Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Iran policeman gets 3 years over death of blogger

AP: ISNA quoted Giti Pourfazel, a lawyer hired by Beheshti's mother, as saying the sentence was too light considering the nature of the crime. "While journalists...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran: New wave of attacks against journalists as repression escalates

Live News: The wave of repression which intensified after the disputed presidential election in 2009 has reached new highs over the past few months. The...
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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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Iran Human Rights

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 Human Rights

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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Iran Human Rights

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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Italian Parliament Conference Condemns Executions in Iran, Voices Support for NCRI

Italian lawmakers and human rights advocates gathered at the Italian Parliament on May 21 for a conference with Maryam...
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The Collapse of Investment in Iran, the Shutdown of Production, the Downward Spiral of Life

The collapse of investment in Iran means the halt of production, widespread unemployment, capital flight, the destruction of job...
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Inflation, Economic Crisis, and the Silent Collapse of Iran’s Middle Class

The state-run Khabar Fori website wrote on May 22 that the phenomenon of “poor billionaires” has become one of...

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