Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Heartbreaking aftermath of Syrian nursery school bombing as six children killed

An injured girl rests in a field hospital after the strike on the kindergarten in Harasta, near Damascus
 BEIRUT- AFP, NOV 7, 2016-  At least six children were killed on Sunday in Syrian government shelling that hit a kindergarten in the rebel-held town of Harasta outside the capital Damascus, a monitor said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said 17 people, most of them children, were also injured in the shelling.

An AFP photographer saw the body of one child, a girl, lying on a bed at a makeshift hospital, her face bloodied and her clothes torn.

At the kindergarten, smears of blood were left on the tiled floor, underneath a small red slide propped against a wall painted with children’s drawings.

Harasta is in the rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, a region that is regularly targeted by government airstrikes and shelling.

More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 20 11 with anti-government protests. 
Mirror, 07 Nov. 2016- These heart breaking pictures show the bloody aftermath of a nursery school bombing in war-torn Syria.
At least six children have been killed and up about 25 others injured after forces of Syrian regime bombed the school.
Harrowing pictures show crying children covered in blood and toys scattered across the blood-stained floor after a mortar shell smashed into the school in the rebel-held city of Harasta, near Damascus.
A young girl stares at the camera with specks of blood on her cheeks. Satchels sit on chairs surrounded by blood.

Toys on the blood-stained floor of the kindergarten


Blood on the floor after children's bags were left on chairs during the bombing


A battered shoe of a child following the shelling

More blood stains the ground
A playground earlier used by the children now has pools of blood underneath swings.
Reports suggest a mortar shell smashed into the nursery.

An injured child receives treatment in hospital after the bombing



The makeshift hospital emerged after forces of  Assad  bombed the nursery

During the attack the nursery have been hit. The incident happened at about 10am local time.

Destruction at the kindergarten after the shelling


Blood stains the floor near the playground set of swings


Blood-stained clothes of an injured child



Blood on the floor of the of the kindergarten

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Condemns migrant detention in Europe

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein delivers a speech at the opening of a new council session on June 13 2016 in Geneva

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein


GENEVA- The UN's human rights chief voiced alarm Monday at the increasing detention of migrants in Europe, including unaccompanied children, amid widespread anti-migrant rhetoric across the continent.
As Europe faces its biggest migration crisis since the aftermath of World War II, UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he had sent staff members to assess areas along the main migration routes in the central Mediterranean and Balkans.
'They have observed a worrying increase in detention of migrants in Europe, including in the hotspots, (which are) essentially vast mandatory confinement areas which have been set up in Greece and Italy,' he told the opening of the UN Human Rights Council's second annual session.
'Even unaccompanied children are frequently placed in prison cells or centers ringed with barbed-wire,' he said, insisting 'detention is never in the best interests of the child.'
Zeid urged the EU to collect data on migrant detentions by member states, warning that 'the figures would, I fear, be very shocking.'
More than one million people made the journey to Europe in 2015, the majority fleeing war in Syria and the Middle East, and a further 208,000 have come since January, according to UN figures.
More than 2,850 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.
Faced with the influx, the UN rights chief warned that many countries were showing 'a strong trend that overturns international commitments, refuses basic humanity, and slams doors in the face of human beings in need.'
He pointed out that EU countries so far have managed to relocate fewer than one percent of the 160,000 people they have committed to taking from overwhelmed Greece and Italy.
He urged European countries to 'find a way to address the current migration crisis consistently and in a manner that respects the rights of the people concerned,' and to 'remove hysteria and panic from the equation.'
This, he said, was particularly important in the context of a deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in March, under which migrants not entitled to asylum are to be deported from Greece back across the Aegean.
Zeid also decried 'the widespread anti-migrant rhetoric that we have heard, spanning the length and breadth of the European continent.'
'This fosters a climate of divisiveness, xenophobia and even, as in Bulgaria, vigilante violence,' he said.
Before they reach Europe, many migrants are meanwhile suffering horrible human rights abuses in chaos-wracked Libya, the UN rights warned.
He decried 'disturbing reports of many migrants in Libya being subjected to prolonged arbitrary detention, attacks and unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, sexual violence and abduction for ransom.'
UN staff visiting a migrant detention center in the country found 'dozens of people crammed into storage rooms without space to lie down.'
He urged EU countries attempting to cooperate with Libya on migration and border management to only do so 'in full respect for the human rights of the people involved.'

