Human rights
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Self-immolation of an Iranian asylum seeker in Germany
An Iranian asylum seeker whose asylum application was rejected has turned himself in to the municipality of the small town of Göppingen in southwestern Germany.
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Concerns over rights violations of detained dervishes as trial begins
As the trial of a number of arrested dervishes begins and the charges against a number of female dervishes are being explained, some social media users…
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UN: Gaza may become uninhabitable
It is hard to believe in the reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. The people of Gaza, who have been suffering for years from the consequences of the endless conflict between the two groups…
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Amnesty International: Iran responsible for more than half of all recorded executions in 2017
On Thursday, April 13, Amnesty International released its annual report on the use of the death penalty in 2017…
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Human Rights Watch calls for immediate release of human rights activist Golrokh Iraei
Human Rights Watch called on the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release Golrokh Iraei, a human rights activist imprisoned in a hospital…
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Golrokh Iraei was transferred to the hospital as her hunger strike continued.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraei, a civil rights activist imprisoned in Iran, has been on a hunger strike for 61 days due to…
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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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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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