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US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approves Iran sanctions bill for human rights violations
The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a bill to sanction the Islamic Republic of Iran for human rights violations. The bill…
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Human Rights Defenders: End the Harassment of Families of Those Killed in Iranian Prisons
Four human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have issued a joint statement calling on Iranian authorities…
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"80 percent of the population lives below the poverty line"
Despite Iran's 4.4% economic growth, a member of the parliament's economic commission said that 80% of the population lives below the poverty line...
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Hamid Baghaei arrested to serve 15-year sentence
Hamid Baghaei, Vice President of Iran during the Ahmadinejad era, following the finality of the court verdict and in order to serve…
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Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist and cosmologist, dies
Stephen William Hawking, a prominent British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, author of a number of best-selling theoretical books and treatises, who at the same time…
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Seven years of war, 511,000 dead in Syria
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that more than half a million people have been killed in the Syrian civil war…
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BBC: UN calls on Iran to end harassment of Persian language staff
The Telegraph newspaper, citing Agence France-Presse, published a report on the BBC's request to the United Nations...
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68 years in prison for 11 people in Mashhad "on charges of setting fire to mosques and public property"
The Deputy Prosecutor of Mashhad announced that 11 members of the "Restart" group have been sentenced to a total of 68 years in prison, including…
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