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room decor was good walls quite thin
Friendly staff and honest down to earth food ( I ate in the bar) The room was a little shabby and the plumbing eccentric. And, although all the advertising says that the Hotel is 17th Century, surely it's 18th.
The hotel was extremely good and we enjoyed our stay. It was friendly, welcoming and comfortable. Everyone was very accomodating and efficient and it felt home from home. The real log fire was the icing on the cake!!
Nice atmosphere created by super staff Intrusive dog made me sneeze, owner didn't stop it slobbering on me
Good location, lovely food and excellent staff. Room rather cluttered, though comfortable and adequate. Lack of central heating, but heaters good.
we particularly enjoyed dinner on saturday night if I want to be critical I found the furnishings in the suite dated, comfortable but not as pleasing to the eye as one might expect.
traditional pub ambience, roaring log fire in bar and good service there. cramped reception area, inability of staff to deal with 2 sets of guests arriving together, poor quality breakfast, one inedible choice at dinner
Helpful staff and what I imagined a coaching inn would be like. Poor quality toilet paper in room compared to the public bar toilet. No biscuits in room.
Great Food and very good staff.
Pleasant atmosphere with friendly staff who knew what they were doing and seemed to enjoy doing it.
Comfortable room Very loud, huge TV screen at breakfast.
The room. It was superb. Also I had a double room to myself at no extra cost. It would be a wonderful hotel if it had its own restaurant. There is, however, an Italian restaurant nearby which was all right.
the warm welcome by the reception staff, the really good and ample breakfast the batteries in the remote were dud
the room was lovely and clean and had everything we required. The breakfast was also very nice. Our only negatives were that there was nowhere for us to sit and eat breakfast as the room was full(too small for an almost 500 room hotel) so we had to come back later and the glasses for juice were warm as were the cereal bowls. Plus there was no milk in our rooms to go with the tea/coffee.
room was lovely and modern gym was extra charge which you didnt state! breakfast a little disappointing, no bacon just sausages
Clean modern hotel, friendly staff. Quite difficult to adjust temperature in room.
The way they looked after the guests and the food at the Olive Tree The service at the Olive Tree was not of the same high standard
That I had somewhere to sleep. The bathroom was nice. Food was not served on the premises. They had to go go over to the nearby hotel so when food was delivered it was cold and soggy. Staff weren't that welcoming. The room needed to be updated.
The great location, I was attending a competition at the International centre. To wake up and be a 1 minute walk away from the centre was fantastic! The facilities were good too, the bathroom was really impressive! Being charged to use the spa and swimming pool, I thought it was all included in the price
Everyone was extremely pleasant and helpful. In particular the two guys who were on night duty helped me out by printing work for me at 6ams
very convenient and friendly and good food
Excellent value for money - much better than others in same price bracket. Clean, comfortable rooms; good service.
Food and facilities The rooms are not well insulated for noise from other rooms and corridor
Location, free parking and family friendly. Room could have been bigger as we had our daughter and it was a bit cramped with the extra bed in there. Food prices are a bit steep and we ordered a burger for our daughter and because it was a bit 'fancy' she wouldn't eat it.
Comfortable bed and room Poor food menu and shambolic service. The "curry night" made the reception smell like a school canteen.
Pleasant staff, good value for money, good facilities Bathroom looking a bit worn
swimming pool and leisure facilities
Staff most helpful and all children in our group enjoyed the swimming pool. About 5 minutes walk from the hotel there is a pub that does a really cheap carvery great for kidand adults. Could not fault it
Location was good, ease of access good, and the staff were excellent and very helpfull. Pool was good especially for the kids. The free entry to Wonderland with your key card was excellent as well. For what we paid it was an excellent stay. My only minor gripes would be the small double beds we had and that the two children we had with us had to pay full price for breakfast, so we chose not to eat at the Grays but we would have if they had been at least half price! Something they should look at i think.
the location is perfect and a beautiful old building also the bathroom was really awful
Helpful staff. Good food in the restaurants. Being rushed through dinner as there was a large party in.
The location was great. The breakfast was even better. All in all a great stay. n/a
Location and external appearance. Cracks in the tiles; holes in the walls; dank view of the internal courtyard. Before I stayed at the hotel I believed it was a three-star going on four, but now I know it's going on two. Time for a total internal refurbishment...
Good breakfast and excellent meal at Chambers The car parking arrangements
Have stayed here before and found it a pleasant and convenient place to stay in Shrewsbury. Will most likely be back again in the New Year. Thank you
We loved the location and the breakfast was first class, cooked to order too. The bedroom was on the small side.
Very comfortable and well and conveniently situated in the town. Did not find one of the check in people very friendly.
The reception staff in particular were very helpful
My wife has coeliac disease and so is restricted in what she can eat. The chef was most helpful and considerate with many suggestions and amendments to the prepared dishes for her.
Lovely relaxing atmosphere with very friendly staff and super breakfast. We only wish we could have stayed for Sunday lunch-it was fully booked-next time...
The staff were very helpful, the hotel restaurant was really good. Excellent menu and preparation and presentation of food. Very comfortable room.
We received an extremely warm welcome and the staff were all very friendly and the service was impeccable. Food was superb.
The food was good but the canapes and amuse bouche a little pretentious. The decor and facilities in the room were like stepping back in time. There was damp on the walls, the side of the bath was rotten and the bed spread on the bed didn't reach the floor.
Friendly and relaxing stay, lovely town. great walking country. Well looked after by staff.
Peace and quiet; attentive, friendly staff and very little piped music in a very beautiful location. The plumbing in room 7 had character! Considerable variation in water pressure and tepid water if one is too early or late to shower in the mornings.
Friendly staff Good food A little on the expensive side
The hotel was very good and very quiet although busy. The amenities were excellent. Food was amazing. Car parking very good.
Excellent Service, Staff remembered us from last time. No nothing.
