Asadian: Es ist falsch, vor allem Menschen mit grünen Fahnen oder Plakaten zu zeigen. Grün ist die Farbe Mussawis und derjenigen, die innerhalb des bestehenden Regimes Reformen wollen. Die Mehrheit der Menschen auf der Straße trägt aber nichts Grünes, weil es ihnen um ein ganz anderes System geht. Sie halten das Regime für nicht reformierbar. Die Menschen haben auch nicht vergessen, dass seinerzeit unter dem Ministerpräsidenten Mussawi Tausende politische Gegner verschwanden.
In July 2003, Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was tortured and murdered by Iranian security agents after she attempted to report on the growing opposition movement in Iran. FRONTLINE/World correspondent Jane Kokan risks her personal safety to follow in Kazemi's footsteps, traveling undercover to Iran to investigate the clerical regime's latest crackdown on students, journalists and dissidents. "I want to find out what happened to [Kazemi]," says Kokan, "and the story she died trying to tell."
Internationally, much attention is given to the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiations, but almost no attention is directed at the numerous human rights violations perpetrated against Iranian men, women, and young people by the mullahs.
A Few Simple Shots is a documentary film produced by an independent Canadian filmmaker. Despite its small production budget, it has received considerable attention. It provides detailed evidence of the systematic brutalization and torture of the Iranian people and portrays this brutality as the essence of the Iranian regime, not simply a technique to ensure its own survival.
Hwang Jang-yeop, a former secretary of the Workers' Party, testified that in the mid 1990s he witnessed the following event: Upon learning from the secretary of military supplies that dogs were to be used in the testing of newly developed weapons, Kim Jong-il ordered him to use humans; he would arrange for the use of political prisoners.
[Lee Soon-ok] spoke about the use of prisoners as guinea pigs, which a senior U.S. official describes as “very plausible. We have heard similar reports.”
“I saw so many poor victims,” she said. “Hundreds of people became victims of biochemical testing. I was imprisoned in 1987 and during the years of 1988 through ’93, when I was released, I saw the research supervisors — they were enjoying the effect of biochemical weapons, effective beyond their expectations — they were saying they were successful.”
"If you are born mentally or physically deficient, says Im, the government says your best contribution to society… is as a guinea pig for biological and chemical weapons testing.
[...]
Other North Korean defectors have long alleged that the secretive nation has been using political prisoners as experimental test subjects.
Some have detailed how inmates were shipped from various concentration camps to so-called chemical "factories".
[...]
"Human experimentation is a widespread practice," Kim says.
"I hoped I was wrong, but it is the reality and it is taking place in North Korea and it is taking place at a number of locations.""
"Glaube ist eigentlich etwas Persönliches, etwas, das jeder mit sich selbst ausmachen kann. Bei den großen dogmatischen Weltreligionen geht es viel mehr darum, durch den Glauben die jeweilige Lebenssituation der Menschen zu ordnen und zu verbessern, denn Religion ist nichts anderes als ein Gesetz für Asoziale."
"Loben Sie ruhig auch einmal die Errungenschaften der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur, ohne dabei allerdings Ihre Betroffenheit zu sehr zu vernachlässigen. Seien Sie ganz sicher, es gibt vieles, was man lobend erwähnen kann. Autobahnen, Arbeitsplätze, Architektur."
"Dürfen Frauen, die einen Schleier tragen, den Führerschein machen, und warum tragen manche Frauen einen Schleier und gleichzeitig einen Stringtanga?"
"We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community. Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping," North Korea said in response on Thursday.
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"There is no place to go for North Korea; they have no friends left that will protect them from the international community's efforts to move towards denuclearisation."
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"A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published by the Korean Bar Association, details the daily lives of 200,000 political prisoners estimated to be in the camps: Eating a diet of mostly corn and salt, they lose their teeth, their gums turn black, their bones weaken and, as they age, they hunch over at the waist. Most work 12- to 15-hour days until they die of malnutrition-related illnesses, usually around the age of 50. Allowed just one set of clothes, they live and die in rags, without soap, socks, underclothes or sanitary napkins."
[A serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia] said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so "impressed my superiors" that, at 18, "I was given the 'honor' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death."
In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband."
"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," he said.
Why the regret, if the marriages were "legal?"
"Because," he went on, "I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.
"I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over," he said. "I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her."
"[Kim Jong-un] proudly showed off photographs of himself standing with Toni Kukoc of the Chicago Bulls and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. It is unclear where the pictures were taken. On at least one occasion, a car from the North Korean Embassy drove Pak Un to Paris to watch an NBA exhibition game," the daily said.
