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Iran has once again shocked the world by its decision to imprison and ban renowned film director Jafar Panahi for making films which project political, religious realities and gender divides existing in Iran. Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years of imprisonment and has been banned for 20 years from working on any projects and making movies. [...]

US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]

Iran’s police tried to disperse crowds from a graveyard in Central Tehran where hundreds of mourners had gathered to hold special 40 day “arbayeen” ceremony for Neda. Young Neda lost her life to a bullet during the anti election result protest which rocked Iran after June 12 election results. Opposition leader Mousavi was not allowed to enter [...]

Islam is officially recognized as a legal faith in China. Ironically, the Chinese insist that the current unrest and dissent by the Uighurs has something to do with their religion that is tainting their ideology. While the Uighurs have basically been moderate and modern Muslims, the current crackdown among their ranks might just push them into that [...]

A group of young people met recently in a park, in the evening, in Tokyo. Holding banners and megaphones, they shout against the Japanese government and because of the lack of employment and opportunities. The scene is repeating often in the busy district called Koenji in Tokyo. This protest is not even close to those in Iran. Indeed, the protests [...]

A protest of Uigurs (Muslim ethnic minority) in western China has left at least 129 dead and 816 wounded since the beginning of this Sunday. The news agency Xinhua reports that the demonstrators took the streets protesting against the death of two of this Chinese ethnicity last week. The police estimated that up to 3,000 people have left the streets [...]

Weeks after the disputed elections, the fiery pro-democracy protests in Iran are almost off. However, arrests continue on more than 400 journalists and 40 politicians. The infamous militia of the Revolutionary Guards who are in charge of the dirty work are barely visible on the streets of Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, Shiraz, and Tabriz. They have been [...]

Calm seems to have descended in Tehran after week of historic protests and people’s uprising against election results. But local people call it “calm of the grave”. The mass protests may not be visible anymore but the storm of dissent is still brewing. Every night after 10 pm people go on the rooftops and voice protests through chants against [...]

Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was insulted by an Indian himself when the person hurled his footwear in Gujarat, when the PM was campaigning for the Congress party. The shoe thrower was identified as a notorious engineering student who had not even managed to scrap through his fourth semester computer engineering course. However, the culprit [...]

In Tibet, the real situation is not idyllic and allegations of repression occur almost daily. Its economy grew by 13.4% in 2006, the highest figure since 1995. In 2007, over 4 million people visited the country, and its revenues grew by 73.3% to reach 451 million euros. However, the government in exile claims that these resources have been monopolized [...]