All staff were friendly and helpful food was excellent
I was extremely pleased with the hotel, it obviously has high standards. I liked the leisure facilities and the friendly, helpful staff. ( My 11 year old son who was enjoying his birthday there really enjoyed himself)
The room was very comfortable and for the price a bargain Breakfast was a bit chaotic
Friendly and efficient staff. Excellent room. Unbeatable rate which included breakfast.
Room was a decent size, comfortable, fairly quiet and clean. Hotel staff friendly and helpful. Parking was free. Have stayed here before on several occasions and would do so again. Didn't like adjoining door - lots of potential for noise from the adjoining room. This wasn't a problem on this occasion as I suspect it was unoccupied but it has been a nuisance in the past.
Hotel close to Telford for shopping Room was very cold
rooms were spacious and very clean
Spotlessly clean, fresh rooms. Well-designed with plugs near mirror ! - hair-straightening made easy ! Trendy, well-made furnishings. Lovely! Suberb leisure facilities. Poor wine list - included Asti Spumante!!! A nice Cava for a celebration would have been better.
Service was outstanding. The decor was very classy rather than the run of the mill standard decor.
A very succesful stay - All the staff were so friendly and helpfull. Just felt so relaxed and easy. Had a realy great night in the bar with the regulars. It was supposed to be a one night business trip and it turned into a great mini-break. I shall be returning with my wife for a long weekend before christmas. I certainly wish I worked in Telford more often
We had an exceptionally warm welcome. The hotel was furnished to a very high standard; there were many personal touches that meant one felt less like you were staying in a hotel and more like staying with a very chic and sophisticated friend. The bar was comfortable and contempory. Despite being a little late for dinner we were given ample time to choose our food and then only when the first course was ready were we shown to our seat in the restaurant allowing time for a relaxed drink before dinner. The food was delightful; fresh simple and beautifully presented. The cooked breakfast was to die for! I haven't enjoyed a night away from the children so much in years!
The food was excellent at the hotel. The hotel was lovely, however the walls are very thin but I would defnitely stay again.
Excellent hotel. Very friendly helpful staff, great service, lovely food and an extremly clean hotel. An all round great experience. Would recommend and will definately stay again. Plus lots of nice touches which make this hotel stand out from the crowd.
The decor throughout the hotel was outstanding. The breakfast was beautiful and I wish I could have had an opportunity to have dinner as the menu look wonderful n/a
The whole ambience
100% perfect. The owners should be so proud of what they have put together here. The staff are very friendly yet seamlessly professional. The Food was delicious, beautiful and comforting, not cranky or pompous, as I have found in most establishments of this type. My room was very clean, well presented and packed with tasty treats. I cant wait to stay again......... Thank You
Service and food excellant
Warm friendly welcome, and attention to detail. Fantastic meal and accomodation.
Tucked away Staff in Restaurant wore "grey" shirts which originally would have been white. If the table cloths can be a bright white why can't you put the staff's white shirts in the same wash?
As a wedding function was held that evening a party followed in the corridor and in adjacent bedrooms until 3am (yes!!! 3 in the morning) which made it very difficult to get any sleep. Other residents complained loudly and the hotel management were nowhere to be seen. I will not stay at this hotel again!!!!!
Dinner Bar staff and poor service there
The relaxed atmosphere,the food was first class. Friendly staff on hand. I loved the pool and spa.A very good 4 star hotel. I would have liked a map to find my room. Im terrible at directions and kept getting lost. Maybe have some landmark pictures. Go left at the Picasso sort of thing.
In ownn grounds, pool and gym, friendly and helpful staff
On Arrival the Hotel was well presented Room was nice, However the bathroom was dirty, mould / discolured around the bath and shower screen quite off putting. Sorry
The receptionist ( training to be a clinical psychologist ) was the most smiley ideal receptionist and of course gave the most wonderful first impression.Other staff excellent ,good breakfast and inclusive use of the spa is terrific value.will come again. The electric storeage heater in room 60 was not particularly efficient
The room overall was very good plenty of space. The decor was to a high standed. The shower was poor, breakfast was not the best! the tv in the room should be updated.
The spa facilities were very good On the whole the hotel staff all gave poor service
use of the spa facilities really creaky floors
The assurance of having been there before. We weren't aware that the excellent rate resulted from the ongoing building work! We got repeatedly 'lost' walking the wrong way to the restuarant/bar etc. and the work outside our window started quite early and was fairly intrusive.
Nice room with a lovely shower, reasonable bar prices
staff were friendly, grounds were lovely, rooms were very good clean and tidy,and the view was lovely food was terrible and bar was shabby but it is being refurbished so hopefully it will be alot better when this is completed
Friendly efficient staff. good facilities, well laid out.
The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The rooms were lovely and the food in the restaurant on the Saturday night was stunning. We ordered breakfast in bed and the quality and presentation of the food was very poor.
Peace & quite every thing we asked for was delt with adequetly
Good Breakfast Hotel rather shabby. I.m sure it will be much nicer after the planned refit. Poor service in the restaurant in the evening
It was a wonderful and i would reccommend to others.
the spa and location no vegetarian menu
all staff could speak english therefore could answer questions relating to our queries sunday night you had a large group of men in restuarant cos of this we totally ingored when it came to our desert order / coffee complained to deputy manager at the time ,recompence was free drink at bar but it was our anniversary and the meal was supposed to be special it ruined the night we didnt go back to the restuarant on the two other nights we stayed but still enjoyed the other amenties in the hotel
Excellent staff, excellent facilities, no fault in any way
The service was excellent and very welcoming, they could not do enough for you. The room was excellent, very clean and beautifully decorated. Breakfast was delicious and you could choose what ever you wanted. There were not any bad points.
Good value hotel - booked room at about half price - excellent breakfast!! Poor heating in room - free internet advertised but connected only intermittantly
The interior. Very nice looking hotel with large rooms! No
sport room (swimming, sauna, running machine...)
The noisy disco till 2am
the quality of the room my friends stayed in anotther room but it was too cold for them.
