the The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy 2024!

«به خاطر شلوارم اجازه ورود به مترو را به من ندادن»

UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on peaceful activist, demand moratorium on death penalty

Iran must immediately revoke the death sentence imposed on anti-corruption activist #MahmoudMehrabi and stop sentencing people to death for expressing their opinions, United Nations

Tribeca Festival co-founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro call for the release of Iranian renowned filmmaker #MohammadRasoulof Rasoulof, who has been unjustly sentenced to eight years imprisonment in his home country for his films and peaceful dissent.

#Iran
#محمد_رسول‌اف

Isfahan 😭❤️

In 1980, Iran Rahimpur, a pregnant Baha'i woman, was detained without access to a lawyer. She gave birth in custody & was later executed, leaving her newborn behind. Islamic Republic authorities never returned her body.

Read more on #OmidMemorial
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با الهام از آخرین گزارش مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر، که شامل گفته های تاسف بار زنان و ارائه دهندگان خدمات مستقیما تحت تاثیر قرار گرفته است، سازمان های امضا کننده این نامه خواستار اقدام قاطع بین المللی برای رسیدگی به نقض سیستماتیک حقوق جنسی و باروری زنان در ایران هستند.

Akbar Bahadari was an orthopedic surgeon in Iran's Imperial Army and a parliamentary representative.
On May 10, 1979, the Islamic Republic executed him on charges that included 'making erroneous decisions in parliament.'
Read more on #OmidMemorial :
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دکتر اکبر بهادری جراح ارتوپدیست ارتش شاهنشاهی ایران و نماینده مجلس از اراک بود.
جمهوری‌اسلامی او را در ۲۰ اردی‌بهشت ۱۳۵۸ به اتهاماتی از جمله «تصمیم‌گیری‌های غلط در مجلس» اعدام کرد.
بیشتر در #یادبودامید :
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Joint Statement on Women’s Reproductive Health

Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, along with 15 other human rights organizations, have released a joint statement urging the international community and human rights activists to unite in condemning Iran’s

نازنین بنیادی، بازیگر و مدافع حقوق بشر در پادکستی با مجله «ددلاین هالیوود» در مورد #توماج_صالحی گفت: «او مورد شکنجه قرار گرفت و صدور حکم اعدام برای او خشم عمومی را برانگیخت. توماج بسیار محبوب هست و صدای او مردم ایران را نمایندگی می‌کند، برای همین او فراتر از فقط یک شخص است و ما

ICYMI: 300+ Iranian musicians have issued a collective statement expressing strong opposition to the death penalty handed down to rapper Toomaj Salehi in Iran.

They praised Toomaj as 'a champion of the righteous aspirations of an entire generation of Iranians' and criticized the

Iranian rapper توماج صالحی🌋 has been sentenced to death. Please share to help #FreeToomaj‌