U.S. Secret services wanted to pull protective detail for Erdogan after he gave order to attack demonstrators.

U.S. Secret services wanted to pull protective detail for Erdogan after he gave order to attack demonstrators. HT: Washingtonhatti.

The Americans were aware that Erdogan gave the attack order during the incident. The US protocol and protection team, who were very upset about the incident, decided to pull protective detail from Erdogan.

After President Erdogan came to the residence by car and seemingly ordered the attack on the protesters, the American security forces informed the Embassy officials that they are going pull their protection. According to unnamed sources, this created a situation where President Erdogan would not have a protective Secret Service detail going to the airport.

The Embassy, according to our sources, managed to keep the US Secret Service Protection by pointing out that especially following the events, “Erdogan might become a target.”

US Secret Service did not comment WHatti‘s email request. Read the full story here.

'Islamist Dictatorship' Turkey Systematically Jails Women In Persecution Of Critics.

'Islamist Dictatorship' Turkey Systematically Jails Women In Persecution Of Critics. HT: stockholmcf.org.

As part of escalating crackdown on dissent and criticism which landed almost 50,000 people in jail in the last six months alone, Turkish government has aggressively started to persecute women who already bear the brunt of the unprecedented witch-hunt campaign by the country’s Islamist rulers.

A woman got detained right after the delivery of her baby in hospital while another woman was jailed as she was visiting imprisoned husband, leaving her kids stranded in a parking lot in a car under the care of elder brother. A woman who lost sanity under torture in police detention was thrown back to prison despite diagnosis while a woman was jailed because her husband, a journalist, remained at large. The government jailed wives of businessman who are seen supporting the opposition to Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the government seized all their business and personal assets.

Everyday dozens of women get arrested in Turkey on false charges of terror and coup plotting in a systematic persecution campaign launched by the country’s autocratic President Erdoğan who declared a “merciless’ crack down on his critics and opponents. Among those who face harsh treatment in detentions and prisons include mostly women of Gülen movement and Kurdish political movement. Alevis and leftist groups also get their fair share of oppression under the current repressive regime.

The persecution of women who are perceived to be critics of the government has picked up a pace after the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that appears to be staged to set up Erdoğan’s critics for a mass persecution. By targeting especially women, Erdoğan and his partners in the government hopes to break the will of government critics while undermining crucial role of women in supporting the community members, taking care of children who are separated from their jailed fathers.

Erdoğan knows the value of women grassroots networks because he ascended to the power in Turkey partly because of mobilization of conservative and religious women base in Turkey. By exerting pressure on networks sustained in great deal by women in various opposition groups in Turkey, Islamist rulers hope to insure their survival. Since women play essential role both as wives and mothers in keeping the family and on a greater scale the community together, Erdoğan has started directly attacking women in Turkey.

WOMEN TARGETED DURING 2013 GEZİ PROTESTS

WIVES OF CRITICAL JOURNALISTS PERSECUTED

GOVERNMENT ARRESTED BUSINESSMEN’S WIVES

WOMEN HAVE BEEN DETAINED DURING PRISON VISITS

WOMEN HAVE BEEN DETAINED JUST AFTER DELIVERING BABY

WOMAN LOST SANITY BUT KEPT IN JAIL

MOTHERS WHO CARE KIDS WITH DOWN SYNDROME DETAINED

Separated from both her father and mother, Baby Sena’s conditions deteriorated rapidly. She was rushed to the emergency on Jan.23, 2017 and placed in intensive care unit (ICU) at Bağcılar Medilife Hospital. She suffered from serious health troubles including heart, lung and kidney failures. Doctors were able to stabilize her but she had spent 20 days in ICU. Now she is out of the ICU, but her treatment is still underway at the hospital without her parent’s presence.

In another case, a mother of five that included a boy with a Down Syndrome was detained while she was visiting her husband who was jailed on charges of alleged links to the Gülen movement. When she got detained on the spot during the prison visit, five kids including the boy with a Down Syndrome were left stranded in a car in the parking lot of Sincan Prison in Ankara.

The video showing five children left alone in tears in front of the prison after their mother was detained went viral in social media, prompting outcry. “Leaving children alone in such a situation is against the Convention on the Rights of the Child and all related laws. We will follow this issue,” said Mahmut Tanal, a deputy from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and a member of the Human Rights Commission in the Turkish Parliament.