Really good value for money. Exactly what I was looking for
Evening meal excellent, room comfortable although a bit small (71) Quality of breakfast not good
Spacious rooms with all the necessary items to enable a business traveller staying over 3 days to be self sufficient Room temperature was too high, opening window too noisy and fan too distracting
-Close to the main street of Shifnal, with a lot of restaurants and shops at five minutes (walking) from the hotel.
accommodation & service
Nice and friendly staff,clean room nice breakfast very old and dirty pluming system
Bathroom was shabby. Silverfish appearing at night. Room fairly comfortable but a let down compared to the excellent foyer, reception, bar and restaurant.
Staff were helpful, facilities were excellent, particularly the pool, jacuzzi & steam room. Nothing
Location to International Centre was good as we were able to shop the same time. Situated away from many restaurants.
public areas room requires refurbishment particularly the bathroom
Staff were helpful. room nice and breakfast excellent. Our room was in a wing and to reach it we had to walk through a fairly scruffy area with a gym etc. Once we got to our room it was nice.
Very close to the conference centre. Staff coped well with the large number of guests (several conferences, events on at the same time). Even though booked non smoking rooms many months prior to the stay, these are not guarenteed, issued on a first come, first served basis.I Didn't notice if this was stated on the booking form/ information at the time of booking.Cleanliness of the bathroom was not good.
it was cheap & chearful and clean and comfortable and well located when we came to check out the receptionist tried to charge us double the price even though the booking in card said £47
Duty manager responded well and positively to my request for a change of room. The gym is OK. Vastly overpriced for standard of accomodation and the food is awful. The only reason for staying in this hotel is the lack of alternative in the area.
The staff were very helpful and nothing was too much trouble, an excellent hotel and i'm sure i'll stay there again.
4 attemts to get access to the room before the faulty lock was changed
Comfortable bed. Lots of clean white towels. Interesting old building. Handy for river. Noisy (near building site and pubs). Instant coffee with breakfast. Lots of stairs to climb with suitcase. Overpowering "air fresheners". No thermostat on radiator. Owner not particularly friendly.
situation, very convenient could do with a few finishing touches
Queit cozy place but within few minutes of town square. Family-run informality, excellent breakfast. The breakfast window of 8-9 on a Sunday was too early, too short. The room cleaners also worked only till 11 on Sunday which was surprising.
Clean and tidy, staff helpful and friendly No Parking, tv reception was poor.
Good location, close to shops, restaurants and attractions but on a quiet(ish) road; easy to come and go when we wanted and a car park nearby. Service a bit uninspired; certainly not the friendliest hotel we have stayed in. Decor a bit tired and old fashioned.
Very central setting. Welcoming owners. Parking is an issue in the mornings
Friendly greeting on arrival, comfortable room and a great breakfast.Would stay again.
The room was very comfortable. The breakfast was excellent.
I only stayed one night, but my overall impression was of an efficiently run hotel. There was nothing I disliked.
The bathroom tiles and the wifi I found the brekfast staff unpleasant. It seemed as if he didn't want to be there - he keep banging the plates and cups about - in fact another breakfaster commented upon this. He was quite grumpy. Maybe he should look for a new job. The cleaning lady and the young girl were much nicer.
We liked the comfortable bed and the downstairs rooms especially the big open fireplace.The breakfasts were really lovely. Our room was at the front next to the busy road so was very noisy at times.
The choice of lounges, restaurants, bars. We also enjoyed the breakfasts, and found all of the staff pleasant and helpful. The bedroom was outdated (regardless of the old character of the hotel) and parking was difficult. Possibly, locals use the parking facilities on a Saturday and there were no spaces left for hotel guests.
warm with big open fires, town centre location with car parking Poor selection of wine, drinks very expensive
The restaurnat staff werer both efficient and friendly - the food was nicely presented and well cooked Not really - the floor boards creaked - but the place is after all very old...this was charming, really. But could disturb other guests etc in the adjoinng rooms!
its location right in the centre of town. walking distance to everything we needed. free parking.
Very comfy bed Large Bath Log fire in Lounge Excellent breakfast
Service was friendly and unobstrusive, there was plenty of comfortable lounge area for both quiet and socialising with guests etc. It was central for our purpose and had a carpark.
Good Food, Clean Room, Friendly Staff
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November 15, 2009 VOLUME 66
To our readers,
The Iranian regime has displayed all the indicators of a falling regime in recent months. The brutal suppression in the streets, inhumane treatment of political prisoners, all forms of media crackdown and paranoia even over the its own "revolutionary" events, has not calmed the fundamentalist rulers in Tehran because the Iranian people, especially women, are not going to back down. There is no doubt, given the barbaric nature of this regime, the price of liberty and freedom is going to be even more costly in coming months. Yet, the demise of this regime is evitable. Protesters, especially women, are increasingly at odds with those "opposition" leaders' insistence on preserving the country's system of religious governance. The opposition has gone beyond "down with dictators", "down with Ahmadinejad" to "down with Khameinie" targeting the heart of theocracy and fundamentalism in power. Protesters also send strong, yet different, messages to Russia and USA. Their message for Russia was to stop its political and diplomatic support for the regime in Tehran. Their message to President Obama is to pick a side when they chant "Obama, Obama, you're either with us or with them."
With such bravery, one wonders what does it take for Washington to see the writing on the wall? What does it take to stand by the Iranian people and their desire for liberty and freedom? While the people of Iran, with their blood and sacrifice, are nurturing a formidable and undefeatable resistance to bring down this regime, Washington stands in silence and even looks the other way! As an Iranian woman said in a recent interview, " we will not forget those who stand with us and those who looked the other way when this regime kills and executes so many of our loved ones."
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The Christian Post – October 16, 2009
Since March, the two
Iranian women have been detained in the infamous Evin prison where
they were reportedly denied medical attention and often blindfolded
for interrogations for several hours at a time. Amirizadeh is said
to be enduring ongoing pain from a spinal problem, as well as an
infected tooth and intense headaches. The two are recent converts to
Christianity from Islam. According to reports received by the Farsi
Christian News Network, though they were arrested for
anti-government activities, the only "crime" the women have
committed is being practicing Christians. Despite the mental and
physical hardships, both women stated at a court hearing on Aug. 9
that they will not recant their faith. At the most recent hearing on
Oct. 7, the two women said, "If we come out of prison we want to do
so with honor." Iran holds the No. 3 spot on Open Doors' list of
countries with the worst Christian persecution record. Last year,
the Iranian Parliament gave its initial approval to a bill that
would punish apostasy with death. There have been no updates on
whether the bill has received final approval from parliament.
