Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Executions for drug crimes surge in Iran: Amnesty

Reuters: Iran has executed more people for drug-related crimes in 2011 than in the previous two years combined, in "a killing spree of staggering...
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Iran Human Rights

US sanctions 2 Iran military figures

AFP: The United States placed sanctions Tuesday on two top Iranian military figures for their roles in the brutal crackdown on dissenters in the...
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UN rights expert starts probing Iran rights abuses

AFP: A UN expert tasked with investigating alleged human rights abuses in Iran will talk to Iranian activists in France, Germany and Belgium this...
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Iran Human Rights

Record for UN vote on Iran, N. Korea, Myanmar

AFP: Record numbers of countries voted in favor of UN General Assembly resolutions condemning human rights abuses in Iran, North Korea and Myanmar. ...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran seen as evasive, legalistic at UN rights panel

Reuters: Iran avoided the most difficult questions at a long-awaited appearance before the U.N. Human Rights Committee, members said on Thursday, with Iranian officials...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran sentences reformist journalist to six year in prison

AFP: Iran has sentenced a reformist journalist, Abdolreza Tajik, to six year in prison after he was convicted of propaganda against the regime, the...
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Iran Human Rights

UN rights experts criticise Iran over ‘vague’ replies

AFP: UN Human Rights Committee experts on Tuesday criticised Iran's failure to provide sufficient details on the use of the death penalty as well...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran secretly executing hundreds of prisoners: UN

AFP: Iran's authoritarian regime has secretly executed hundreds of prisoners, according to a new UN report detailing growing rights abuses in the Islamic republic....
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Iran’s Car Market Experiences Sharp Surge in Prices Afte War-Induced Stagnation

Media outlets in Iran report that the prices of many domestically produced cars have increased by 3 billion to...
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UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement published on April 29, strongly condemned...
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Iran’s National Currency Has Declined by 120% Over the Past Year

Reports from Iran indicate a sharp surge in the price of the U.S. dollar in the open market in...

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Iranian Doctor Sentenced to Death for Helping Injured Protesters

Ameneh Soleimani, a physician, was arrested solely for saving...
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Iranian Political Prisoner Naser Bakrzadeh’s at Risk of Execution

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