Iran-HRM -A seven-year-old girl was crushed to death after a unstable school roof collapsed, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on October 8.
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Iranian Diplomat Extradited To Belgium To Face Charges In Bomb-Plot Case
RFL/RE – An Iranian diplomat who is the suspected mastermind of an attack that allegedly was planned on Iranians living in exile in France has been extradited from Germany to Belgium, security officials said.
Read More »Nikki Haley Leaves The UN: What To Know And What Comes Next
RFL/RE — U.S. President Donald Trump caught Washington, and a good portion of the U.S. political world, off guard when he made the unexpected announcement that Nikki Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, was leaving her post.
Read More »Turkey’s Revolution Looks like Iran’s – but in Slow Motion
gatestoneinstitute – The SAVAK’s infamous Evin prison, which once held as many as 5,000 of the Shah’s political enemies, soon held over 15,000 of Khomeini’s.
Read More »Governments must put an end to death penalty cruelty and take steps towards full abolition
Amnesty – Prisoners under sentence of death must be treated with humanity and dignity and held in conditions that meet international human rights law and standards, said Amnesty International on World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October).
Read More »Economic Frustrations Compel Merchants to Strike Nationwide
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Over the course of the past few months, a 60-plus percentage drop in the value of the Iranian rial (toman) has plunged the residents of several cities into financial crisis. Across the country on Monday, October 8th, merchants fed up with recession, inflation, and steadily climbing prices shuttered up their shops and went on strike.
Read More »World Day 2018: Death penalty; an inhumane punishment for death row prisoners, their families and society as a whole
Iran Human Rights – Every year several hundred people are executed by the Iranian authorities. According to reports by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and other human rights groups, death row prisoners have often no access to a defence lawyer after their arrest and are sentenced to death following unfair trials and based on confessions extracted from them under torture.
Read More »“Oppression Stops Life:” Narges Mohammadi Recounts Returning to an Empty Home
CHRI – For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was allowed to go on a three-day furlough on September 26, 2018. But according to her letter, published on October 2 by the Defenders of Human Rights Center (where Mohammadi worked before the organization was banned in Iran), the experience was far from enjoyable.
Read More »Three People Sentenced to Death in Iran as 32 Others Issued Harsh Sentences For Alleged Currency Hoarding
CHRI – Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison sentences for allegedly manipulating Iran’s gold and currency markets, Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei announced on October 1, 2018.
Read More »Iran summons pundit, soccer icon over quake relief donations
Al-Monitor – “People will be the supreme judges,” wrote Ai Daei at the end of a lengthy post on his Instagram page, which is followed by some 3.6 million people. The strongly worded critical post came after the legendary former soccer player and current coach was summoned by the Iranian judiciary for “explanations” regarding public donations wired to his account for …
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