In the video a child opens the door of a car in the prison parking lot, showing his brothers crying, and says in tears, “We are five brothers, left alone. We have a handicapped brother. I commend those people to God’s punishment.” The boy with a Down Syndrome, sitting in the backseat of the car, appears to be scared. He looks to be at the age of five or six.

The mother, identified with her first name Nagehan, was later transferred to another prison in Tokat, which is hundreds of miles away from her children in Ankara. A fund-raising campaign was launched in the US to help the family and she was later released on TL 50,000 ($14,000) bail.

In both cases, parents were accused of false charges of terror because of their alleged links to the Gülen movement which is inspired by the US-based Turkish Muslim intellectual Fethullah Gülen who has been advocating science education, interfaith and intercultural dialogue and community contribution.

Gülen has been a vocal critic of Turkish government and autocratic President Erdoğan on massive corruption in the government as well as Turkey’s aiding and abetting of radical groups in Syria.

Erdoğan launched an unprecedented persecution against Gülen and his followers in December 2013 right after major corruption probe that incriminated Erdoğan’s family members.

Turkish President vowed to show no mercy towards followers of Gülen and orchestrated the arrest of over 46,000 people in the last six months.

The ruling Islamist leaders labelled the movement as ‘FETÖ’, a terrorist organization, although Gülen, 75-year old cleric, and his followers have never advocated violence but rather remained staunchly opposed to any violence, radicalism and terror in the name of religion. Read the full story here.

Group of around 30 men - reportedly with knives - attack Women's Day stall at liberal Bilgi University shouting "Allahu akbar" https://t.co/7rn5M7IRCZ

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) March 8, 2017

Egypt's al-Azhar 'Moderate' Grand Imam: "apostasy punishment should be death".

Egypt's al-Azhar 'Moderate' Grand Imam: "apostasy punishment should be death". (Australian)

About six weeks ago, in a televised address during Ramadan, the leading Muslim cleric in Egypt, Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University in Cairo, who is hailed as one of the leading “moderate” teachers in the Islamic world, denounced apostasy from Islam as “grand treason”.

He stated categorically: “Those learned in Islam and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence consider apostasy a crime and agree that the apostate must either renounce his apostasy or else be killed.”

This prominent cleric has been a critic of Islamic State, of Salafist radicals and of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was appointed by former dictator Hosni Mubarak as grand mufti of Egypt and has been welcomed by Pope Francis to the Vatican.

Yet here he is backing condign penalties for apostasy from his religion. Pew Centre surveys across the Muslim world show that many Muslims do not support such penalties, although most Muslims in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Malaysia do so.

In (Sunni) Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Somalia, as well as (Shia) Iran, death for apostasy is official state policy and has been defiantly defended against UN principles of the universal human right to freedom of religion. Hmmmm.....there is no Islam 'Light', Islam is Islam. Read the full story here.

Video - Girls in Yazd, Iran, Celebrate End of School Year by Throwing Chador in the Air.

Iran Questions Legitimacy of Appointing UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Iran.

Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Questions Legitimacy of Appointing UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Iran. (IranFrontpage).

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari censured the recent re-appointment of Ahmed Shaheed as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, saying the decision has no legal basis.

In a statement late on Thursday, Jaberi Ansari described the decision at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to extend the mandate of Ahmed Shaheed as politically-motivated and biased.

The composition of countries supporting the decision like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar, whose people are witnessing systematic violations of human rights by their governments, indicates the fact that the move was politically motivated, the spokesman said. 

He emphasized that it also proved the West’s instrumental use of the international mechanism for protecting human rights (UNHRC).

The Islamic Republic is committed to its obligations regarding the promotion of human rights in compliance with its constitution and religious values, Jaberi Ansari said, adding that accordingly, Tehran has always cooperated with the UN human rights mechanisms, including the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

The UPR is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council (HRC) aimed at improving the human rights situation on the ground of each of the 193 United Nations (UN) Member States.

Under this mechanism, the human rights situation of all UN Member States is reviewed every 4.5 years.

Various reports by Ahmed Shaheed have attacked the Islamic Republic.

The reports have come under criticism by many independent observers who have questioned them for being based on accounts provided by expatriates and terrorist groups such as Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). Quoting materials from Iran Front Page is permitted only if the source is mentioned by name.