The man with loud speaker screams: "death to US, Death to Isreal, Death to the infidels, Death to England" and so on, but the crowd answers "death to Russia"... EVERY time they scream "death to Russia"
"North Korea earns over US$2 billion annually in arms deals with Iran, according to Larry Niksch, a specialist in Asian affairs with the U.S. Congressional Research Service. [...]
Niksch said Iran, Syria, and Burma have recently become major customers of North Korea."
"For instance, the North took a roundabout land route via China and Russia, which is harder to trace, or used transport planes at night. It also exported weapons by building assembly factories in importing countries. To circumvent an entry ban on its ships in ports, North Korean chartered ships under the names of foreigners, falsified the country of origin, or did business through a third country."
"There are many horrible stories about the North Korean regime's disregard for human rights, but I recently heard one that's hard to forget: On a recent trip to Seoul, a North Korean mother told me she and her 14-year-old daughter fled North Korea but were separated in China. The mother waited in China to reunite with her daughter only to discover that Chinese security agents had forced the girl back to North Korea, where border guards beat her to death.
It is hard to conceive of human beings who are capable of killing a 14-year-old girl simply for fleeing with her mother in search of a better life. Yet these same monsters are continuing this brutality in detention centers and political prison camps all over North Korea. [...]"
"This heartfelt incident of el-Sherbini's martyrdom is a clear evidence of corruption in German judiciary system and a disgrace to the United Nations," Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
He slammed the violation of human rights in Germany, saying, "The attitude of Germany and most of Western countries to her killing is similar to their stance on the massacre of innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."
"They stood by and witnessed the killing of the Palestinian people but finally condemned the Palestinians," he added. [...]
"Today, the German government is acting like slavers. [It] smiles at this crime (el-Sherbini's murder) and doesn't even express regret," Ahmadinejad said.
The Iranian president also called on the UN Security Council to condemn Germany. "We request the Security Council to condemn and impose sanctions on them (Germany)." PressTV & Welt Online
Dialog. Dialog. Dialog. Bis zum Atomblitz. Oder bloß bis zum Plattwalzen von Menschen auf irgendeinem Platz der „Freiheit“.
[The head of the telecommunications agency] said in a speech to the National Assembly that cable channels with at least 70 percent of their content produced in Venezuela would begin to be regulated by local broadcast laws, which include a measure requiring all broadcasters to carry Chavez's speeches when the president deems appropriate.
An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people crowded the streets and headed toward Tehran University, the site of the 1999 student uprising.
Several protesters were hit on the arms and backs by the Basij, the journalist reported. The militia tried to persuade one man, whose face was bleeding, to get into an ambulance, but he refused. CNN
According to one witness, police fired shots in the air above the crowd and swooped to arrest at least 10 protesters at one location in Tehran. One elderly man was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and put in a police bus after he shouted: "Death to the dictator." Another witness reported clashes in another part of the city.
The police stopped the cars of those supporting the protest and confiscated driver licences, a second witness said. The Gurdian
"The only escapee of North Koreas most brutal prison camp has lived to tell us a story of unspeakable horror. Starved of food and common humanity, Shin proves that gulags are still a tragic reality."
[Rebiya] Kadeer wirft den islamischen Ländern vor, zu den Vorfällen zu schweigen. Viele der Nachbarländer hätten Uiguren, die wegen der politischen Verfolgung flüchten mussten, wieder deportiert. Wenn sie nach China abgeschoben wurden, seien sie entweder getötet oder eingesperrt worden. Die mangelnde Handlungsbereitschaft der muslimischen Staaten habe zum Erfolg der chinesischen Propaganda beigetragen. Die Uiguren seien an sich sehr moderne und prowestliche Muslime.
"The North Koreans are coming to the table not for negotiation; they are there for winning, for implementing their strategy," [Kim Kwang Jin a North Korean defector] said. To grant meaningful concessions at such negotiations, or to enact meaningful internal reforms toward democratization, would, Kim says, be tantamount to "suicide to the regime."
Yet Kim also believes financial sanctions can compel better behavior from Pyongyang, and cites as an example the Treasury Department's targeting from 2005 to 2008 of Banco Delta Asia [...]
Affen haben ein grundsätzlich gespaltenes Verhältnis zum Eigentum. Sie nehmen alles weg, wollen es dann aber um keinen Preis wieder hergeben. Insofern wundert es nicht, dass einer von ihnen Vorsitzender der Linkspartei ist. Oskar ist zwar nicht direkt Makake, aber im metaphorisch-mentalen Sinne irgendwie primatenartig veranlagt, was seine Ansicht zum Privatbesitz angeht
