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Monthly Archives: November 2020

USCIRF Condemns Attack on a Mosque in Burkina Faso

Shabtabnews – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned the recent attack on a mosque in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. “Last week’s attack on a mosque in Burkina Faso is absolutely reprehensible,” said USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin. “An attack on any house of worship is an attack on religious freedom writ large.” Last Friday, an unknown assailant threw a flammable bottle into a …

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Three-Story Graves: Iran Struggles To Cope With Raging Coronavirus Pandemic

RFL/RE – As the coronavirus began its spread around the world early this year, Iran quickly found itself facing the worst outbreak in the Middle East. Iranian officials sluggishly imposed restrictions and different lockdowns to try to stave off the deadly pandemic as it claimed more and more victims. The government was blamed for its slow response, a lack of …

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Iran Arrests Separatist Leader Accused Of Deadly Attack On Military Parade

RFL/RE – Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has confirmed the arrest of a separatist group leader allegedly involved in a deadly attack during a military parade in 2018. In a statement cited by state-run IRNA news agency on November 12, the ministry said Farajollah Cha’ab had been identified and arrested. Cha’ab was described as “the main person in the terrorist attack” in …

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Iran’s Campaign of Terror in Iraqi Kurdistan

iranwire.com – The Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out more assassinations in Iraqi Kurdistan than in any other country or region of the world, with 259 people killed and at least 121 seriously injured in state-sponsored attacks in this territory since 1979. Political assassinations by Iran inside Iraqi Kurdistan began in the early 1990s and peaked from 1993 to …

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The Unity for Navid Campaign and Iran’s Long Record of Silencing its Athletes

iranwire.com –Security forces have cracked down on supporters of the Unity for Navid campaign, which calls for an end to the harassment, jailing, torture and harsh punishment, including death sentences, for athletes. IranWire has been in contact with a source who said that authorities had pressured the families of athletes, coaches and referees who expressed support for the campaign, which was set …

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From Homelessness to Suicide: Aftershocks of the Kermanshah Earthquake

iranwire.com – Three years have passed since a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, killing 600 people and injuring 10,000 more, and devastating countless lives and livelihoods in the process. More than 200 suicides were registered in the province that year: an increase on the year before, and one that some analysts attributed to socio-economic stress brought on …

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Report: 400 Years Imprisonment and 787 Lashes for Iran Rights Defenders

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- New IHR report profiles 53 human rights defenders, who have collectively been sentenced to nearly 400 years of imprisonment and 787 lashes. The situation of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in Iran is more grave today than it has been the last three decades. The Iran Human Rights Defenders Report 2019-2020 provides a brief account on the …

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Iran expects US to return to nuclear deal without conditions

Al-Monitor – President Hassan Rouhani said today that he believes the era of maximum pressure on Iran is over. “There are signs from America to Europe that show the world has understood that maximum pressure will not yield results, and it is coming to an end,” Rouhani said, speaking via videoconference to mark the inauguration of several national projects. The term “maximum pressure” has been …

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Iran passes grim milestone of 40,000 deaths from coronavirus

(AP) — Iran on Thursday passed the grim milestone of 40,000 coronavirus deaths, with the latest 10,000 added in less than a month, as the country struggles to contain its most widespread wave of infection yet. The Iranian health ministry announced 457 new fatalities on Thursday, along with 117,517 new infections, pushing the total case count past 726,000, although officials …

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PANEL EVENT: VICTIMS OF IRAN’S NOVEMBER 2019 BLOODSHED DENIED JUSTICE: PATHWAYS TO ACCOUNTABILITY

Amnesty – To mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly crackdown on nationwide anti-establishment protests in Iran, ARTICLE19, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are hosting an online expert panel on Tuesday 17 November 2020. The event will shed light on the litany of serious human rights violations committed by Iran’s security forces and discuss the international mechanisms urgently needed …

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