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Today, 🇸🇪🇪🇺 Dawit Isaak should be celebrating his birthday surrounded by his children. Instead, they don’t even know if their father is alive.
For 25 years, Eritrea has stolen his freedom, his family’s birthdays, & every chance to make new memories together. His children grew up. Life moved on. But their father is still missing.
@SwedishPM @kajakallas, what if Dawit were your father, brother or friend? Would you accept 25 years of silence & inaction? His family cannot afford another year of waiting. Make his freedom a priority. Bring Dawit home. #FreeDawit
@SwedishPM @SweMFA @MariaStenergard @AmnestySverige @amnesty @pressfreedom @RSF_inter @FreeDawit @pen_int @PEN_Ertra @TheRWCHR @LantosFndn @RSF_RUG @Tunback @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EritreaMfa @CPJAfrica @MehariMeng53005 @bergersus @ErmiLiberty @eu_eeas @kajakallas @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @JasonPoblete @EvaMariaHall @Danait4 @BietelhemI @KurdoBaksi @esayasisaak @Edelstam
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A Christian convert in #EvinPrison repeatedly denied treatment and medical leave despite suffering from a number of serious conditions has finally been released on a 10-day furlough, according to reports.
The Persian-language Human Rights Activist News Agency reports that #MahsharParandin, who is serving a 2-year sentence on unknown charges, was granted the short leave from prison on Saturday, after a salary slip was deposited as bail.
Mahshar, an artist and mother reported to be in her 50s and to be her family’s primary breadwinner, is suffering from a number of serious medical issues, which have affected her balance, mobility and speech.
Article18 reported in June that she continued to be denied treatment, even after the prison’s doctor diagnosed that she needed a cardiac angiogram and surgery for two tumours, which had continued to grow during her incarceration and had put her at risk of losing sight in one of her eyes.
Full story 👇🏻
🔗 articleeighteen.com/news/248…
#Article18 #ForBForAll #Iran #Christians #Converts #Place2Worship
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خانم دکتر قلابی شیرین سعیدی، استاد سابق دانشگاه آرکانزاس، علیه @AAIRIA_Org، من و شماری از مسئولان دانشگاه و مقامات ایالتی در دادگاه فدرال آمریکا شکایت کرده است.
ما نزدیک به شش سال است که با تکیه بر اسناد و مدارک و با استفاده از حقوق قانونی خود، برای افشای عملکرد حامیان جمهوری اسلامی تلاش می‌کنیم. با شکایت، تهدید و ارعاب ساکت نخواهیم شد.
این پرونده تنها دفاع از ما نیست؛ دفاع از حق آزادی بیان و فعالیت مدنی نیز هست. ادعاهای مطرح‌شده در یک شکایت به معنای اثبات آن‌ها نیست و ما از حقوق خود در دادگاه دفاع خواهیم کرد.
برای تأمین هزینه‌های سنگین دفاع حقوقی، به حمایت مالی شما نیاز داریم. لطفاً به کمپین GoFundMe ما کمک کنید و لینک آن را با دوستانتان به اشتراک بگذارید. از همراهی و حمایت شما سپاسگزاریم.
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#FireSaeidi
#StopIRILobby
خانم «دکتر قلابی» شیرین سعیدی اکنون علیه AAIRIA، لادن بازرگان، و همچنین هیئت امنای دانشگاه آرکانزاس، جی سیلوریا رئیس سیستم دانشگاهی، چارلز رابینسون رئیس دانشگاه، برایان رینز رئیس دانشکده، سناتور ایالتی آرکانزاس دن سالیوان و چند تن دیگر از مسئولان دانشگاه و افراد، در دادگاه فدرال شکایت کرده است. این شکایت در دادگاه منطقه‌ای ایالات متحده برای ناحیه غربی آرکانزاس ثبت شده و شامل ادعاهایی است که از کارزار مربوط به اخراج او از دانشگاه آرکانزاس ناشی می‌شود.
ما با تهدید و ارعاب ساکت نخواهیم شد. نزدیک به دو سال است که با استفاده از حقوق خود تحت "متمم اول قانون اساسی آمریکا برای آزادی بیان و دادخواهی از دولت"، نگرانی‌های مستند خود را از طریق دانشگاه‌ها، اسناد عمومی، مقامات منتخب و مجاری رسمی و قانونی مطرح کرده‌ایم. ثبت یک شکایت قضایی این اسناد و سوابق را از بین نمی‌برد، و ادعاهای مطرح‌شده در یک دادخواست نیز به معنای اثبات‌شدن آن‌ها نیست.