Reuters News Agency - October 16, 2009
Iranian bloggers won a major press
award Friday for their efforts to cover the Islamic Republic's
disputed presidential election.
Iranian journalist Delbar Tavakoli, who fled the country after losing her job, received Friday the 2009 Mohamed Amin Award on behalf of the bloggers "for their commitment, bravery and dedication under harrowing conditions and extraordinary pressure while covering the presidential election.""Iranian bloggers redefined the concept of citizen journalism and social networking when they became the only source of news in Iran post-election," Christoph Pleitgen, head of Reuters News Agency media business said in a statement."I dedicate this prize to the Iranian journalists who worked hard to let the world know what is happening in Iran," Tavakoli said. "It is very hard to work as a journalist in Iran...The main reason for this is censorship."
NCRI Website - October 21, 2009
Iranian regime's henchmen hanged five
prisoners including Soheila Ghadiri, a 28-year-old woman, in
Tehran's Evin prison on Wednesday. Soheila Ghadiri's death sentence
was quashed after the victim's family had pardoned her. Saeed
Mortazavi, known as Judge Mortazavi, former Tehran Chief Prosecutor
and current deputy Prosecutor General, responsible for torture and
execution of thousands of prisoners, reopened her case which
eventually led to her execution despite all efforts to save her
life. She is the fourth woman hanged by the regime in the past 25
days. Mullahs' insistence on carrying out such barbaric sentences
has nothing to do with crimes allegedly committed by prisoners, but
an effort to intensify the atmosphere of fear and terror in the
country, especially among women and youths who have displayed their
resolve to overthrow the regime and establish democracy and people's
sovereignty in their nationwide uprising in the past few months.
Stop Fundamentalism.com - October 26, 2009
Hengameh Shahidi, an Iranian woman Journalist and a member of Etemad-Meli Party, headed by Iran's former presidential candidate, Mehdi Karrubi, has started a hunger strike in the Iranian notorious Evin prison, Iranian news sources say.Iranian Journalist, Hengameh Shahidi. Shahidi who has been detained for the past four months, started her hunger strike after she was transferred to the public ward of the prison. She intends to continue her strike until she is freed. Shahidi has been subject to intense torture and abuse in prison since her arrest. Shahidi who is a reputable journalist was arrested after the unrest erupted following June elections in Iran. Sources also indicate that another prisoner, Payman Aref, an imprisoned university student, has joined Shahidi in her hunger strike. Aref was banned from attending classes after June uprising. He was then arrested and is currently in solitary prison. While four months has passed since the Iranian post election unrest, arbitrary arrests of journalists, students and others are on the rise.
Reuters News Agency- October 29, 2009
An Iranian journalist and political
activist detained after the Islamic Republic's disputed election in
June has gone on hunger strike, a reformist website reported
Thursday. Norouz website said Hengameh Shahidi, who worked for the
Etemad-e Melli newspaper of pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi, started
her action in Tehran's Evin jail Tuesday. "She is suffering from
heart disease and severe depression," it said, giving no source.
Norouz said Shahidi, a women's rights activist who advised Karoubi in the June 12 presidential election, had been detained for several months. Etemad-e Melli was shut down by the authorities in August.
WFAFI News Agency - October 29, 2009
A young woman, who initially identified herself as Soheila, was hanged in Tehran based on charges of killing her own baby. Soheila was later identified by her uncle using her birth certificate. Her real name was Khorshid. Her uncle explained to the court that after her father's death, her family struggled financially. Khorshid ran away from him and became a victim of prostitution and poverty. Once imprisoned she attempted to reach out to her family but given their traditional attitude the family did not offer her any help.
NCRI Website - November 4, 2009
Women and girls actively and
courageously participated in November 4 mass demonstrations and were
in the forefront of many protests, according to reports by the
Social Headquarters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
inside the country. In Tehran University, female students formed
human chains in front of male students to protect them from being
injured or arrested by the State Security Forces. During the
anti-regime protest in Karim Khan Zand Street in Tehran, a young
woman quarreled with a plainclothes agent who intended to arrest
her. Later, a group of Bassij forces attacked and arrested her. In
Northern Mofateh Street and the beginning of Modarress Street,
Bassij paramilitary forces attacked demonstrators and insulted them
and arrested many women and girls. In Azadi Square and streets of
Azadi and Jamalzadeh, anti-riot units and suppressive forces
arrested many girls and women and injured many more. Many
participants in today's demonstrations were young female school
students who joined anti-regime protesters rather than the
demonstration organized by the regime.
The Associated Press - November 7, 2009
Iranian police have detained 109 people
for "disturbing public order" during an opposition rally this week,
the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Azizollah
Rajabzadeh, a security spokesman, said 62 of those detained have
been handed over to judicial authorities for trial and the rest have
been released after questioning."Police detained 109 people who
disturbed public order on the sidelines of the rally," he said. "62
of those arrested were handed over to judicial authorities and the
rest were set free. Of 62 detained, 43 are men and 19 women."
