Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

UN rights office slams Iran for juvenile execution

AP: A spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the Geneva-based agency was "deeply dismayed" about the hanging of ...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran tries US pastor on national security charges: lawyer

AFP: An Iranian-American Christian pastor charged with plotting against state security appeared in a Tehran court on Monday, but will be released...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran resorts to hangings in public to cut crime

New York Times: An eerie silence filled the air as a crowd of around 300 gathered Sunday just before sunrise in a Tehran...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran hangs two in public for machete attack: report

AFP: Iran hanged two men in public, after a video posted on YouTube last month showed them assaulting a man in a Tehran...
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Iran executes alleged juvenile offender

Amnesty International: The execution in Iran this week of a 21-year-old man for a crime he allegedly committed while apparently still a juvenile...
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Iran Human Rights

US Christian faces death in Iran trial: family

AFP: A Tehran court will next week put on trial an Iranian American Christian on charges that could carry the death penalty, his...
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Iran Human Rights

Watchdog group: Iran to jail protest leader

AP: A media watchdog group says the founder of an Iranian protest group led by mothers has been ordered to begin a six-month...
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Iran Human Rights

Tribunal finds Iran guilty of torture and murder of political prisoners

Maclean’s: For decades, relatives of victims and survivors of Iran’s bloody decade felt silenced and forgotten, cut off from any means of seeking...
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Targeted Repression of Iranian Women, From Mass Arrests to Death Sentences

Women in Iran have faced a wave of widespread arrests and targeted repression; a wave that indicates a planned...
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Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar’s Final Letter Offers a Personal Account from Iran’s Death Row

Iran’s regime tries to shut the voice of dissidents through brutal executions. But in the case of Ali Akbar...
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Iranian Political Prisoner Mohammad Abbasi Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

In the early hours of Wednesday, May 13, the judiciary of the Iranian regime executed Mohammad Abbasi, a 55-year-old...

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