ما از پاسخ‌گویی از مسیر قانونی و ارائه اسناد و مدارک استقبال می‌کنیم و نشان خواهیم داد که این شکایت، از طریق سوءاستفاده از نظام قضایی، به‌طور غیرقانونی در پی محدود کردن حقوق ما تحت متمم اول قانون اساسی است.
ما پیش از این شکایت از کار و مستندات خود دفاع می‌کردیم، و اکنون نیز بر همان موضع ایستاده‌ایم.
#FireSaeidi
#StopIRILobby
لینک شکایت در اینجا: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f…
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“Not evil. Just a theocracy.”
Oh, my apologies, @USAMBTurkiye. I hadn’t realized kidnapping Americans like my father, torturing dissidents, hanging young patriots, committing a genocide killing 100,000 civilians, and financing jihadist militias was simply the administrative details of a divine government.
How terribly reassuring.
Apparently, mass murder comes with a religious exemption.
The Global Liberty Alliance retweeted
Cartels generate tens of millions of dollars in non-drug activities, including human smuggling, to diversify their revenue streams and protect their drug-trafficking assets.
Do you have information on these practices? Send us a tip.
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Catholics in Egypt: Small in numbers, strong in service
The Catholic Church plays an outsize role in the services it provides, especially in the poorer regions.
#Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #CatholicNews #CatholicWorld #Catholics #CatholicX
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A Christian convert summoned to begin a 5-year prison sentence for “promoting deviant beliefs contrary to the sacred law of Islam”, and her husband, are now outside #Iran and do not intend to return.
Elnaz Ghorbani was summoned last Saturday to report to #Qarchak Women’s Prison, south of #Tehran, within five days. However, the 36-year-old has been outside the country for some time now, having been threatened with arrest following a raid by #IRGC agents on her mother’s home in Tehran in October 2024.
Elnaz’s husband, 34-year-old Sohrab Ghavidel, who was not present during the raid, initially stayed behind in Iran to care for his sick father, but he too fled the country after being arrested by Ministry of Intelligence agents a month later, and subjected to psychological torture during nine days in detention.
Full story 👇🏻
🔗 articleeighteen.com/news/248…
#Christians #Converts #FoRBForAll #Place2Worship #Article18
The Global Liberty Alliance retweeted
THE FINISH LINE IS STILL AHEAD. JOIN US IN WASHINGTON, DC!
There's still time to be part of the 2026 James W. Foley Freedom Run, but registration deadlines are approaching fast!
✅New Hampshire registration: closed – thank you!
✅Washington, D.C. online registration closes Wednesday, October 21
✅Virtual Run registration remains open through November
We're excited to share that we've reached 80% of our fundraising goal. But we're not there yet.
Now more than ever, we need you. The Foley Foundation's work supporting hostage and wrongful detainee families, promoting journalist safety, conducting critical research, and most importantly - inspiring moral courage - depends on people like you.
Help us reach the finish line. Register for the Washington, D.C. run, sign up as a virtual participant, or make a donation today!
Important Race Day Updates for DC: secure.qgiv.com/event/2026ja…
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THE EDELSTAM PRIZE 2024 LAUREATE – MR. DAWIT ISAAK
One wonders why @MariaStenergard & colleagues feel the need to compromise themselves to such a degree, if the dialogue with Eritrea is progressing so well? The fact Eritrea's regime has simply ignored Sweden's demand to release Swedish journalist #DawitIsaak suggests otherwise.
The Global Liberty Alliance retweeted
Did you know? A U.S. federal commission certified 5,913 property-loss claims in #Cuba across two programs. What does “certified” mean? Cuba owes Americans billions of dollars for property confiscations.
Explore the record: americacubaclaims.org/unders…
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The European Parliament has called for the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners, including @AliKarimli, Anar Mammadli, and Anar Abdullayev, and urged preparations for targeted sanctions under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.
This marks a significant development in the EU response to human rights abuses in Azerbaijan and stregthens international pressure for accountability.
Read more here: l.gotourl.es/l/ad5e7fa112915…
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Hearing on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Egypt
Thursday, November 5, 2026
10:00 - 11:30 am ET
Virtual
Register: uscirf.gov/events/hearings/f…
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Christian convert Hannah Gholami has been “pardoned” and released from the remainder of her 2-year #prison sentence on charges related to her participation in a #house_church.
The 36-year-old was arrested three Christmases ago and in total served around half her sentence, including the two months she spent in detention following her arrest.
Hannah began serving her sentence in November 2025, having been sentenced in July 2024 alongside three other Christian #converts: Daniel Mohammadi, who will turn 67 next month, Kourosh Hosseini, who is an Afghan #refugee in his mid-40s, and a fourth Christian who has not been publicly identified.
