Spring of freedom

The funeral ceremony of Naser Malek Motiei, turned into an anti-regime demonstration.   Naser Malek Motiei, an Iranian actor and director who starred in numerous films and television shows, passed away on Friday, May 25 th . He was 88 years of age. Motiei was first a sports instructor and began his work as an actor in the early 1950s. In addition to playing in around 100 movies, Motiei was also very active in theater and enormously popular amongst Iran’s poor class for his chivalric roles. Following the 1979 revolution in Iran, Motiei was a target of the Iranian regime’s censoring due to his unwillingness to promote the mullahs’ mentality. Motiei began a pastry business due to the pressures imposed by the mullahs’ apparatus. He was deprived of any and all access to the profession he loved and the Iranian regime would never provided him the necessary authorization. “I loved the cinema. I loved my work for forty years. Nothing ever distanced me from the cinema....

In Commemoration of the 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran EPA, Geneva  - People protest in front of a wall of photos of victims of the 1988  Massacre of political prisoners  in Iran during an exhibition at the Palais des Nations in front of the  United Nations  (UN) European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 September 2017. The shoes with flowers represent the victims of the mass execution. In the summer of 1988, some 30,000 Iranian political prisoners were massacred in a matter of a few months on the basis of a fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Human rights organizations and jurists are demanding the UN to conduct an independent international investigation of the 1988 massacre.