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Wiki Leaks reveals strong desire for regime change in Iran



Jun. 21، 2015 -  Diplomats talk about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum، they reported anxiously on Iran`s military aid to Sudan and etc.
Meanwhile the Saudi mission in Geneva was stuck dealing with a multimillion dollar limo bill racked up by a Saudi princess and her entourage.Many of the scores of documents reviewed by AP appear aimed at keeping track of Iranian activity across the region or undermining Tehran`s interests.

 An undated memo apparently sent from the Saudi Embassy in Tehran made note of what it said was the "frustration of the Iranian citizen and his strong desire for regime change" and suggested ways to publicly expose Iran`s social grievances through "the Internet، social media like Facebook and Twitter." It also suggests "hosting opposition figures overseas، coordinating with them and encouraging them to use galleries to show pictures of torture carried by the Iranian regime against people."

Saudis also kept a watchful eye on Iran`s friends، real or perceived. One 2012 memo warned that Iran was getting "flirting American messages" suggesting that the U.S. had no objections to a peaceful Iranian nuclear program so long as it had guarantees، "possibly Russian ones."
Another memo، dated to 2012، accuses the United Arab Emirates of helping Russia and Iran circumvent international sanctions. A third memo — marked "top secret" — makes the startling claim that Iranian fighter jets bombed South Sudanese forces during a 2012 standoff over the oil-rich area of Heglig.
There are many such hard-to-confirm stories in the Saudi documents.Over the last several years, the Iranian opposition too many secret documents about the illegal Iranian regime's platforms in the Middle East but unfortunately has been ignored by the West. They have been dramatically ignored for two reasons: there is a strong and growing perception among the Iranian people that the Iranian dictatorship is a pariah in the international community; and the resulting international economic sanctions have created conditions that make the regime’s overthrow imperative.

'At precisely this moment in history, Barack Obama did incalculable damage by initiating these negotiations. By engaging this rogue state, President Obama has given it international recognition and legitimacy at just the moment when it had lost legitimacy in the eyes of its own people. Worse, by promising relief from economic sanctions, he has removed the most compelling reason the organized Iranian resistance had to justify the regime’s overthrow.

The main solution for a non-nuclear Iran, who does not meddle in other Arab countries' affairs, is In Maryam Rajavi's points of views, and By Toppling Fundamentalism & Terrorism in Tehran.
Maryam Rajavi has already explained about the solution in The Great Gathering of the Iranian Resistance in Paris – June 13, 2015 And those who are concerned about this global threat in the world  and in the Middle East should do their best by backing the Iranian opposition group, PMOI who try to change the regime in Iran


Monday, June 8, 2015

I’m able to help my people and my country



By Iran Reporter
June, 8,2015
A brother and sister who fled Iran after persecution
 by the theocratic regime have urged all
supporters of a free Iran to back the major gathering of the opposition in Paris on June 13.
Amineh and Ehsan Qaraee saw their family members and arrested and tortured before they escaped to Europe to join the Iranian Resistance.
They have now hailed the Iranian Resistance leader Maryam Rajavi as the only choice for a new, free and democratic Iran.
Amineh, 34, who fled Iran four years ago, said: "I come from a family where both my mother and father were teachers and human rights activists and were active in the PMOI movement.
"When I was just one-year-old my father got arrested and two months later my mother got arrested with me and they took us to prison. There I had to live between people who got arrested and tortured just because they wanted freedom.
"I spent some months in prison until they let my mother to deliver me to my grandparents. My mother was in prison for more than two years and my father for four years."
"Finally they informed us that they killed my father and 30000 of other political activists even though all of them just were sentenced for some years in prison not execution.
"Every year we honour the memory of those who stood up against this regime. The huge gathering in Paris on June 13 introduces the alternative to the rule of mullahs in Iran. Maryam Rajavi, the president of the Iranian Resistance is women and youth’s choice for future of Iran."
Brother Ehsan, 28, added: "Five and an half years ago in 2009 I came to Norway because I couldn’t stay any longer in Iran. I was civil engineering student in that year but I had to leave Iran because of my family background and my activities.
"All whole life I felt that the regime monitored us and our family because they considered us as their number one enemy.
"We can learn from the history that our resistance and its members, who have made so many sacrifices to bring about freedom and democracy to Iran, and we won’t stop until we achieve these goals. And I am very glad and honored that I’m part of this movement and that I’m able to help my people and my country."
But, the final solution for a non-nuclear Iran, Democratic Iran, is In Maryam Rajavi's points of views, and By Toppling Fundamentalism & Terrorism in Tehran.
Maryam Rajavi will explain about the solution in The Great Gathering of the Iranian Resistance in Paris – June 13, 2015
Those who are concerned about  human rights in Iran and in the Middle East Are invited to this   Great Gathering in Paris – June 13