Video - British-Palestinian Women’s Rights Activist Ahlam Akram: We Cannot Continue to Teach Jihad at Schools and Expect Society to Respect Women, Non-Muslims

Video - British-Palestinian Women’s Rights Activist Ahlam Akram: We Cannot Continue to Teach Jihad at Schools and Expect Society to Respect Women, Non-Muslims. (MEMRI).

British-Palestinian women’s rights activist Ahlam Akram said, in an interview with the Saudi channel Al-Khalijiyya TV, that the women of the East "must break out of the shell in which society has placed them." She criticized leading Muslim Brotherhood scholar Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi for divorcing his wife in her absence, saying that "Al-Qaradhawi and his ilk are a disaster to the Arab region" and adding that people cannot expect society to respect women and religious minorities when Jihad and the doctrine of "loyalty and disavowal" are taught at the schools. The interview aired on January 17, 2016.

Ahlam Akram: "Muslim jurisprudence regarding women has paralyzed half of society, making it closed up within itself, always fighting for justice. Justice and mercy are the most important attributes of Allah. Current laws (regarding women) deny justice and mercy."

Host: "Are you calling for the abolishment of jurisprudence regarding women?"

Ahlam Akram: "This kind of jurisprudence should not be taught, because it tarnishes the image of Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy. All the laws that stem from this type of jurisprudence are based on certain hadiths. Can I, as a Muslim-born human being, accept these repulsive hadiths? No way! They are not in line with the personality of the Prophet Muhammad himself. Therefore, the jurisprudence regarding women, along with the doctrine of 'loyalty and disavowal,' which has built a wall between us and the rest of the world..."

Host: "You are talking about hadiths fabricated in order to control..."

Ahlam Akram: "Of course. These hadiths are fabricated in order to gain control over society, and especially over the women. The doctrine of 'loyalty and disavowal,' the doctrine of Jihad, used by ISIS to attract the youth, the doctrine of dhimmis, which denies our fellow citizens their basic rights as citizens and human beings... We cannot continue to teach these things at schools, and then expect society to respect women or people of other religions.

[...]

"The message I would like to convey to the women of the East is that they must break out of the shell in which society has placed them – a situation that has been abused by the religious jurisprudents. I'd like to make women feel that they are human beings just like men. I would also like to send a message to Arab legislators, who, under the notion of 'honor,' justify killers or collaborate with them, by allowing mitigated sentences for killers of women."

[...]

Host: "In a recent article, you criticized Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi for divorcing his wife, Asmaa bin Qada, in her absence."

Ahlam Akram: "Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi and his ilk are a disaster for the Arab region, I'm sad to say. They reaffirm the tyrannical rule of men (over women), and paralyze the Arab mind. I don't know what else to say... The past 40 years, which have witnessed the rise of political Islam, and in which TV channels have been used in the worst possible way... These past 40 years have brought upon us a cultural change, which has rendered our society more extremist, more violent, and has intensified the denial of the other. (The fault lies with) Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi and his ilk."

Video - Qatari Educational clip to Girls: Not Wearing Hijab Defies Allah, Brings You Closer to Satan.

Qatari Educational clip to Girls: Not Wearing Hijab Defies Allah, Brings You Closer to Satan.

An animated video called "Salma and the Hijab," posted on the Internet, aims at educating girls about proper Islamic attire. The video was produced as educational software for "Boys and Girls," the children's section of the Qatari government-owned Internet portal Islamweb.net, which includes many educational videos. A large number of these videos were posted on various YouTube accounts. The "Salma and the Hijab" video was posted on February 17, 2016.

'EU Values' - Turkish Ruling party AKP MP considers homosexuality “one of the biggest threats against our society”.

'EU Values' - Turkish Ruling party AKP MP considers homosexuality “one of the biggest threats Against our society”. (kaosgl).

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Ayse Dogan made a homophobic statement during a meeting of the Turkish Parliament’s Committee on Equality of Opportunity for Women and Men meeting.

AKP MP Ayse Dogan objected to a suggestion by an opposition MP for the inclusion of LGBT people during a committee meeting on Tuesday, saying “There is no use of bringing up private genders and lives of different groups in their bedrooms. Everyone knows that these are one of the biggest threats to be posed against our society.”

