Human rights
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Review of human rights in Iran and Saudi Arabia; a meeting with the presence of Ahmad Shaheed
Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, has spoken out about human rights issues related to…
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Prisoner teacher Rasoul Badaghi released, Baghani goes into exile, Abdi and Beheshti limp on hunger strike
Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar, lawyer for imprisoned teacher Rasoul Badaghi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the activist…
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Letter from 230 journalists to Rouhani: Address the situation of detained journalists
Coinciding with World Press Freedom Day, 230 journalists sent an open letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, calling for an investigation into…
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Atena Farghadani released from prison
Atena Farghdani, an Iranian cartoonist who was arrested in connection with a cartoon protesting a parliamentary bill that would restrict the right to birth control and…
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Al-Jubeir: Assad regime committed war crimes in Aleppo
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, in a speech on Sunday, May 1, accused the Assad regime of committing war crimes against the people…
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Six former MPs' letter to Khamenei asking for release from detention or trial
Six former members of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly have written a letter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, asking him to...
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A letter signed by 16,000 political and civil activists calling for the release of Omid Kokabi
A large group of Iranian political and civil activists, artists, and journalists have written a letter to Ban Ki-moon, urging "all...
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Heavy sentences of five to ten years in prison for 4 journalists in an interview with defense lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei
After months of waiting and no news about the fate of the journalists' legal case, which was filed in November of last year following the announcement of the case...
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