Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Rape, torture and lies

The Globe and Mail: Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten, tortured and raped while in Iranian custody in 2003, according to an emergency-room...
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Iran Human Rights

Pettigrew targets Iran rights record

Toronto Star: Canada's foreign affairs minister will today demand that Iran take action to improve its record on human rights. "The human rights violations...
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Imprisoned Iranian Pastor may Face Death Penalty

Christian Today: A military court in Iran has sentenced Christian pastor Hamid Pourmand to jail for three years and has ordered his immediate transfer...
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Iran: Dissident Wins Award for Besieged Writers

Human Rights Watch: The Iranian author Taqi Rahmani, who has spent a total of 17 years in prison, was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant for...
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A journalist banned from working for two years, a daily suspended and nine journalists summoned

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemned government hounding of the press after an independent journalist was given a six-month suspended sentence, a daily...
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Iran Human Rights

Iranian journalist banned from work

AFP: An Iranian journalist has been banned from working for two years and given a six months suspended jail term over a magazine article,...
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Iran Human Rights

U.S. issues damning human rights report on Iran

Iran Focus: Washington, Feb. 28 – The United States issued a damning report today on Iran's human rights violations as part of its 2004...
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Iran Human Rights

Father and son sentenced to death in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 27 – A middle-aged man and his teenage son are facing imminent execution after Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death...
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Iran’s Regime Rejects Retrial Request by Protester Sentenced to Death

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported the continued detention and interrogation of opponents of Iran's regime,...
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Corruption in Iran’s Ports Reaches the Regime’s Parliament

The corruption case in Iran’s ports has once again become one of the controversial issues in the regime’s parliament....
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Heavy Collapse in Iranian Workers’ Purchasing Power Over the Past 10 Years

In recent years, and particularly in the months following the recent war, workers’ “real wages” in Iran have experienced...

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Sharp Decline in the Value of the Iranian Rial Against the U.S. Dollar

The decline in the value of the rial in...
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‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Marks 136th Week in 62 Prisons Across Iran

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