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Weekly report on Human Right Violations in Iran 19th August 2016

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Iranian MP: Oil Minister to Be Impeached Unless New Contracts Model Amended

Tasnim – A senior Iranian lawmaker warned that the parliament will impeach Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh if a new model of oil contracts with foreign customers, which has recently been approved by President Hassan Rouhani’s administration, is not modified. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Seyed Nasser Mousavi Largani, who is a member of the parliament’s Economy Commission, pointed …

The Iranian Hamadan air base has been receiving Russian aircraft at the Syrian government’s request to tackle terrorism, Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said.

Sputnik — According to Dehghan, the use of Hamadan air base is the result of mutual cooperation at Syria’s government request. “Reception of Russian aircraft at the airbase in Hamadan is carried out in the framework of mutual cooperation and the fight against terrorism at the request of the Syrian government,” Hossein Dehghan said as quoted by the Tasnim news …

A Transsexual Civilian Arrested in Golestan Province

HRANA News Agency – Valiullah Vaziri, transsexual resident of Galikesh in Golestan province who had been collectively raped, was ridiculed after going to the police. After protests from this citizen to their disregard, he was detained and transferred to general crime prison in Gonbad-e-Kawoos. According to the report of the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), he was …

A report on The Quality of Life in Abu Musa Island; The Victims of Politics and Conflicts

HRANA News Agency – Abu Musa is Iran’s smallest county and the farthest point on the southern border of Iran. Abu Musa is an island 222 Km from Bandar Abbas (capital of Hormozgan Province) where with the promises of a better life by the officials, people from all over the country have settled in; yet these mostly migrant workers are …

iranintl – The secretary of the union of Iran’s university professors warned that the Interior…

iranintl – The Islamic Republic’s Education Minister is criticizing UNESCO’s 2030 Education Ag…

iranintl – The appointment of Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of President Ebrahim Raisi, to the …

iranintl – Iran retained its position as the second highest country to imprison writers amid t…

RFL/RE – An Iranian warship equipped with drones and missiles has crossed the equator into the…

VOA – Supporters of two U.S. nationals seen as unjustly imprisoned overseas are raising concer…

RFL/RE – Iran has released the crew of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel but r…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Iran’s Encirclement of Israel, Control of Red Sea, Almost Compl…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Sohrab Rafieian and Morteza Azimi, two co-defendants on death row…

iranintl – High-ranking officials from the US treasury will travel to Singapore and Malaysia n…

iranintl – Just over two weeks have passed since Israel conducted its surgical strike against …

iranintl – Israel is building a “cyber dome” to counter online threats, in particu…

iranintl – Since the Mahsa protests, Iran’s courts have prosecuted dozens of individuals…

iranintl – US lawmakers Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine) urged the Biden ad…

iranintl – Despite recent public outcry and opposition to the construction of a mosque in one …

Iranwire – On Wednesday, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executed Anwar Khezri, a Kurdis…

Iranwire – The start of a new crackdown on women in Iran and the deployment of morality police…

Iranwire – Saeed Mousanejad, a master’s student entering his first year at Tehran Univer…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Never before have sanctions been so ostentatiously disregarded withou…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nasir Hariri, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

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