Equality Agency without LGBTI rights?

The Committee on Equality of Opportunity for Women and Men discussed a draft proposing the foundation of Human Rights and Equality Agency, which is supposed to protect and improve human rights, ensure equal treatment and eliminate discrimination in exercising legal rights and freedoms.
According to daily Hurriyet, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Candan Yuceer pointed at the fact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people face discrimination and killings. She added that ignoring them and interpreting the recommendations in international conventions arbitrarily means neglecting those who actually suffer from discrimination.
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party MP Filiz Kerestecioglu emphasized that protection on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity should be added to the draft because “no one disappears just because you ignore them”.

AKP swings between pinkwashing and teargassing

Ruling party MP claimed that “sexual tendencies that are unnatural and against our traditions” should not be the focus of the committee.

The AKP government, which has been ruling Turkey since 2002, insistently ignored all calls and parliamentary questions for legal protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Although the party even portrayed the growing LGBTI activism in Turkey as a proof for the government’s tolerance and guarantee for “all sorts of lifestyles”, last year’s Istanbul Pride Parade was attacked by water cannons and tear gas by the police.

Iranian FM Calls UN Human Rights Resolution against Iran "Dark Humor"

Iranian FM Calls UN Human Rights Resolution against Iran "Dark Humor" (fars).

"The two resolutions issued against Iran at the UN during the past few days are the dark humor of our time," Zarif said, addressing an international forum in Tehran on Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the UN.

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday passed a human rights resolution against Iran.

In relevant remarks on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari also voiced Tehran's strong opposition to politicizing the human rights resolutions issued by the UN.

"Iran is attaches no value and is against the politically-driven resolutions that have been approved based on political tendencies of countries and clandestine lobbies," Jaber Ansari said.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that Iran deplores the UN human rights mechanisms that are being adopted based on the selective policies of certain countries.

Earlier this week, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Gholamhossein Dehqani, whose country is the rotating president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), voiced concern over using human rights issues for political purposes.

"NAM reaffirms the need to ensure that human rights are not used for political purposes and adopting politically motivated decisions, and to avoid the problems which plagued the former Human Rights Commission," Dehqani said, addressing the UN Human Rights Council meeting in New York.

Also on Monday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi rapped sponsors of human rights resolutions against Tehran for their double-standard approach.

"The components of the resolution contradict the human rights realities in our country," Araqchi said, addressing a gathering of foreign envoys to Tehran.

He referred to the human rights talks between Iran and a number of countries, and said dialogue is the only way to improve and support human rights.

Araqchi also urged countries to extend support for Iran's positions and show their opposition to the instrumental use of human rights resolutions for political drives.

Saudi Ambassador posts this warning to UK in national press. 'Silence or face the consequences'.

Saudi Ambassador posts this warning to UK in national press. 'Silence or face the consequences'. (Telegraph).

Over the past few weeks, there has been an alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain. The Kingdom has always had to deal with a lack of understanding and misconceptions, but on this occasion I feel compelled to address some of the recent criticisms.

The importance of Saudi Arabia to the UK and the Middle East’s security, as well as its vital role in the larger Arab world as the epicentre of Islam, seems to be of little concern to those who have fomented this change. Yet it should be worrying to all those who do not want to see potentially serious repercussions that could damage the mutually beneficial strategic partnership that our countries have so long enjoyed.

Saudi Arabia is a sovereign state. Our Kingdom is led by our rulers alone, and our rulers are led by Islam alone. Our religion is Islam and our constitution is based on the Holy Qu’ran. Our justice system is based on Sharia law and implemented by our independent judiciary. Just as we respect the local traditions, customs, laws and religion of Britain, we expect Britain to grant us this same respect. We do not seek special treatment, but we do expect fairness. I do recognise, though, that we in the Embassy can do more to create a better understanding of my country.

The Kingdom’s contribution to Britain’s security and economy provides the foundations on which the bilateral relations between our two countries are built, allowing trade, cultural exchanges and military cooperation to flourish. Saudi Arabia ultimately provides over 50,000 British families in the UK and the Kingdom with livelihoods, thanks to commercial contracts worth tens of billions of pounds. Saudis also have an estimated £90 billion in private business investments in the UK. Hmmmm.......'Capish?' Tell me again why Saudi Arabia is in the UN Human rights council?  Read the full story here.

