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Iran executes 29 convicts a day after protester’s hanging: Human Rights group

August 8, 2024 admin

Human rights groups including US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) and Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) also confirmed the execution of at least two dozen people in Karaj. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran on Wednesday (August 7, 2024) hanged at least 29 convicts in a single day, including 26 in a…

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Iran condemns UN experts report on 2022 protests

March 10, 2024 admin

File picture of a protestor holding a poster with a picture of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. | Photo Credit: AFP Tehran on March 10 strongly condemned a UN report on the Islamic republic’s response to mass protests in 2022, denouncing Western countries’ “Iranophobia”. The report was built on “baseless claims” and “false and biased information,…

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Change in Iran ‘irreversible’, says 2023 Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi

October 6, 2023 admin

Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters Rights campaigner and 2023 Nobel Peace laureateNarges Mohammadi said in a September interview with AFP that she retained hope for change in Iran, despite having no prospect of…

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Iran MPs vote to toughen penalties for women who breach dress code

September 20, 2023 admin

Supporters of women’s rights in Iran raise signs with Mahsa Amini’s picture on the anniversary of her death during a protest outside the White House, in Washington, U.S., on September 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranian women who flout the strict Islamic dress code mandating head coverings and modest clothing would face up to…

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Protests Continue In Iran A Day After Mahsa Amini’s Death Anniversary

September 17, 2023 admin

Joe Biden in a statement on Friday said Amini “inspired a historic movement” Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The death on September 16 last year…

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Iran’s security forces briefly detain Mahsa Amini’s father a year after her death

September 16, 2023 admin

People hold a placard with pictures of, as Iranian call them, martyrs, during a rally of Iranian diaspora in Europe, on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, which prompted protests across their country, in Brussels, Belgium on September 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranian security forces briefly detained…

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