Iran Focus
London, 3 October – A Romanian human rights organization has insisted that the United Nations must investigate the 1988 Iranian massacre of political prisoners in.
Şanse Egale Valoare Autoritate (SEVA) issued a statement on September 28, condemning the massacre of some 30,000 political prisoners, mainly members of the opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI or MEK).
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London, 3 October – The Iranian Regime has yet again used bogus charges of national security to arrest and imprison Iranian citizens who dare to protest against the Regime. It is a tactic, most commonly used by the Iranian Regime to harass and intimidate its citizens into silence.
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London, 3 October – The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into effect on April 14, 2014, is a human rights treaty, setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. It defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under national legislation.
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London, 1 October – On Thursday, September 29, The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)reported on several rallies, including retired teachers,housing applicants and petrochemical workers.
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London, 1 October – In his September 29 article for the Wall Street Journal, Yaroslav Trofimov writes that, “From the point of view of Sunni Arab regimes anxious about Iran’s regional ambitions, Islamic State—as repellent as it is—provides a silver lining. The extremist group’s firewall blocks territorial contiguity between Iran and its Arab proxies in Syria and Lebanon.”
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London, 1 October –Thursday morning, September 29, another woman was hanged. The number of women executed under the regime of President Rouhani has now risen to 71.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Women’s Committee reports that Molouk Noori was executed along with seven other prisoners in the Central Prison of Orumiyeh (northwestern Iran). She had been held in the women’s ward of Orumiyeh Prison.
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London, 1 October – In his article for Al Arabiya, on Friday, September 30, Masoud Alzahid writes about a theme park, now open for its second year in Iran’s city of Mashhad.
Billed as the “park of the revolution’s children,” it is a place where children are trained to shoot virtual fixed and moving targets that carry the flags of countries viewed as Iran’s enemies, including the United States and Israel.
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London, 29 Sep – Amnesty International have criticized the Iranian Regime’s decision to jail a critically ill human rights advocate.
Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years in prison in May and this was upheld upon appeal.
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London, 29 Sep – Reports have surfaced that conditions in a Southern Iranian prison are failing to meet even basic sanitary requirements.
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London, 29 Sep – Iranian political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, is being put under increased pressure by the Iranian authorities according to recently released reports.
Akbari Monfared, who is held in the women’s ward in Evin Prison, was transferred to Ward 209 for interrogation in late September.
