Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Iran steps up pace of executions as it courts West

Fox News: At a time when the West would like to think its negotiating partner is adopting a new, softer tone, Iran’s executions have only...
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Iran: UN rights experts appeal for urgent medical care for detained political prisoners

UN News Centre: A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced alarm at the denial of medical care to two political prisoners...
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Report: Iran summons Greek envoy over rights vote

AP: An Iranian news agency is reporting that the country's foreign ministry has summoned the Greek ambassador in protest of a human rights resolution...
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Christian prisoner in Iran protests harsh treatment with hunger strike

Morning Star News: A convert from Islam in Iran sentenced to serve almost four years in prison for Christian activities has gone on a hunger...
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U.N. Extends term of human rights monitor, angering Iran

New York Times: The Iran government’s effort to portray a kinder and gentler image was frustrated on Friday by the United Nations Human Rights Council,...
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Report: Global executions up 15 percent in 2013

AP: According to Amnesty International the number of officially acknowledged executions in Iran in 2013 was at least 369, but the rights group said "credible sources"...
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Israel: 8 Jews killed leaving Iran in the 1990s

AP: Israel's Mossad intelligence agency says eight Iranian Jews who disappeared while trying to leave the Islamic Republic in the 1990s were captured and...
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Six powers must heed warnings of new UN reports on Iran rights violations

UN Watch: As the EU's Catherine Ashton concluded what she called "substantive and useful" nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, world powers need to pay...
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