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The Iranian government should immediately lift foreign travel bans used to prevent human rights activists and journalists from attending international forums, Human Rights Watch said today. In recent months, Iranian security forces have repeatedly confiscated passports of activists as they prepared to leave for international conferences. In some cases, the authorities detained and interrogated activists upon their return to Iran.
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Following Tehran's recent Holocaust denial conference, Arab columnists condemned the conference's organizers and participants, calling them hate-mongers who spreadpropaganda and "criminals, enemies of freedom, and distorters of historical fact." The columnists challenged the claim that the conference was an academic research symposium, arguing that, from a moral point of view, it reflected a lack of human and cultural sensitivity, and that it could lead to conflict around the world.
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 On 29 January 2007, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) will organize the second annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, with a ceremony from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters. Madame Simone Veil, President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and a survivor of the Holocaust, will deliver the keynote address.
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approach the second annual Holocaust commemoration day at the United
Nations, it is vital for the leadership to speak out forcefully against
the Holocaust denial and anti-Jewish incitement that is spreading in
the Muslim world thanks in good measure to the Iranian regime.
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A one-day conference focusing on the Iranian threat will be held this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The conference, entitled: "In the Eye of the Storm: Iran in Global Perspectives", is being run in cooperation with the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and The Israel Project.
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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has launched a campaign to protest the Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran not as a "conference of scholars and exercise in freedom of speech" as portrayed by Iranian officials, but as an "in-gathering of hate-mongers and extremists" to delegitimize the state of Israel and call for its destruction in much the way Nazi Germany began its efforts to begin the Holocaust. It has launched a petition where it hopes to gather 100,000 signatures of scholars, students and citizens of good will to urge the United Nations and governments to impose sanctions against Iran for such efforts.
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International symposium of legal and diplomatic experts call on the United Nations to bring President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to justice for incitement to genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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