Kimmo Sasi: 2000 executions carried out in Iran under 'Obama's BFF Moderate' Rouhani.

Kimmo Sasi: 2000 executions carried out in Iran under 'Obama's BFF Moderate' Rouhani. (NCRI).

The human rights situation in Iran has not improved since Hassan Rouhani became President two years ago, Kimmo Sasi, a former Member of Parliament from Finland and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has said. There have been 2000 executions since Rouhani took office, he added.

Mr. Sasi addressed a Geneva conference on September 18 on the sidelines of the 30th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Iranians plan to rally outside the United Nations in New York on September 28 to denounce the visit by the mullahs' President Hassan Rouhani to the UN General Assembly.

The rally, which is being organized by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC), will press the international community to hold the regime in Iran accountable for its abhorrent human rights record.

The mullahs' regime in Iran continues to execute more of its citizens per capita than any other U.N. member state.

Excerpt from the remarks by Mr. Kimmo Sasi, former Member of Parliament from Finland and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe:

If we try to measure somehow what has happened, the fact is that there have been 2000 executions since he took office. And in fact the executions have been very brutal, there have been stonings and amputation of limbs of the human body of people. The latest statistics of Amnesty International shows there has been 699 executions from the beginning of this year until July 15. Why is all this done? It is to create fear so that people do not want to have any resistance in the country because they have to fear for their lives.

We have to do something and what should be done? The Council of Europe has very good and high human rights standards. And the Council of Europe’s legal rights committee has studied the situation in neighboring areas of the Council of Europe countries. And indeed if Iran would have the same standards as Council of Europe has for human rights, I think it would be the first step to create peace in the whole Middle East.

Mr. [Alejo] Vidal Quadras already mentioned the European Union, and he was in the right line at the moment. As the annual report of the European Union shows there is no human rights dialogue today between the European Union and Iran. In fact, it would be very important that in all relations, to have that human rights dialogue, and to put conditions on any improvement to any relations between Iran and the European Union and the European countries as a condition for improvement of the relations. In fact, the European Parliament has given a declaration in that direction in April 2014, saying that human rights should be an essential part of the relations and be conditioned.

But I plead with the national parliaments as well, that national parliaments would study Iran and put pressure on their own countries that they indeed require when they have relations with Iran so human rights will be part of the conditions in those negotiations. Also in the European Union, the Commission plays in important role and when the Foreign Minister [Federica] Mogherini was in Tehran for a visit, during her visit, 11 people were executed at the same time. That is not the right reflection of the Iranian government when the European Foreign Minister visits their country. There must be conditions for the relations. Hmmmm.....The EU would sell father, mother and the kids for financial gain, human rights are of no importance to them.Read the full story here.

Video - Iran Freedom TV, discussing the human rights situation in Iran - Live broadcast in One Hour.

NCR-Iran.org will on Wednesday broadcast online last week's major conference on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva discussing the human rights situation in Iran. The broadcast will commence at 2pm European time (8am EDT).

'Austrian grundlichheid' - Austria to sell Iran cranes for possible use in hangings.

'Austrian grundlichheid' - Austria to sell Iran cranes for possible use in hangings. (I24).

An Austrian company, Palfinger AG, whose crane equipment was used to for executions, is set to re-enter the Iranian market. Company head Herbert Ortner says there is strong demand for cranes in Iran because there is no local production, the Austria Press Agency reported.

Stefan Schaden, a spokesman for the Berlin-based European coalition Stop the Bomb, said, “Palfinger is one example, which clearly shows that Austrian companies do not care at all about the disastrous human rights situation when it comes to doing business in Iran. In fact they support the regime and its inhuman policies as long as it serves their profit interests.”

In response to criticism leveled at the company, Palfinger said a famed photograph showing one of its construction cranes from a man is hanging "is 25 years old. It was produced in Iran with a license. Palfinger already rescinded the license... No one can prevent customers from buying used cranes abroad and using them in Iran.”

The Islamic Republic is slated to execute as many as 1,000 people by the end of 2015, and nearly 700 Iranians were executed between January and July this year, Amnesty International says. Iran is believed to execute the most people per capita.

