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"Heads Over Heels"

(Iranian.com - July 06, 2011) Kambiz Shabankare's documentary on Iranian refugees in Turkey

 

Journalists in exile 2011: Iran, Cuba drive out critics

(CPJ  -  June 20, 2011) ...Shabankare, who was imprisoned for two years and detained by security agents on several occasions over his 18-year journalism career, decided to return home quietly, figuring the danger would pass. But as dozens of colleagues were arrested and the political climate proved more unforgiving than ever, Shabankare reconsidered...

 

CPJ's exiled journalists survey: Behind the numbers

(CPJ  -  June 20, 2011) ...In a recent interview, Iranian journalist-in-exile Alireza "Kambiz" Shabankare said, "Sometimes you just need someone to listen to you."...

 

67 journalists forced into exile in past year: report

(The Spy Report  -  June 20, 2011) ..."I went to so many embassies to ask for a visa, but they all said no," said Alireza Shabankare, an Iranian writer and photographer who left the country last year after several run-ins with authorities...

 

Iran leads countries forcing journalists into exile

(A Time to Betray  -  June 20, 2011) ...Alireza Shabankare, 37, an Iranian writer, photographer and blogger, decided to go to Turkey after his mother warned him not to return home after reporting in Afghanistan last year...

 

Running to Stand Still: The Long Wait for Iran's Refugee Journalists

(PBS.org  -  23 MAR 2011) ...Kambiz fled, first to Tajikistan for four months and then briefly to India. He'd loved Tajikistan: he worked for a TV station providing training to local journalists, found drinking buddies among the American expats in town. Kambiz stayed until he received word from a friend who worked with the Iranian embassy that intelligence agents had received word that a dissident journalist was in town. Fearing that Iran's outsized influence in Persian-speaking Tajikistan (during a January 2010 visit to Dushanbe, Ahmadinejad had described the two countries as "one soul in two bodies") would result in his deportation back to the Islamic Republic, Kambiz decided it was time to move on...

 

Resolution on Capital Punishment on the occasion of 10 October, World Day Against the Death Penalty

(ICAS - October 22, 2010) The death penalty is premeditated murder by the state. It must be unconditionally abolished worldwide. Abolition of the death penalty and valuing human life are the first steps toward fighting a ‘culture’ of killing in society. The death penalty is the most heinous form of premeditated murder in which a state, on behalf of society, in accordance with a preconceived plan, brutally and legally kills an individual, and announces the date and time of the event beforehand. Committing murder by citizens of a society can never be stopped when the state commits the same crime legally. The death penalty is a large contributor to the overall homicide and crime statistics...

 

7 concorso fotografico international Giuliano Carrara - Italy

(Iranian Photo Agency - May 2008) Iranian Photo Agency participated in the " 7 concorso fotografico international Giuliano Carrara - Italy " by sending 193 photos of 74 Iranian photographers...


SAD ROOZ (Movie Database)

(Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - February 2005) Hundred Days is a movie by Azadeh Reisdana that Kambiz Shabankare is an actor in there...