Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Iran rejects State Dept.’s Religious Freedom Report

UPI: Iran has fired back at the U.S. for its characterization of Iran in the State Department's newly released 'International Religious Freedom Report for 2013'...
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US concerned by Iranian arrests of journalists

AP: The top U.S. nuclear negotiator says she is concerned by reports Iran has arrested four journalists, including three Americans. Wendy Sherman says Tehran should...
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Iranian author, poet sentenced to death for human rights work

Clarion Project: Arzhang Davoodi, an Iranian human rights activist has been sentenced to death by the regime after 11 years imprisonment. Neither he, nor his lawyer...
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Iran confirms it is holding 4 journalists

AP: Iran confirmed on Friday that it has detained four journalists, including a reporter for The Washington Post and two freelance photographers, but did...
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Christian sentenced by Iranian judge to have his lips burnt with a cigarette

Daily Mail: An Iranian judge sentenced a Christian man to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in the Muslim...
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A mother asks Obama: ‘please remember my Amir’

New York Times: The mother of Amir Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent imprisoned in Tehran for nearly three years, has written to President Obama,...
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Iranian court sentences Facebook activists to jail

AP: An Iranian court handed jail sentences of eight to 21 years to eight Facebook page administrators, the official IRNA news agency reported on...
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 Iran: 411 executions in the first half of 2014

Death Penalty News: At least 411 prisoners have been executed in Iran from the beginning of January 2014 to the end of June of the...
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Iran’s Statistics Center reports 115% food inflation

A new report by the Statistical Center of Iran shows that food inflation in March and April this year...
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The Rising Cost of Food in Iran; Hidden Pressure on Large Families

The state-run magazine Niniban published a report on April 29 regarding rising food prices. The report stated: “This is...
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Four Decades of Bitter Narratives: May Day as a Day of Wrath, Not Celebration, for Iran’s Workers

Does International Workers’ Day represent a celebration of dignity and status for Iran’s labor force? Do they gather in...

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