Hannah spent four months out of prison on medical leave earlier this year, and in August was told she could serve the remainder of her sentence outside of prison, by reporting daily to work at a government-run factory.
However, on 2 October, Hannah was informed that she had been “pardoned” as part of a general amnesty of prisoners.
🔗 articleeighteen.com/news/248…
#Iran #Christians #Converts #Place2Worship #FoRBForAll #Article18
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⚖️ American-Cuba Property Claims Archive Update: New Investment Entry and Research Additions
he Archive's Investment Record now contains 41 entries. The latest entry documents GEM Global Yield's proposed US$18 million investment for a 25 percent stake in Antilles Gold's Cayman subsidiary, which holds an interest in Cuba's Minera La Victoria mining joint venture. The proposal remains conditional on due diligence and sanctions relief; it is not recorded as a completed investment.
We have also updated Sherritt's recapitalization proposals and financing position, clarified that Sherritt's participation in Energas is suspended even though electricity generation continued, and added Melbana's latest disclosures on the proposed transfer of Sonangol's Block 9 interest. Pending transactions remain distinguished from completed deals.
⚖️ American-Cuba Property Claims Archive Update: New Investment Entry and Research Additions
he Archive's Investment Record now contains 41 entries. The latest entry documents GEM Global Yield's proposed US$18 million investment for a 25 percent stake in Antilles Gold's Cayman subsidiary, which holds an interest in Cuba's Minera La Victoria mining joint venture. The proposal remains conditional on due diligence and sanctions relief; it is not recorded as a completed investment.
We have also updated Sherritt's recapitalization proposals and financing position, clarified that Sherritt's participation in Energas is suspended even though electricity generation continued, and added Melbana's latest disclosures on the proposed transfer of Sonangol's Block 9 interest. Pending transactions remain distinguished from completed deals.
Access the property and claims archive here:
americacubaclaims.org/
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Britain is prosecuting three men for spying on Iranian international journalists on behalf of Tehran’s intelligence service. London is laying the groundwork before any attack. Watch the attached @IranIntl_En story.
America should do the same for Jamshid “Jimmy” Sharmahd of Glendora, California. Just ask his family @GazelleSharmahd. Islamic regime agents kidnapped Jimmy in Dubai in 2020 and held him hostage for four years. America and other stakeholders left him behind, and the regime executed him in Iran in 2024. This was not Iran’s first attempt on Jimmy's life: in 2009, a plot to assassinate him in California was foiled.
The Justice Department has the tools to hold the perpetrators to account, and it should use them. Iran likely did not act alone; anyone who tracked, lured, or delivered him should answer for it.
Where is the U.S. indictment? Where are the oversight hearings from Congress? @USDOJ_Intl @TheJusticeDept @statedeptspox @StateSPEHA @FBI @FBILosAngeles @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @SenateForeign @SecRubio @DeputySecState @POTUS @VP @GLALegalDefense
Three Iranian men spied on Iran International journalists to assist Iranian intelligence services and prepare for serious violence against at least one target, prosecutors told a London court Tuesday.
Iran International journalists Mojtaba Pourmohsen and Kambiz Hosseini were among the targets of the alleged surveillance operation, prosecutors told Woolwich Crown Court.
Iran International's Shervin Shahrestani reports.
The Global Liberty Alliance retweeted
When it comes to supporting @StateSPEHA's efforts to end hostage diplomacy or hold perpetrators to account, @mccarrennews, Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security brings nothing but trouble. They are part of the problem and have overplayed their political and diplomatic role for far too long - and US policymakers keep allowing it. It needs to stop. If this turns out to be true, it is outrageous. @SFRCdems @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SenateForeign
"In response to our findings, Phil Elwood, spokesperson for the Tice family said: "If what you are saying is true, the fact that our tax dollars are being used to furnish a comfortable life for someone associated with the use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, who claims to have had Austin Tice executed, is offensive ... [t]his is nothing less than aiding and abetting the escape of a wanted war criminal. The Syrians deserve justice and he should be returned to stand trial."
Months ago I asked why, if Basam Hassan claimed he was guilty of ordering the murder of a U.S. citizen, was he not immediately extradited for that murder? Now I have my answer. He is being paid by the U.S.!!
bbc.com/news/articles/c81dld…
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Day 3,817 of injustice for Ahmadreza Djalali and his family. His wife and children have not seen him for well over 10 years. Their cruel separation continues with no end in sight. #SaveAhmadreza @SwedishPM @MariaStenergard @SweMFA @AmnestySverige @kajakallas @KajsaOllongren
