Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Canada decries rights violations in Iran

AFP: Canada's top diplomat Saturday denounced Iran for imposing draconian death sentences and unfair jail terms, urging Tehran's incoming foreign minister to improve the...
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Iranian sentenced to lose eye and ear over acid attack

The Guardian: In a literal application of the law of an eye for an eye, an Iranian man convicted of blinding another man in...
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Iranian dissident executed in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran/London, Dec. 28 - An Iranian political prisoner, Ali Saremi, was hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on Tuesday on the charge...
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Iranian whipped in public for drinking alcohol

Reuters: An Iranian man was given 80 lashes in public for drinking alcohol, ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday, a punishment aimed at discouraging...
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Iran Human Rights

UN shows ‘deep concern’ over Iran’s rights record

AFP: The UN General Assembly on Tuesday approved a resolution expressing "deep concern" over "recurring" human rights violations in Iran, where authorities have been...
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Iran Human Rights

Jailed Iranian students start hunger strike

Reuters: Two jailed Iranian students have gone on hunger strike, a reformist website said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of such protests...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran filmmaker Panahi gets six years in jail: lawyer

AFP: Celebrated Iranian filmmaker and vocal backer of the opposition movement, Jafar Panahi, has been handed six years in jail and banned from making...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran detains family of imprisoned filmmaker

AP: Iranian authorities on Thursday detained family members of an imprisoned documentary filmmaker after they showed up outside a Tehran prison to inquire about...
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Iran’s Employment Crisis: The Increase in Unemployment Insurance Registrations

The increase in unemployment insurance applicants reflects the chaotic condition of workers following the warmongering policies of the clerical...
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Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

Imprisoned student Amirhossein Moradi, responding to an offer by the Iranian regime’s judiciary to grant him a pardon, declared...
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Record Number of Imprisoned Writers Worldwide. Iran Ranks Second with 53 Jailed Writers

PEN America announced in its latest annual report on the state of freedom of expression worldwide that the number...

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