Friday , 29 March 2024

Human rights

Iran Frees Australian Travel-Bloggers Accused Of Spying

rferl.org – Two travel-blogging Australians detained in Iran on spying allegations have been released by Tehran and all charges have been dropped, the Australian government says. Mark Firkin and Jolie King, who were arrested in July, have been freed following “very sensitive negotiations” with Tehran, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in Canberra early on October 5. She added that they …

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Iran Dismisses French Concern About Detained Dual-National

Radiofarda – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed on Friday, October 4, French remarks about a Franco-Iranian dual national, Fariba Adelkhah, as a blatant “interference” in the Islamic Republic’s internal affairs. France’s foreign ministry on Thursday, October 3, officially demanded Iran release the French-Iranian dual national. Ms. Adelkhah, 60, is a France-educated anthropologist who has been researching director at …

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Women In Iran Allowed To Buy Tickets For Upcoming Football Match

Radiofarda -In a matter of hours women in Tehran bought 3.500 tickets to watch the upcoming soccer match between their national team and Cambodia, after pressures by FIFA, the world governing body of football. For four decades Iran’s clerical rulers have not allowed women to enter stadiums and watch men’s sports competitions, especially football. But in the last few weeks, …

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Iranian authorities execute six prisoners, including one in public

Iranian authorities executed four prisoners on Wednesday, October 2, at Raja’i Shahr Prison in the city of Karaj, near the capital, Tehran. Two of the victimes identified as Hossein Roshan and Mohsen Kounani were sentenced to death on charges related to moharebeh (“enmity against God”), while Mohammad Reza Ghanbari and Hamid Sheikhi were hanged on murder charges. As a consequence …

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Hundreds including children infected with HIV in a single Iranian village

Iran-HRM – At least 300 people, including children, are believed to have been infected with HIV in southwest province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari by health authorities using contaminated syringe, reports indicate. People in the village of Chenar Mahmoud in Lordegan, have pointed to medical negligence across the local health care system as the cause of the outbreak. According to locals, …

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Mother of Slain Son to Serve One Year in Prison for Seeking Justice

CHRI – Appeals Court Upholds Sentence against Shahnaz Akmali Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a protester who was killed in a pro-democracy rally, must serve a year in prison, an Appeals Court in Iran has decided, for her attempts to seek justice for her son. “My mother’s sentence was upheld by the Appeals Court while my brother’s murder case is gathering …

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British-Iranian Mother Sends Letter From Iran’s Notorious Prison

Radiofarda – In a letter from Tehran’s Evin prison, Iranian-British mother, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has accused the Islamic of Iran of putting her “on auction” for its “political ends and demands.” The letter, widely circulated on Wednesday, October 2, on social media, reflects the despair of the 40-year-old mother of one who has been behind bars since April 3, 2016. Zaghari-Ratcliffe …

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Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – September 2019

Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – September 2019 Introduction An Iranian female football fan died a week after setting herself on fire outside a courtroom, after learning she may face six months in prison for trying to enter a stadium, the state media reported in early September. Sahar Khodayari, 29, died at a hospital in Tehran in early September. …

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Iranian political prisoner couple denied visit each other

Iran-HRM – Iran authorities hve banned Iranian political prisoner couple Fatemeh Mossanna and Hassan Sadeghi from visiting each other in prison. The ban was ordered because Hassan refused to wear prisoner clothes and shackles for the transfer. The ban was ordered because Mr. Sadeghi did not accept to wear the prisoners’ garb and be transferred with shackles and handcuffs. The …

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Iran security forces violently attack landfill protesters

Iran-HRM – The State Security Force attacked and detained villagers in the Kordmir Village of Chardangeh, protesting a 14 year old landfill in the northern village of Chahardangeh. Residents of the village located in the city of Sari, Mazandaran Province were violently beaten and detained during Tuesday’s Chahardangeh landfill protests. Local sources said that security forces used tear gas to …

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