NCRI Website - November 11, 2009
Iranian regime has intensified pressures on women political prisoners in Iran. All visits and telephone calls to the prisoners in the women's ward of Tehran's notorious Evin prison have been cancelled. The prison authorities enforced the limitations after women prisoners refrained from forcibly going outside the building in the cold weather at 6:00 a.m. as their daily break. Shabnam Madadzadeh, Mahsa Naderi, Atefeh Nabavi, Fatemeh Ziaie Azad, and Nazila Dashti are among those held in the women's ward of Evin prison. Mahsa Naderi, 19, arrested last February for "having contact with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)" is in critical condition. She has been suffering from various illnesses due to months of torture and solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin prison by Saeed Sheikhan. Her family's requests for temporary leave to seek medical treatment for her had not been answered. Shabnam Madadzadeh, Mahsa Naderi, Atefeh Nabavi and Fatemeh Ziaie Azad, have been held for months without determination of their status. Atefeh Nabavi was arrested and imprisoned on June 15, 2009 during the post -election period. She spent 95 days in Ward 209 and later transferred to the ward known as "Metadon," and women's ward. Kobra Banazadeh, a relative of PMOI members residing in Ashraf, Aalieh Eghdam Doost, a women activist held in Gohardasht prison, and Fariba Pazhoh, a reporter held in Ward 209 of Evin prison are living in agonizing prison conditions. They are among the women political prisoners who were arrested along with hundreds of other women and girls in recent demonstrations particularly the November 4th protest. The number of prisoners held in prison cells are much higher than their assigned capacities; hence they are deprived of their primary needs and medical treatment.
The Associated Press - November 11, 2009
Iran has protested to an Oxford
University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian
student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the
disputed June election. In Tehran, a small group of hard-line women
demonstrated Wednesday against the scholarship in front of the
British Embassy. The women chanted "Death to Britain," the
semi-official Fars news agency reported. Oxford's Queen's College
established the Neda Agha Soltan Graduate Scholarship in Philosophy
earlier this year, named for the 27-year-old student fatally shot on
June 20 on the sidelines of a Tehran demonstration. Her dying
moments were caught on a video viewed by millions on the Internet,
and she became a potent symbol of the opposition's struggle."It
seems that the University of Oxford has stepped up involvement in a
politically motivated campaign which is not only in sharp contrast
with academic objectives" but also linked to British interference in
Iran's post-election turmoil, Iran's Embassy in London said in a
letter to the provost of the British university's college.
The Arab Times - November 14, 2009
Iran has deployed a special police unit
to sweep websites for political material and prosecute those deemed
to be spreading lies, Iranian media reported Saturday, in a step
clearly aimed at choking off the embattled opposition's last real
means of keeping its campaign alive.
Many opposition websites are already banned, but the activation of the new 12-member unit, which will report to the prosecutor's office, signals an intention to strike a more severe blow to a movement that refuses to accept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in June.
"Authorities know that the Internet is one of the few available channels for the opposition to make its voice heard. They want to silence opposition voices," said reform-minded journalist Akbar Montajabi, who described the measure as the latest set of restrictions imposed on media in the country.
Reuters News Agency - November 15, 2009
The trial of a French teaching assistant
who was arrested on spying charges following Iran's disputed
election in June will resume on Tuesday, the ISNA news agency
reported on Sunday. Clotilde Reiss, who is out of jail on bail, has
been staying in the French embassy in Tehran since her trial started
on August 16. ISNA cited a statement from Tehran's Revolutionary
Court for its report on the new trial session, but did not give
NCRI Website - November 15, 2009
Some 200 mothers of those killed during people's uprisings and the political prisoners held a protest rally in Tehran's Laleh Park on Saturday. Similar rallies have been held every Saturday since the beginning of nationwide uprising. The suppressive forces encircled Abnama Square inside the Park in order to prevent gathering and mothers' demonstration. On Thursday, November 12, families of those killed in the uprising went to Tehran's Beheshte Zahra cemetery to pay respect to their lost loved ones. Big crowd of people also joined them to express their sympathy and solidarity with the families. Agents of the regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security who did not dare to go into the crowd tried to identify the participants and secretly filmed them.
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Iran's Politics Open a Generational
By Nazila Fathi
The New York Times
October 22, 2009
TORONTO — It had been years since Narges Kalhor could talk about politics with her father, Mehdi, a senior adviser and spokesman for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. He advocated greater restraints on social and political expression, while she favored more freedom. Still, they had always managed to get along.
But after Iran's disputed presidential election in June and the protests that followed, the disagreement exploded into a breach. Last week — as her father accused her of being manipulated by the opponents of the government — Ms. Kalhor, now 25, applied for refugee status in Germany.
"The difference between my generation and my parents' generation, who are very ideological, is just increasing day by day," she said in a telephone interview from Germany. "Their goals have not materialized, and it is our turn to lead the way."
While Ms. Kalhor's case has been widely publicized, she is hardly alone. Numerous children of prominent Iranians have become estranged from their powerful parents since the election, which the opposition says was rigged. Thousands more middle-class families have been divided by the generational chasm that opened over the summer.
Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, was arrested during the protests in July and tortured to death, according to his father, who has staunchly defended the government's handling of the unrest.
The son of another senior official close to Mr. Ahmadinejad, who is a student activist in Tehran but spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his father, said he and his father had for years avoided talking about politics.
"I know he has tried to protect me in the past and he tells me that whatever I do, I should not get into trouble," he said. Last year, his father tried to send him to London to continue his studies and stay out of politics. But he refused to go and stayed to campaign against Mr. Ahmadinejad.
Mehdi Khazali, the son of Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, a senior cleric close to Mr. Ahmadinejad, criticizes the country's top leadership on his blog, drkhazali.net. At one point, he wrote that his father supported Mr. Ahmadinejad and the conservatives only because he had been "cheated, lied to and taken advantage of for his religious beliefs."
Because of the growing alienation of young Iranians, family dynamics could be complex, particularly among the families of elite government officials. "These children are more affected by society and even Facebook and Twitter on the Internet than their families," said Alireza Haghighi, an Iranian political analyst at the University of Toronto. "The younger generation has been very frustrated with the political situation."
In Ms. Kalhor's case, her parents' religious and political conservatism did not extend to daily life. Her father, who has been an adviser to Mr. Ahmadinejad since 2005, helped and encouraged Ms. Kalhor to become a graphic designer and a filmmaker.
Mr. Kalhor embodied other contradictions, having appeared as a campaigner for Mr. Ahmadinejad on national television in 2005 wearing his long hair in a ponytail — something that is frowned upon by conservatives — and saying that all Iranians in exile, including the son of the shah, would be allowed to return to the country if Mr. Ahmadinejad were elected.
