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Rudaw English, April 4 SARDASHT, Iran — Maref Ismail Pur was due to be married in the autumn of 1992. At just 24 years old, he was planning ahead – herding sheep in the village of Kollase to save money for the celebrations later that year. It wasn’t until one evening that October that his dreams […]
Apr 27, 2021
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Kurdish shepherd still suffers three decades after landmine… Rudaw English, April 4 SARDASHT, Iran — Maref Ismail Pur was due to be married in the autumn of 1992. At just 24 years old, he was planning ahead – herding sheep in the village of Kollase to save money for the celebrations later that year. It wasn’t until one evening that October that his dreams... -
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2020/21: THE STATE OF THE… Amnesty International, 7 April 2021 The Amnesty International Report 2020/21 documents the human rights situation in 149 countries in 2020, as well as providing global and regional analysis. It presents Amnesty lnternational’s concerns and calls for action to governments and others. During 2020, the world was rocked by COVID-19. The pandemic and measures taken to... -
URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF… February 3, 2021 We, the undersigned 36 civil society and human rights organizations, call for the urgent attention of the international community to an ongoing wave of arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, and enforced disappearances by the Iranian authorities, targeting scores of people from Iran’s disadvantaged Kurdish minority in the provinces of Alborz, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Tehran,... -
UN expert calls for “clear, unambiguous standards” to… Iran missile strike against Ukraine airliner 8 January 2020 GENEVA (7 January 2021) – On the occasion of the first-year anniversary of the strike against Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight PS752, which killed all 176 persons on board, a UN human rights expert has called for urgent measures to protect civilian aircraft flying in conflict... -
Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019… Amnesty International 16 November 2020, 00:01 UTC The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale of unlawful killings by security forces, Amnesty International said today. On the anniversary of the deadliest day of the protests, Amnesty International is launching a new microsite, A web of... -
UN human rights experts call release of Iranian… GENEVA (14 October 2020) – Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the release of long-imprisoned Iranian woman human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, after an Iranian court made use of a new law to reduce her sentence. “We are encouraged that the decision of the Iranian judiciary has led to Ms. Mohammadi’s release after so many...