Writing Monday in The Jerusalem Post, Benjamin Weinthal, who reports on Iranian human rights, cited Schaden as being sharply critical of Austrian politicians and business leaders for their plans to visit Iran next month. “The Austrian Economic Chamber WKÖ and Austrian politics in general encourage this attitude with the planned visit to Iran of Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner and WKO President Christoph Leitl. While European companies rush to do business with the Iranian regime, the Iranian population is thrown under the bus as the regime is enabled to continue with its brutal oppression.”

The Austrian Economic Chamber hopes for a five-fold increase in trade as a result of the sanctions relief promised Iran in exchange for its promise not to build nuclear weapons until 2025. Austria exported about $300 million in goods to Iran in 2014. Hmmm....As i said many times before EU politicians don't care about human rights only cold hard cash & profits. Read more below from he JPost.

Iran has executed 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians. Some with a crane. Austrian crane company back in Iran's market http://t.co/iJBQrCqOGg

— Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) August 2, 2015

EU[Rabia]'s Mogherini’s Iran trip encourages more executions.

EU[Rabia]'s Mogherini’s Iran trip encourages more executions. (NCRI).

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reiterates that the upcoming trip to Iran by Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and meetings with leaders of the ruling religious fascism encourage this regime to continue torture and executions. 

It urges all supporters of human rights, women’s rights and democracy to take urgent action for the cancellation of this trip. This and other trips to Iran under the mullahs’ rule run counter to the national interest of the Iranian people and their determination to overthrow this regime and establish democracy and popular rule in Iran.

Ms. Mogherini plans to meet with those responsible for 120,000 political executions and the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988. 

Amnesty International in a press release on July 23 wrote that in the first half of 2015 at least 694 prisoners have been executed in Iran, adding: “Iran’s staggering execution toll for the first half of this year paints a sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale. ... We are likely to see more than 1,000 state-sanctioned deaths by the year’s end.”

Ms. Mogherini will be meeting in Tehran with those bearing chief responsibility for the export of terrorism and fundamentalism and the massacre of the innocent peoples of Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. These officials should be tried for crimes against humanity for their crimes both inside Iran and abroad.

In the nine months that Ms. Mogherini has taken the helm in Schuman Square, some 1,000 prisoners have been executed in Iran, women have faced the most severe pressures, and religious and ethnic minorities have faced extensive repression and discrimination; however, Ms. Mogherini has refrained from uttering even a verbal condemnation of these daily atrocities. This is disgraceful for the European Union whose very foundation is based on countering fascism and supporting democracy and human rights.

While every day hundreds of Iranian women are arrested, fined and flogged by the agents of the regime on the bogus charge of ‘mal-veiling’, Ms. Mogherini plans to please the mullahs and obey their instructions by wearing a veil in her meetings with human rights criminals such as Hassan Rouhani, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, Javad Zarif and Ali Larijani. Ms. Mogherini’s action is a blatant insult to all Iranian women.

The NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee strongly condemns this trip and urges Ms. Mogherini not to put salt on the Iranian people’s wounds, even if she refuses to doing anything to ease their pain and suffering.

The Iranian people, in particular the women, youth, political prisoners, and the families of those who have been executed, expect human rights and women’s rights defenders in Europe and particularly in Italy to take action to halt this visit which is considered as a dagger to the heart of democracy and human rights. Hmmmm.....I said it many times before the EU politicians would sell their whole family for financial gain and cheap gas.....'What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?' - Matthew 16:26.

Video - Egyptian Women's Rights Activist Nawal El Saadawi in Support of Homosexuals: They Are Very Normal

Pakistan - No real freedom of travel for Christians: "They will probably seek asylum".

Pakistan - No real freedom of travel for Christians: "They will probably seek asylum". (ET).


LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has sought a detailed report from the director general of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a petition by two siblings accusing the FIA of not letting them board a Sri Lanka-bound flight twice because ‘they were intending to seek asylum’.

The petitioners said FIA officials had stopped them from boarding the flights claiming they were intending to seek asylum in Sri Lanka and would not let them go. They said they had valid visas on invitation and had fulfilled all requirements to travel abroad.

