On May 2, 2012, Father Modaber, head of Muhabbat News TV, a satellite channel for Iranian Christians, stated during an interview with Deutsche Welle Persian that Iranian officials have threatened Iranian Christians abroad who seek asylum.

“A group called Sepah 400 sends emails and text messages to people who converted to christianity, threatening to kill them or harm their families in Iran,” said Priest Modaber to DW. “Life inside Iran has become so horrible for these newly converted people that many of them are forced to leave the country, but yet the threats continue out of Iran.”
             
According to Muhabbat...

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Inciting Genocide Is a Crime
By ROBERT BERNSTEIN, IRWIN COTLER AND STUART ROBINOWITZ
May 02, 2012
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Many of Iran’s crimes are well-known to Americans and observers world-wide. The Tehran regime wants to build a nuclear weapon despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; it supports the brutal crackdown of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad against his own people; it is the leading state sponsor of terrorism, killing innocents from Argentina to Lebanon, Afghanistan and beyond; and it is...

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Finally, some great news from the Middle East. Days ago, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Hamas established a force “whose sole task is to prevent the firing of rockets into Israel.” While some seek to paint Hamas as a monolithic terrorist group that cannot be negotiated with, this development makes clear that the organization is taking concrete steps toward peace. “Interesting news from Gaza,” Israeli activist Gershon Baskin wrote, contrasting Hamas’ move with Israel’s “deepening and expanding the occupation.”

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Five years after being jailed, beaten, and tortured by government forces as a student in Damascus, Ahed al-Hendi is a Syrian dissident in the U.S. calling for Washington to arm the opposition fighting President Bashar al-Assad and his forces.

“We want it to be peaceful,” said Hendi, a member of the Syrian American Council, an organization that promotes civil liberties in Syria. “But all indicators on the ground show that nothing will stop this regime [except] an intervention or military.”

Some Syrians living in exile in the U.S., like...

Event: Advancing Human Rights Reporting

The Fund for Peace Event
May 11, 2012
10.00 am - 11.30 am
Washington, D.C.

As the global human rights discourse evolves to confront today’s challenges, there continue to be a number of limitations in the capacity of organizations to effectively promote and protect human rights throughout the world. These limitations include weak global compliance, uneven regional efforts, and the inability of human rights organizations to apply punitive measures or provide technical advice to actually address human rights violations, rather than just highlight them. Too often organizations may find...

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The relatively liberal Kuwait has approved the death penalty for citizens mocking any aspect of Muslim religion. David Keyes on the problem that poses a dilemma for its U.S. ally—and whether the law can be overturned.

Yesterday, nearly every member of the Kuwaiti Parliament voted for a law that mandates the death penalty for anyone who mocks God, the Koran, Muslim prophets, or Muhammad’s wives. Most of the six parliamentarians who voted against the bill did so because it did not stipulate death for anyone who insults Shiite imams as well....

The following excerpt comes from a Macleans.ca article titled, “Irwin Cotler’s secret: calm amid the chaos.” To access the original, click here.

Cotler has since used the same strategy to help free Nelson Mandela, Andrei Sakharov, Argentinian journalist Jacobo Timerman, Egyptian professor and staunch Mubarak critic Saad Eddin Ibrahim, among dozens of others. Most recently, Cotler’s advocacy helped lead to the release of Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil, whose criticism of Egypt’s military junta following the fall of president Hosni Mubarak earned him the dubious honour of being the country’s first political prisoner of the...

The following article first appeared on The Wall Street Journal. To access, click HERE

Many of Iran’s crimes are well-known to Americans and observers world-wide. The Tehran regime wants to build a nuclear weapon despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; it supports the brutal crackdown of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad against his own people; it is the leading state sponsor of terrorism, killing innocents from Argentina to Lebanon, Afghanistan and beyond; and it is engaged in massive domestic repression. Less recognized, however, is the legal significance of Iran’s genocidal anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric,...

We would like to invite all of our readers, especially campus ambassadors, to participate in a conference call with Syrian dissident Hadeel Kouki. Hadeel’s activism began when she was studying Law and English Literature at the University of Aleppo. After the outbreak of the uprising in Syria in January, 2012, Hadeel became an active participant in peaceful demonstrations. She was arrested on March 10, 2011, for distributing pro-democracy flyers and was jailed for 40 days. She was arrested for participating in pro-democracy demonstrations on August 13, 2011, and again on September 11, 2011. Fearing the Syrian intelligence forces,...