Friday , 29 March 2024

Human rights

Iran Silent on Kurdish Activist’s Execution

VOA – Iran has withheld confirmation of its apparent recent execution of a Kurdish activist, in the latest example of its long-running practice of secretly executing ethnic minority dissidents. Kurdish activist Hedayat Abdollahpour’s brother Farhad told VOA Persian that their father received a call on June 10 from an official who asserted that Hedayat was executed on or around May …

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USCIRF Urges the Administration to Immediately Enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act

Shabtabnews – USCIRF Urges the Administration to Immediately Enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Policy ActWashington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released the following statement urging the Administration to immediately enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which was signed by President Donald Trump yesterday:“Along with Congress, the official communication and policy of this administration has been …

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Iran Authorities Intimidate Journalists To Stop Reporting On Jailed Ecologist

Radiofarda – Conspicuous tweets by two environmental journalists in recent days reveal possible pressures on social media influencers to refrain from public criticism of unfair arrests and trails. The journalists abruptly changing their previous positions came out supporting the verdict against Morad Tahbaz, a jailed Iranian-American ecologist. This has given rise to concerns over pressure on journalists to drop reporting …

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‘Filled With Fear’: An Afghan Account of Traveling to Iran

VOA – Video footage earlier this month of Iranian police with a burning car carrying Afghan refugees has received wide condemnation inside Afghanistan and renewed debate about the plight of Afghans in Iran.  On June 3, a car carrying 13 Afghan migrants was set ablaze in Iran’s central Yazd province, killing three and injuring four. The video went viral on …

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Iran: Man hanged in Public at Firuraq City

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A man was hanged in public in the Iranian northwestern city of Firuraq on Thursday, June 11. This is the first recorded public execution in Iran in 2020. According to Azarbakhish website, on the morning of Thursday, June 11, 2020, a man was executed in public in the Iranian northwestern city of Firuraq, West Azerbaijan. He was …

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World Refugee Day: Watch Nazanin’s Boniadi’s New DocuFilm “Stateless”

CHRI — Last summer, the actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi visited the Northern french cities of Calais and Dunkirk where she met asylum seekers from around the world, including her birth country of Iran, and documented their experiences in her new short film, “Stateless.” “I met a bright and charming eight-year-old Iranian boy, Arvin, who is in the docufilm with his …

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Iran — First Call for Signatures on Letter to Secretary Pompeo in Support of Religious Prisoners of Conscience

Shabtabnews – In a open letter The International Religious Freedom requests signatures on a letter addressed to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to support the religious prisoners of conscience in Iran. The full text of the letter and the means of signing the letter can be seen below: Dear IRF Roundtable Participants,Please see below from Baha’is of the United States …

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Human Rights Organizations Warn UN Over Widespread Human Violations In Iran

Radiofarda – Thirty-nine Iranian and international human rights organizations have called for the term extension of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights on Iran, voicing deep concern about serious violations in the country. In a joint letter to the UN Human Rights Council, the organizations accused Iran of “widespread and systematic violations of a large array of human rights,” …

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Iranian Christian Activist Hailed by Trump Says Iran Detaining 15 Other Christians

VOA – An Iranian Christian rights activist whose 46-day detention earlier this year drew words of concern from U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has detained 15 other Christians as part of its long-running repression of the religious minority in the Islamic republic. Mary Mohammadi, a Tehran-based Christian convert in her early 20s, made the comments to VOA Persian in …

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Iran: Planned execution of man for rape must be stopped

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the planned execution of a man sentenced to death after being convicted for the rape of a child, Amnesty International said today. Farhad Salehi Jabehdar, 29, is scheduled to be executed in the Central Prison of Karaj in Alborz province this Saturday (20 June). According to a court document obtained by Amnesty …

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