Ms. Kalhor said that through it all she remained close to her father until a year ago, when he moved out after separating from her mother. But she was also developing her own political views, she said.
"My generation wants its most basic needs such as freedom of expression and personal freedoms," she said. "We want to live, we do not want to face persecution for expressing our political opinion; as women, we don't want to walk on the street with the constant horror that we could be intimidated for showing an inch of hair."
She said she began participating in the rallies in favor of Mr. Ahmadinejad's leading opponent, Mir Hussein Moussavi, before the elections and voted for him in hope of real change. Infuriated by Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election, which she called a "gross lie," she joined the protests, during which, she said, she was beaten by the police and tear-gassed.
"This was an explosion of 30 years of suppression and intimidations of my generation," she said of the protests. "I am happy that we finally found the courage to speak up."
Ms. Kalhor went to a German film festival last week to show her movie "The Rake," which is based on a Kafka short story about torture in prison, "In the Penal Colony." While there, she made no secret of her support for the opposition movement at the festival, wearing a scarf of the opposition's trademark green and appearing without the head scarf that is mandatory for Iranian women, even when they are outside the country.
She said she decided to apply for refugee status after hearing from friends that she faced arrest if she returned.
Her father reacted angrily and said that he was unaware of his daughter's trip to Germany and that she had been tricked.
"I believe she has been tricked by the country's enemies and has become a tool for propaganda," Mr. Kalhor told the Mehr news agency. "As a father, I advise her not take a path that has no return and not become an instrument in the hands of the enemy."
Ms. Kalhor brushed aside her father's claims, saying she had no other choice.
Iranian awarded Dutch human rights
November, 9 2009
By Perro de Jong
The Radio Netherland
Shadi Sadr has helped Iranian women with
free legal assistance and has started a campaign against stoning. She's
been awarded one of the foremost Dutch human rights prizes, the Human
Rights Tulip. But not before experiencing the regime's violence against
women first-hand.
"They beat me and forced me to go with them", Shadi Sadr tells Dutch radio. She was detained last July in the wake of popular protests against president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and brought to the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran. Her interrogators knew exactly who she was.
In 2004, Sadr had founded Raahi: an organisation for women in legal trouble. Because Iranian women have few rights and even less independent access to funds, they're often helpless in court. Raahi offered them free legal assistance, until the authorities closed it down.
More recently, Sadr made even more enemies within the regime.
She began a campaign "to defend women who are sentenced to stoning", she says. Because the victims of this traditional - and in the eyes of many barbaric - form of punishment are almost never men.
When she was detained in July, her interrogators at Evin Prison accused her of being controlled by foreign powers out to overthrow president Ahmadinejad.
But unlike many of the protesters who'd taken to the streets the month before to demonstrate against the president's disputed re-election, Sadr was released after eleven days without being tortured.
Since her release - thanks, she believes, to international pressure on Tehran - Shadi Sadr has been living in Germany.
The Dutch government has awarded her the Human Rights Tulip for her "extraordinary courage". But, she says, it's not just her struggle that's being recognized in this way.
She dedicates the award - which she received from Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen in The Hague - to "all the people in Iran who fight every day to get their rights." Despite the fact that the protests against the president's re-election were crushed, she remains optimistic.
"The gaps between the government and the people are increasing day by day", she says. "No government can survive such a gap for a long time, so either the government will solve the problem with the people. Or the people will solve the problem themselves."
The Human Rights Tulip comes with a stipend of 10,000 euros. In addition, it includes funding of up to 100,000 euros for projects proposed by the winner, to further promote her or his cause.
Iran's opposition steers challenge
toward the top
By Brian Murphy
The Associated Press
November 11, 2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Just minutes before anti-riot police charged opposition marchers in Tehran last week, a new chant bubbled up from the crowd: "Death to Nobody."
It was more than just a play on the "Death to America" slogans that are staples of Iran's political life. The cries give a sense of how much the protest movement has evolved since the raw outrage of last summer.
The demonstrations have moved beyond narrow attacks on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his disputed re-election in June. They are now drifting toward a blanket challenge of the Islamic leadership's right to rule.
"It's gone from anti-Ahmadinejad to more of anti-regime in general," said Mustafa Alani, a regional analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. "That's an important shift."
And here lies the protesters' strength, but also their potential unraveling, some experts say.
An overall challenge to the powers of non-elected clerics — headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — could provide the big picture goal to sustain the demonstrations for years. But it also carries risks. Top among them: alienating the opposition leadership, who remain still loyal to the Islamic system, and bringing even harsher crackdowns by authorities who can justify use of violence to protect the status quo.
The two senior figures in the opposition, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, have repeatedly said they do not seek to overthrow the ruling clerics. Since July, authorities have put on trial more than 100 pro-reform figures accused of being part of a plot to topple this religious hierarchy.
Mousavi and Karroubi's reluctance could leave room for more militant opposition leaders to emerge in the future.
The protests last week coincided with state-run rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The timing, like the shouts of "Death to Nobody," were a symbolic challenge to one of the ideological pillars of the regime — the anti-U.S. fervor of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-American shah.
Just blocks away from the opposition marches, the pro-government demonstrators were bellowing the standard beat of "Death to America" to mark the Nov. 4 embassy seizure.
Many pro-reform marchers still wore the green colors of Mousavi, who claims he is the rightful winner of the June 12 presidential election.
But much of the protesters' defiance went beyond Mousavi's complaints over the election and the subsequent crackdown and targeted Khamenei in acts that were almost unthinkable before the postelection meltdown. Protesters tore up or trampled images of the supreme leader, whose most ardent backers believe is answerable only to God.
Demonstrators also called on President Barack Obama to pick a side, in apparent frustration with White House efforts for direct talks with Iran's leaders. "Obama, Obama, you are either with them, or with us," they chanted.
The opposition leaders were not among the crowd. Reformist web sites say hard-line vigilantes kept Mousavi from leaving his office. Karroubi was overcome by tear gas and left before riot police moved in, according to his Web site.