Petitioners Irfan Masih and his sister Maria Batool, residents of Kasur, said they had been invited to visit Sri Lanka by a family friend, KA Nalika Damayanthi, a Sri Lankan national. Their counsel Advocate Mushtaq Gill said the petitioners had obtained visas and sponsor letters after due process. He said they had purchased tickets of Mihin Lanka (PVT) Ltd, a Sri Lankan airline, for departure on May 12 from Lahore to Colombo. At Allama Iqbal International Airport, FIA officials stopped them and asked them if they had certain documents on them.

He said that they showed them the documents but the officials did not allow them to board the plane.

He said a few days later, they bought new tickets and tried to board a flight to Colombo on June 1 from Allama Iqbal International Airport. They received their boarding cards but were once again stopped from boarding the flight. He said FIA officials snatched their boarding passes and told them that several Pakistani Christians travelled to Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka to seek asylum, therefore they would not be allowed to leave the country.

Gill said citizens whose passports mentioned Christian as the religion were often asked to provide assurance that they were not travelling abroad to seek asylum. Gill said when he was travelling to Italy in December 2014, he had been approached by FIA officials at the airport who claimed that he was intending to seek asylum in Italy. “I was finally allowed to travel after I asked some officers to intervene,” he said.

Gill said as citizens of Pakistan Christians were entitled to fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution. He said his clients’ right to freedom of movement had been violated because of their faith. He said his clients had no intention to seek asylum.

“The fact that so many Christians are seeking asylum abroad, speaks volumes of the persecution they face in this country. Christians in Pakistan face discrimination; mob violence; misuse of blasphemy laws; inequality before law; threats and harassment; and unequal job opportunities.”

“Son of Garbage Collector Cannot Become a Judge”: Egypt’s Justice Minister....Because he's a Christian?

“The Son of a Garbage Collector Cannot Become a Judge”: Egypt’s Justice Minister....Because he's a Coptic Christian? (ES).

Egypt’s Minister of Justice Mahfouz Saber has stirred controversy across Egypt after declaring that children of garbage collectors cannot become judges as they must grow up in a “respectable” environment.

During a live television interview, the Minister of Justice answered a question regarding the Justice Ministry’s employment criteria.

“With all due respect to the garbage collector, and anyone else beneath him or above him, it is necessary for the environmental medium where a judge grows to be suitable,”said the Justice Minister.

“A judge has his highness and position, he must come from a respectable medium, both financially and morally.”

The Minister added that if a garbage collector would be hired as a judge, he would suffer from depression and other issues. The Minister, who said this statement is based on prior experience, did not clarify what ‘issues’ he was referring to.

Asked whether this means the garbage collector and his children are deprived of employment, the Minister said the they would find a job that is suited to them.

Following the statements, Egyptians have taken to social media to call for the resignation of the Justice Minister. On Twitter, the top trending hashtag in Egypt calls for the Minister to be replaced.

Meanwhile, following the statements, Egypt’s former vice President Mohammed El-Baradei criticized what he called was a lack of the “concept of justice.”

“When the concept of justice is absent from a nation, nothing remains,” said El-Baradei, who has been living abroad since he resigned in 2013 over the bloody dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins in August 2013.

El-Baradei added that the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights preserves “the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.” 

In solidarity with garbage collectors, social media users have posted their support and praise of garbage collectors’ crucial role in society. Hmmmm.....the garbage collectors a.k.a. Zabbaleen in Egypt are mainly Coptic Christians, in good 'tradition' of Islamist supremacy, we can't have Christian judges....Do we? 'Muslim Brotherhood' Anyone?

'Perverted Chorus' unwelcome in 'Islamist' Turkey.

Translation headline: The Perverted Chorus is Coming to Turkey

'Perverted Chorus' unwelcome in 'Islamist' Turkey. (LouisFishman).

Major Istanbul Performing Arts center cancels event in Homophobic Move.

 "Major scandal! [They] are coming to Turkey during Ramadan to spread Homosexuality!"

Earlier this week, on the twitter waves, a homophobic news story hit the headlines. According to the Ihlas News Agency, an American gay chorus was set to come to Turkey to perform on stage, as well as to participate in Istanbul’s annual Gay Pride march. 

According to the press report, the real aim of the group was to “spread homosexuality.” Even worse, this was set to happen during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

The story's source was the official press release of an conservative Islamic women's group, BILKA, that released an official statement concerning the event (which was featured in its entirety in the IHA story). The press release is filled with homophobic hate speech that warns of the imminent damage their visit could cause, and that they are expecting "serious steps to be taken to save Turkey from such sin."

