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…
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2020/21: THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S HUMAN RIGHTS
by editorfzby editorfzAmnesty 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…
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URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF KURDISH ACITVISTS AND OTHERS ARTBITRARILY DETAINED IN IRAN
by editorfzby editorfzFebruary 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…
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UN expert calls for “clear, unambiguous standards” to protect aircraft over conflict zones
by editorfzby editorfzIran 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…
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Iran: Internet deliberately shut down during November 2019 killings – new investigation
by editorfzby editorfzAmnesty 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…
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UN human rights experts call release of Iranian human rights defender a hopeful sign
by editorfzby editorfzGENEVA (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…
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Iran: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh must be freed for treatment, say UN experts
by editorfzby editorfzGENEVA (25 September 2020) – UN independent experts expressed alarm at human rights lawyer and woman human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh’s return to Evin Prison in Iran this week despite…
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Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – Amnesty International new report
by editorfzby editorfzAmnesty International, 2 September 2020, 00:00 UTC Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human…
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Iran: Two Kurds executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression
by editorfzby editorfzAmnesty International, 15 July 2020, 13:42 UTC There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty…
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Leila Alikarami Jun 22, 2020 On the night of June 15, Reyhaneh Ameri, a 22-year-old Iranian woman living with her parents in the Kerman province of south-central Iran, came home late, enraging her father.…