More than 100 people were detained, including several journalists, but most were later released.
Karroubi later denounced the "very ugly" tactics of police, which he claimed included attacking women. Mousavi issued a statement calling for the rights of all Iranians to be respected. But there was nothing to suggest they would follow the protesters' lead in hardening their stance against Iran's political system.
After security forces crushed that massive protests that erupted after the election, opposition groups in recent months have used major state-backed events to stage rival rallies.
The next test could come Dec. 7, which marks the death of three students in 1953 during protests of a visit by then-Vice President Richard Nixon for talks with the shah.
Reform groups appear focused on trying to build a credible turnout for the next marches after just several thousand joined last week's protests.
Some reformist Web sites have urged students to stay off campus on the days of future marches so they can't be blocked from joining by security forces. Many other sites are carrying one of the new symbols of the opposition: a green-hued drawing of a young woman wearing a headscarf and thrusting up her fist in protest.
"The long-term crisis for the government isn't over," said Alireza Nader, an analyst of Iranian affairs at the RAND Corp. in Washington.
Still, authorities must be careful about how hard they push back or else they risk a backlash. The government crackdown so far "has been very violent but measured in some ways," Nader said. But if authorities carry out threats to arrest Mousavi and Karroubi, "this could fan the flames," he said.
Some high-level officials have offered talks with the opposition as a way to keep the tensions from spilling over to recurring cycles of protests and violence.
The former chief of the judiciary and close ally of Khamenei, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, was quoted Monday in Iranian newspapers as calling the postelection rifts a "family dispute" that can be worked out through dialogue.
But Meir Javedanfar, an Iran analyst based in Israel, said Khamenei "sees the reformist movement as a threat" and aims to "stifle its growth and, if he can, to completely suffocate them."
But the greater the pressure, the more risk he could rally people around the protests.
"Khamenei's actions could actually strengthen the reformist movement," he said.
Neda 'was ready to die for cause' in Iran
November 15, 2009
Agance France Presse
An Iranian killed in protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in June was willing to be "shot in the heart" for her cause, her boyfriend said in an interview Sunday.
The killing of Neda Agha-Soltan on June 20 came to symbolise the public uprising against Ahmadinejad's victory earlier that month in presidential elections against Mir Hossein Mousavi which the opposition says were rigged.
A graphic Internet video of her bleeding to death was seen around the world and triggered an outcry over the sometimes brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
Her boyfriend Caspian Makan -- who was jailed in Iran following her death but is now reportedly in hiding in an unidentified Middle Eastern city -- told the Observer that Neda was committed to helping overthrow Ahmadinejad.
"Neda was present at the front line of the protests from the very first day," Makan said in comments quoted by the paper.
"She was a natural leader and attracted many (protestors) to her side. I think that is why she was shot.
"The Iranian state and its security officials did not want her, they wanted to extinguish her."
He also recalled her saying: "If I get shot in the heart or arrested, it's not important because we are all responsible for our future."
In another interview, Makan told the BBC that he had been worried about her getting involved in the protest. She apparently told him: "Even if we'd had a child, I'd carry my child to these demos on my back.
"That's when I realised I couldn't prevent her from going... she was only thinking of her goal -- democracy and freedom for Iranians."
Some Iranian hardliners claim Neda's killing was staged to damage Ahmadinejad's government and seek to divert the blame from Islamist vigilantes cracking down on protestors.
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The overlapping rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender immigrants has come up time and time again during the current push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
Whether it was the Senate's proposal dismissing gay couples' concerns to sponsor their binational significant other, or a queer DREAMer left demanding an apology after being told not to speak on immigration at a Human Rights Campaing (HRC) rally outside the Supreme Court, there's been deep pot holes along the road to inclusiveness.
A forum in Garden Grove seeks to answer questions while fostering discussion on a number of related issues.
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A gamble with democracy
Stability or democracy? That is the alarming choice in Cambodia as the results of Sunday's national elections degenerate into confusion.
A frustrated international community clearly wants stability in the region's poorest nation and is willing to accept an imperfect electoral process under 'Cambodian conditions' to get it.
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Prince Norodom Ranariddh are bearing the torch for a far more pure form of democracy in an increasingly desperate bid to stave off five more years in the political wilderness.
Preliminary approval of the polls from the international community and early unofficial results suggesting a swing towards strongman Hun Sen's former communist Cambodian Peoples' Party (CCP) have proved too much for either man to bear.
The combination represents their worst fears - defeat in a credible election that finally puts an official seal on Mr Hun Sen's 18-year stranglehold on power.
While legitimising a leader they see as violent and dictatorial, it could also free up US$40 million (HK$310 million) aid from the United States, Japan, and international agencies such as the World Bank.
A decidedly conciliatory tone from both Mr Rainsy and Prince Ranariddh on polling day was soon forgotten when it appeared the CPP was likely to win. Their concern is such that they have set a highly intriguing gamble in motion.
Long before official counts were announced, they teamed up for the first time in years to cry foul, warning of widespread ballot manipulation and counting irregularities.
'We are not going to be the democratic alibi for Hun Sen,' Mr Rainsy told the Post as he walked away from the prince's rented home in central Phnom Penh.
'There will be demonstrations and upheaval.' Mr Rainsy, never afraid to whip up a crowd, may not be wrong. The pair have threatened to boycott the upcoming session of Cambodia's parliament - a move which could spark chaos.
Mr Hun Sen will need coalition partners to take power. And their refusal to participate could create a situation where no one can legally do that under a constitution that requires control of two-thirds of the Assembly's 122 seats to rule.
'This is far more than the Cambodian constitution can handle . . . they are effectively forcing a situation where no one can legally take power,' one veteran Asian diplomat said during emergency meetings yesterday to try to force a compromise.
'God knows what would happen then. Both Rainsy and the prince have moved far too early. They've angered and insulted the international community and only raised the prospect of Mr Hun Sen ignoring the democratic process to keep power - and if they are not careful, he may actually have some sympathy this time.' At the nub of the situation is the election itself. The weeks and months leading up to it may have been studded with claims of CPP violence, intimidation and control of the independent commission governing the poll. But the day itself was calm and largely clean.