It did not take no time at all for the pro-government press to pick up on this. and to spread even more hateful headlines: "The Perverted Chorus is Coming to Turkey". Hmmm....When will the U.S. and EU political Eunuchs find their balls to speak up against 'Islamist' Turkey, for human rights? Read the full story here.

Video - Iran the ME China? Iran's nuclear issue, possible lifting of sanctions

The west needs Iran, Iran’s oil and gas reserves, Sidqi Shevket, head of Azeri Daily Website, told Trend on "This Week in Focus".

Shevket said that in terms of proven gas reserves, Iran is second in the world, while also fourth in terms of having proven oil reserves.

The EU is trying to build energy security and it means that they have to diversify their flows of energy resources, he said, adding that it is not about the replacement but about being added to the supply scheme.

"The EU does not want to cease buying gas from Russia, they just want to have many sources of energy sources,” he said.

The expert believes that by the end of June Iran and P5+1 group of countries will probably achieve the final agreement, as the fact that the sides reached the framework agreement is a very big step forward.

Another important factor, according to Shevket, was that both Barack Obama and Hassan Rohani have been moving forward, despite all the opposition from both conservative circles in Iran itself, and the US, despite what Israel has been saying.

“They have moved forward because that is in the interest of the West which is trying to solve some of the regional problems with the help of Iran,” said Shevket. “And it is in the interest of Iran itself from the economical point of view.”

He said that Iran has great economic potential, and during so many years under sanctions, this country proved that it can sustain its economy. And while not verything is as well as people of Iran might wished for, but the country has still been developing despite all the sanctions, all negative imaginary, Shevket believes.

So if the sanctions are removed, it is obvious that Iran is going to achieve very high level of economic development, he said.

“In my opinion, it is important to see that Iran might become a very attractive country for foreign investors as well,” said Shevket. “I am not speaking just about its oil and gas reserves.”

What is important, Shevket says, is that Iran is a pragmatic partner.

The recent nuclear negotiations between Iran and P5+1 group of countries proved that Iran has pragmatism as one of the characteristics which is inherent to the Tehran authorities, despite all the ideological differences that Iran might have with the West and vice versa, according to Shevket.

The agreement will be important mainly for those parts of the world where Iran has certain influences, he said. Then all other kinds of political and economy deals could be possible, according to Shevket.

Do Christians exist for the EU Commission? "preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe"

Do Christians exist for the EU Commission? "Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe". (EU)


European Commission calls for input to its first Annual Colloquium on fundamental rights in the EU

On 1-2 October 2015, First Vice President for Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Frans Timmermans, in cooperation with EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, will host the first Annual Colloquium on fundamental rights in the EU.

The Colloquium will aim at improving mutual cooperation and greater political engagement for the promotion and protection of fundamental rights in Europe. It will seek to strengthen dialogue between the EU and international institutions, policy makers, academia and civil society, and deepen the understanding of challenges for fundamental rights on the ground. Another key objective will be the identification of gaps and achieving progress on topical fundamental rights issues.

For this first edition the central theme will be: "Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe".

The Colloquium will be held in Brussels and will bring together a selected number of high level participants from across the EU: national Ministers, representatives of leading NGOs and international institutions, MEPs and renowned academics and philosophers.

The EU has the historic obligation to go back to the very origins of European integration – that is securing a better common future, leaving forever behind the terrible bloodsheds that have marked our history. Living together in a pluralistic society is not possible if its members feel threatened, discriminated and insecure: every citizen, every community* must feel at home in the EU.

Fostering an open, pluralistic and inclusive society, which is based on fundamental rights, is key in this respect. Being able to 'disagree well' and fostering a mutual understanding of the other, and each other's differences, is another indispensable element.

The Colloquium will look at trends and underlying reasons of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents in the EU, and their impact on people's lives and rights. It will explore the most relevant avenues to address these phenomena.

Focus will be put on projects, policies and legislation designed to combat hate crime, hate speech and discrimination. Discussants will look at the role of EU and international institutions, Member States, local authorities, civil society, community leaders, the media, education and the world of employment in developing a culture of inclusive tolerance and respect in the EU. Hmmmm......*Somehow it seems the Christians have no fundamental rights in the EU Commission.