Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights

Iran: Lives in the balance: an open appeal to Iran’s judicial authorities

Amnesty International: The case of Leyla Mafi, who faces execution on account of charges including sexual intercourse with blood relatives, giving birth to an...
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Iran Human Rights

2 antique smugglers sentenced to death in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 22 – Two antique smugglers had their death sentences upheld yesterday by an Islamic revolutionary court in the southern town...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran: Rights Groups Shine Spotlight On Capital Punishment In Iran

RFE/RL: Along with China and the United States, Iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world. In the last two decades,...
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Iran Human Rights

UN chides Iran over human rights

BBC: The UN General Assembly has censured Iran for human rights violations, in a relatively close vote. By 71 votes to 54, with 55...
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Iran Human Rights

Norwegian protest to Iran

The Norway Post: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen has condemned the planned execution of the mentally retarded 19 year-old Leila M in Iran. Among...
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Iran Human Rights

U.N. condemns Iranian rights violations

United Press International: The U.N. General Assembly Monday expressed concern at continuing human rights violations in Iran on the reported eve of an execution...
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Iran Human Rights

U.N. denounces Iran abuses

Reuters: The U.N. General Assembly has criticised Iran for public executions, torture, arbitrary sentencing, flogging, stoning and systematic discrimination against women. Sponsored by Canada,...
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Iran Human Rights

Iran: Judiciary Uses Coercion to Cover Up Torture

Human Rights Watch: The Iranian judiciary is using threats of lengthy prison sentences and coerced televised statements in an attempt to cover up its...
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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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Leila Abolhasani, Mother of Two Young Daughters, Sentenced to Death

Leila Abolhasani, a 43-year-old citizen and mother of two...
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Behind The $6 Billion Preferential Currency Allocation Scandal In Iran’s Auto Assembly Industry

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Iranian spy nabbed in Baghdad as Tehran steps up meddling in Iraq

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Sep. 28 - Iraqi security forces...
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