More than 90 per cent of the 5.4 million Cambodian eligible voters turned out for the country's first locally organised poll - a figure which clearly buoyed both domestic and international observers.
'What we have witnessed is a successful exercise in self-determination,' gushed Stephen Solarz, a former US congressman and head of combined Democrat and Republican monitoring efforts.
Mr Solarz, one of Mr Hun Sen's fiercest critics in the wake of the bloody coup that pushed then First Prime Minister Prince Ranariddh from power, went as far as to describe it as a possible 'Miracle on the Mekong'.
Mr Rainsy spits with anger at such remarks, repeating his mantra that international monitoring efforts were 'too little, too late' and such judgments must be withheld until more information is available.
'The international community is merely preparing to wash its hands of Cambodia,' he said. 'They are more interested in stability rather than democracy'.
Certainly the killings and violence that surrounded the campaign over the past two months remain largely unresolved.
The United Nations is investigating some 400 allegations of violence and intimidation. Twenty-eight murders are now under active investigation for political links - whittled down from 40.
Some of the killings were brutal in their execution.
One involved Thong Sophal a Funcinpec party organiser in southeastern Kandal province. He was found with his head smashed, eyes and fingers missing and all the flesh from his legs and feet stripped clean from the upper thigh. Local officials described the death as 'suicide'.
The more hard-boiled Phnom Penh diplomats say there was little hope of the elections being free of violence given Cambodia's bloody past of Khmer Rouge genocide and civil war. They stress it has to be seen as a matter of degree.
Compared to the widespread bloodshed of the 1993 polls - conducted by the UN in a US$2 billion effort to restore democracy to Cambodia - they say this year's ballots have been relatively safe.
As Mr Rainsy and Prince Ranariddh jointly occupy the moral high-ground, they do so after campaign speeches that have done little to boost their international reputations.
Both figures played the race card, stirring up old hatreds of the Vietnamese with racial slurs and warnings that Mr Hun Sen would allow the country to be dominated once again by the evil yuon from across the border.
Prince Ranariddh, who heads the Funcinpec coalition that Mr Rainsy claims was even more corrupt than the CPP when in power, constantly played up his links to the monarchy - a sure vote-winner with the peasants.
The prince is the illegitimate son of King Sihanouk, who has been at pains to stress his neutrality and told Cambodians to vote only according to their 'consciences'.
Today, Mr Hun Sen travels to Siem Reap for private talks with the king. The king is said to be keen to quietly ease his son from politics and has no objections to Mr Hun Sen continuing his rule.
If Mr Rainsy and Prince Ranariddh effectively withdraw themselves from contention, the stability versus democracy question could fall into the hands of the king and his prime minister.
Once again, Mr Hun Sen, would have outwitted his rivals. And this time with the endorsement of his most strident critics in the international community.
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A young doctor saying they are an intern posted this last week.
Why are we communicating so badly?
Authored by James DandoI AM too young to be familiar with fax machines. My parents had one, and I can vaguely remember them making fun of my grandfather's skepticism of this "new" technology. I didn't have to use one. That was until I started working in a hospital.
Now I use a fax machine almost daily, as well as other arcane technologies, such as the pager that has to be carried around at all times.
These rather quaint examples make for fun anecdotes to regale non-medical friends with, but they speak to something more profound: the generally abject quality of the communication tools employed by health care practitioners.
This is especially clear in our handling of medical records. It's ironic, given that our profession takes so much pride in the ability to tell the story in a succinct and a systematic way, that we are so tolerant of platforms that obscure rather than illuminate the important points in a patient's history.
Even within a single hospital network, the archive can be dense, chaotic and generally migraine-inducing. It's not uncommon to find a crucial operation report hidden among a dozen computer-generated data logs or lost at the end of a digital cul-de-sac.
But the real problems start when records are scattered between public and private or across the territorial boundaries of local or state health networks. In this case, chasing the records feels like a fishing expedition, and there are days when the fish just aren't biting.
Here's a typical example. A patient who is cognitively-impaired is admitted with a vague history of a previous admission to another hospital following a fall, and it's thought, reasonably, that retrieving those records may be useful to the current admission.
But on contacting that hospital, which is less than 100 km away, I find that I can't even be told if those records exist, much less their content. The only way to find out is to start blindly faxing request forms out into the wilderness of medical records. That represents a dismal yield on an investment of considerable amounts of time.
These frequent trips down the rabbit hole in the search for records that may not even exist are really morale depleting. I was prepared by medical school for the stress of dealing with people who are sick. I wasn't prepared for the task of cold-calling pathology labs around south-western Sydney on the off-chance of turning up an old blood test.
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The way you handle this as an intern is really simple. Just ring the hospital and ask for the medical records department (or the records clerk after hours) and if not helpful – they should be by the way - get them to ring your hospital switchboard and have them page you. This proves to the remote caller who you are. From then they are really obliged to help you with old records for your patient. Same goes for path labs etc. Note of course denying help with a patient who is impaired is deeply unethical anyway. No way, if you are the responsible doctor, can requesting information to assist the patient be a privacy breach or even near it!
Even better is simply to ring the patient's GP. They are usually more than happy to help and usually the patient or their relative knows who the GP is!!
This all assumes that the patient does not have the relevant details on a sheet of paper (USB stick is a bit optimistic) which should be carried in the wallet of all cognitively impaired patients.
Clearly some 15 years from now, when the myHR is properly populated with information, if ever, then this will be another useful way to go – but of course means you need to be able to establish the patient identity to obtain an IHI and be authorised to access the record. Of course by then most of us might have a digital identity that allows access to local health information held by our GP on line (the UK is moving to this as I type). That would be more reliable than the myHR (which will always be a secondary and often incomplete system).
All in all this article is rather a cry for more responsible information management in the community and care with the travelling patient rather than for a billion dollar + myHR!