Entries Tagged as 'Human Rights'
By Nir Boms and Roee Nahmias, Henry Jackson Society,
6th September 2007
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Over a million Arabs have been deported from the district of Al-Ahwaz, home to some eight million Arabs, in Southern-East Iran, near the Iraqi border. They have been replaced with Persian Iranians.
Human rights activists in this area have been arrested and placed in detention [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: Al-Ahwaz·Al-Jazeera·Human Rights·Iran·NGOs
November 21, 2003, 9:08
By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck
“The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country.”
With this statement, made in his November 6, 2003, speech calling for the establishment of democracy in the Middle East, President Bush galvanized an increasingly active contingent of Syrian democracy advocates. [...]
[Read more →]
Tags: Ba'ath party·Bashar Assad·Democracy·Financing terror·reform·Syria