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Iran: Video Footage Of A Public Flogging In Southern City Of Bushehr

Iran-HRM Disturbing video footage of what appears to be a public flogging in southern city of Bushehr, in which a young man lying flat face down on a sort of bedframe emerged on March 2. According to eyewitnesses, not only the young victim, but the commuters including children were brutalized and degraded by the experience. A bystander says: “For the …

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45 European MPs Call on EU Foreign Policy Chief to Support Iranian Women’s Anti-Compulsory-Hijab Protest

CHRI—Forty-five members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have sent an open letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urging her to call on Iranian officials to immediately release the women who have been arrested for participating in the recent anti-compulsory-hijab protests in Iran. “We now ask you to publicly support the women who have been arrested by the Iranian …

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Disband the Revolutionary Courts in Iran (Video)

Iran Human Rights – Almost four decades after the Iranian revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary courts are still playing a major role in the Iranian judiciary system. According to IHR records, from 2010 to 2016, more than 3000 people have been executed by the Islamic Revolutionary Courts. Suppressing protests, arresting activists, long-term prison sentences, capital punishment, and repression and assault of …

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Conserving Iran and Iraq’s wetlands

unenvironment.org  – There’s growing awareness in the Islamic Republic of Iran that wetlands are valuable and sustain livelihoods. Ramsar, “the gem of northern Iran”, is the town that gives its name to the Ramsar Convention.

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A New Film on Ancient Persia: “Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture”

Payvand.com – World Premiere of the film “Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture” will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London on 1 February 2018. The film – which is the first-ever documentary on this iconic monument – is directed by Pejman Akbarzadeh, based in the Netherlands. Taq Kasra, Symbol of Persian Empire in …

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Mashhad in the spotlight: inequality plagues Iran’s holy city

Guardian – The wave of anti-government protests in Iran at the end of December began in one of the country’s conservative strongholds: its second city, Mashhad. Site of the huge Imam Reza shrine that draws more than 20 million Shia pilgrims a year, the city’s population has ballooned to around 3 million in recent years. After a proposed modernisation of …

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Audio recording of Dr AhmadReza Djalalis addressed to Sadegh Larijani on the false accusations against him by interrogators of the Intelligence Service – Secretly recorded in Evin (DorrTV exclusive)

Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, hi with respect. I want to say that I Ahmadreza Djalali during 21 months in prison have had many problems that are cause by the agents of the secret service of Iran, that in the begining started with them creating acusations towards me and then by the means of manipulation and pressure managed to not only concieve …

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Tehran Prosecutor: “No Discussion” About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Release Date

CHRI -Two day after a former senior British politician expressed optimism after discussing the case of imprisoned Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with Iranian officials, the Tehran Province prosecutor denied she would soon be released. “Nazanin Zaghari is serving her prison sentence and there’s no discussion about freeing her,” Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told the semi-official Jamaran news agency on January 12, …

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