AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 11 August 2018 Index: MDE 13/8889/2018 Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release activist Ebrahim Nouri, as well as anyone else still arbitrarily detained after the arrest of around 120 people in connection with two separate Azerbaijani Turkic cultural gatherings that took …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 4 According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), Three South Azerbaijan national and civil right activists with the name of Kiumars Islami, Faraj Nouri, Morteza Yazdani were arrested in Ahar, Mughan, and Urmia respectively. And the number of detainees and the threat of detention reached …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, July 2 According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan), many South Azerbaijani activists have arrested on the eve of the Babak Castle ceremony in different cities of South Azerbaijan by  Iranian regime intelligence office on Monday 2nd of  July 2018. The name of some South Azerbaijan national and …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 17 Nader Gazipour, the representative of the people of Urmia, Strongly criticized the persistence of discrimination against the Turks in Iran in the open session of Iran Islamic parliament on Wednesday 16th of May 2018. Nader Gazipour, during the asking question from Iran’s Minister of Culture  in …

Ankara, Turkey, Apr 25 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a dinner honoring his visiting North Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev at the presidential complex, Turkish presidential sources said Tuesday. The dinner in the capital Ankara was closed to the media, said the source, who asked not to be named due to …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Apr 11 Atila Analo from Chandgan town has written a brief article on the oppressions on Turk dominated areas of Iran after the period of the Qajar that show the racism of the Pahlavi regime. The Pahlavi regime divided Turk dominated areas from the center of Iran …

 Tabriz,South Azerbaijan, Mar 20  The holiday of Novruz is celebrated in both South and North Azerbaijan on March 20. Novruz is associated with the coming of the spring equinox and symbolizes the arrival of spring, which this year in Azerbaijan according to the Shamakhi observatory will come today 20:15 for …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 10 Three South Azerbaijani national and civil right activists were sentenced to jail and flogging because of attending at “Babak Castle” ceremony. These three South Azerbaijani activists have sentenced to “Four months of imprisonment and 40 lashes” during unfair judgments of the Iranian judiciary court in Kaleybar city. …

Why Trump’s Jerusalem move is triggering a chain reaction-By :Monica Showalter There’s nothing like a little U.S. leadership.  President Trump’s announcement that he is moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is seeing a heartening chain reaction as other nations follow our lead.  Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he’s hearing from all …

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jun 25 The First Defeat for the Expansion of the Revolution to the Republic of Azerbaijan Following Disintegration of the Soviet Union Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly emerged Republic of Azerbaijan became the first target in security doctrine of the Islamic Republic. Iran has …