Iran Human Rights

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 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 Human Rights

Prominent Iranian journalist ‘jailed for 16 months’

AFP: Iran has sentenced a prominent reformist journalist to 16 months in jail on charges of insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and undermining the Islamic...
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Woman in stoning sentence ‘confesses’

Scotland on Sunday: An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed on state television to helping a man kill her husband....
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Iran Human Rights

Iran reformist arrested, students held

Reuters: A prominent Iranian reformist was arrested on Thursday and five students were reported detained following anti-government protests, in the latest moves against opponents...
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Iran Human Rights

Editor of Iranian pro-reform daily arrested-website

Reuters: The editor of Iran's leading pro-reform newspaper, Sharq, and two senior journalists have been arrested a few months after the daily reappeared following...
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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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Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

Punitive transfer of death-row political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh to...
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Iran’s ‘No To Execution Tuesdays’ Campaign Marks 118th Week

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