Tag: Iran
RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years —...
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie
The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the final piece in...
‘Mental torture’ – protesters seek freedom for detained Iran refugee
By Lydia Lewis and Christina Persico
As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the freedom of a Nauru refugee, the man...
Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the Night march
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji police have apologised for “miscommunication” that led to an incident before the Reclaim the Night march last night that almost led...
‘New Zealand, get me off this island,’ pleads 9-year Iran refugee on Nauru
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A second group of refugees detained in offshore Australian detention camps have arrived in New Zealand.
Four people touched down...
Iran’s great research adventurers – a talk with Issa Omidvar
By David Robie
They have been dubbed the “Persian Indiana Joneses”. Their adventures are fabled and hair-raising, as shown by a Jivaro shrunken human head...