This Sunday May 14th 1-4pm under the Marble Arch itself, a co-ordinated global action takes place across major cities in Europe and the USA to support Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper wrongfully imprisoned for making music Continue reading
Announcing a 2 day conference “Tomorrow, Today: Woman Life Freedom” Wednesday April 19th / Thursday April 20th at the University of the Arts London. Continue reading
By Camilla Turner, Chief Political Correspondent 25 March 2023 • 9:00pm The immigration minister is understood to be concerned about whether sufficient due diligence is being carried out before visas are issued The Home Office has launched a review into visas issued to Iranian clerics, amid concern they are being used as a “backdoor” entrance … Continue reading
British-Iranian journalist Vahid Beheshti has been on hunger strike for 26 days, an unimaginable endurance, lasting longer than the month of February. Not only an internal struggle, but Beheshti braves the physical endurance of spending the tail end of a British winter outside on the inhospitable streets of London, in a tent. The journalist has … Continue reading
This film shows the depth of misogyny and reaction that underpins sex apartheid and femicide in Iran. Continue reading
London’s Iranian avant-garde music and sound arts community, with their friends, put on a fundraiser at Iklectik. Electronica, piano, cello, soprano, Welsh-Iranian folk, works by singer-song-writers and visuals. Tickets on the door or via Paypal here, donations also welcome.
Plus an art exhibition of the “Say Their Names Art Project”, portraits of the fallen in Iran, by artists of other backgrounds. Also participating are Art Terry on piano, of the Art Terry Band and “Is Black Music” on Resonance04.4FM and Omid Amir Larijani on sax. Continue reading
It is no secret the the Kurdish spirit has long been a thorn in the side of the Iranian regime, their own Kurdish regions and Iraq’s have been instrumental in the struggle against the totalitarian regime. Meanwhile Turkey’s dictator Erdogan is irritated by Turkish-Kurdish resistance, and has recently been bombing the Kurdish regions in Turkey … Continue reading
We hear direct from Iranian voices and also from activist Steve Marsling who as a teenager from South East London worked towards the end of the bloody South African regime, with exemplary success. Continue reading
Six Pillars 