Human rights
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The highest execution rate in the past 25 years: 82% of executions in the region took place in Iran
According to FCNN, at this press conference, Amnesty International's media officer noted that "the fight against the death penalty...
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"Complete ignorance" of the situation created by Chitsaz, the imprisoned journalist
According to FCNN, Afarin Chitsaz, a journalist who was arrested in November 2015 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization, has been held for five months and…
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Mohammad Javad Larijani: Ahmad Shahid's report is a fake
The Secretary of the Human Rights Headquarters of the Iranian Judiciary described the recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur as “biased, watery, and unassessable.”
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Ahmad Shaheed: The human rights situation has not changed under the Rouhani government
The reports of Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, have been a source of concern for the Islamic Republic's judicial system for many years...
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Iran condemned for human rights violations at the UN
The United Nations General Assembly condemned Iran and North Korea for human rights violations in two separate resolutions. In…
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Human rights experts: Iran must end harassment of journalists
UN human rights experts and investigators called on the Islamic Republic to end the arrest, intimidation, and prosecution of journalists and activists…
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US once again accuses Iran of suppressing "religious freedoms"
On Wednesday, October 12, the US State Department published its annual report on the state of religious freedom in the world…
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Human Rights Council Commissioner criticizes death sentences in Iran
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, called on Iran to improve the situation at the 30th session of the Council...
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