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Iran: Shocking statements by senior official highlight impunity for 1988 prison massacres

Tue 30 Jul 2019

Recent statements by Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, advisor to Iran’s head of the judiciary and a former minister of justice, defending the mass extrajudicial executions of 1988 provide shocking confirmation of the authorities’ wilful flouting of international human rights law both at the time and now and a stark reminder of the sense of impunity that senior officials linked to the killings enjoy, Amnesty International said today.

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Trump's Worst Nightmare? Meet Iran's Deadly Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Mark Episkopos

Thu 25 Jul 2019

The Quds Force has been a constant thorn in the side of American interests in the Middle East, providing military aid and direct combat support to anti-US militants in such hotspots as Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Iran: Cruel campaign to extract propaganda ‘confessions’ from protesters against compulsory veiling

Thu 18 Jul 2019

Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions” from women’s rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country’s discriminatory forced veiling (hijab) laws, said Amnesty International.

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A pre-election strike on Iran? -Tabish Khair

Fri 12 Jul 2019

Is Iran being set up for a ‘limited scale conflict’ just before the U.S. presidential election? This is a suspicion that might be far from the minds of North and West European leaders, hailing from countries that, since World War II, have been sceptical of war, especially in their own neighbourhoods. But Iran is not really in their neighbourhood. Will countries like Germany, France or Brexiting-U.K. have the conviction or coherence to stand up for Iran, which has been pushed into a corner by the one-sided withdrawal of Donald Trump’s U.S. from the international nuclear deal brokered under former U.S. President Barack Obama? It remains one of the great ironies of politics today that Mr. Trump is such good friends with North Korea, which seems to have no intention of abandoning its nuclear weapons, and so belligerent towards Iran, which did sign an international nuclear deal!

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Iran: Urgent medical treatment needed for detainees with life-threatening conditions – UN experts

Wed 10 Jul 2019

UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls.

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Women Face Weeks of Interrogation, Poor Prison Conditions

Mon 01 Jul 2019

The Iranian judiciary should release three women labor activists and a journalist who are still in jail two months after they were detained following a May Day demonstration in Tehran protesting the difficult economic condition workers face, Human Rights Watch said today. The four detainees appear to be detained solely because of their participation in the peaceful assembly.

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Activists Face Fresh Trumped-up Charges in New Trial

Thu 20 Jun 2019

Civil society activists Atena Daemi and Golrakh Ebrahimi Iraee have been charged with “propaganda against the regime” and “insulting the Supreme Leader,” adding to previous charges against them. Although human rights organizations and activists regard the new charges against the activists as harsh, the trial differed from previous hearings in that lawyers for the defendants were able to review their clients’ files ahead of the session.

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Iran Among the Ruins - Vali Nasr

Thu 20 Jun 2019

Over the last seven years, social upheavals and civil wars have torn apart the political order that had defined the Middle East ever since World War I. Once solid autocracies have fallen by the wayside, their state institutions battered and broken, and their national borders compromised. Syria and Yemen have descended into bloody civil wars worsened by foreign military interventions.

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Interview With Nazanin Boniadi: “Silence is Not an Option”

Wed 19 Jun 2019

As a girl visiting her birth country of Iran, British actress Nazanin Boniadi got a taste of the severely restricted rights women there live with on a daily basis. That experience inspired her to get educated about women’s and human rights issues in the country, and to one day work to improve them.

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More than 1 million people join global campaign to demand Iranian government release Nasrin Sotoudeh

Sun 16 Jun 2019

More than a million people in more than 200 countries and territories across the globe have come together to express their outrage at the sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to 38 years and six months in prison and 148 lashes after two grossly unfair trials, Amnesty International announced today, as signatures demanding her release were handed in to Iranian embassies around the world.

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Iran: Shocking statements by senior official highlight impunity for 1988 prison massacres

Trump's Worst Nightmare? Meet Iran's Deadly Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Mark Episkopos

Iran: Cruel campaign to extract propaganda ‘confessions’ from protesters against compulsory veiling

A pre-election strike on Iran? -Tabish Khair

Iran: Urgent medical treatment needed for detainees with life-threatening conditions – UN experts

Women Face Weeks of Interrogation, Poor Prison Conditions

Activists Face Fresh Trumped-up Charges in New Trial

Iran Among the Ruins - Vali Nasr

Interview With Nazanin Boniadi: “Silence is Not an Option”

More than 1 million people join global campaign to demand Iranian government release Nasrin Sotoudeh

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