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Monthly Archives: July 2018

Iran: Young man flogged 80 times for drinking alcohol as a child

Amnesty – The public flogging on Tuesday in Iran of a young man convicted of consuming alcohol when he was just 14 or 15 years old over a decade ago highlights the inhumanity of a justice system that legalizes brutality, said Amnesty International today. “The circumstances of this case are absolutely shocking, representing another horrific example of the Iranian authorities’ …

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Detained Iranian Azeri Rights Activists Badly Injured During Interrogations

CHRI – Several ethnic rights activists detained at an annual celebration at Babak Fort in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province required medical attention after being violently interrogated. “All of the 20 people so far have been released from the [Intelligence Ministry’s] detention center in Kaleibar have signs of physical abuse and broken bones,” an Azeri rights advocate told the Center for …

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Free Iran’s Political Prisoners

CHRI – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has claimed that “no one under the Islamic Republic is pursued…for being opposed to the government” but that’s not true. In this video produced by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), we consider the cases of some of the Iranians who have gone to prison for their beliefs. Find more information …

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Why only Khamenei can break deadlock over global watchdog blacklist

Al-Monitor – At its recent plenary meeting, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global group working against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, decided against removing Iran from its blacklist while continuing to waive its countermeasures until October. However, developments following the June 29 meeting indicate a serious likelihood that Tehran will approve legislation pertaining to its efforts to permanently exit the blacklist.

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Iran supreme leader’s top aide in Moscow to ‘deliver message’

Al-Monitor – “A very important visit” — that’s how Iran’s Foreign Ministry described Ali Akbar Velayati’s trip to Russia, where Velayati, the supreme leader’s foreign policy adviser, was expected to deliver messages from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani to the Russian president.

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Tehran MP Accuses His Peers Of Receiving Bribes

Radiofarda – Tehran’s outspoken representative to parliament, Mahmoud Sadeghi has accused his colleagues of receiving bribes to shelve a parliamentary motion aimed at investigating law violations at the capital city’s municipality.

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