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Joint Statement by 43 Rights Groups to the 55th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council

Iranhr.net – 43 Iranian and international human rights organisations called on UN Human Rights Council Member States to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the extension of the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) …

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Public Executions in 2023

Iranhr.net – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. For 45 years, Iran has been one of the few countries to carry out executions in public spaces. Public executions have been repeatedly criticised by the international community and domestic civil society in Iran. Both the …

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Execution of Ethnic Minorities in 2023

iranhr.net – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the full report, please click here. ETHNIC MINORITIES As this report and previous annual reports demonstrate, ethnic minorities in Iran are overrepresented in death penalty statistics. Furthermore, with 25 executions per million inhabitants, Sistan and Baluchistan province had the second highest number of …

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Newly Elected Iranian Hardliners Try To Assert Their Influence

iranintl – Newly elected ultraconservative lawmakers are poised to leverage Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf’s credentials in order to protect a hardliner threatened with exclusion from parliament by the IRGC. All elected and re-elected members of parliament need to have their mandates approved first by the investigative committee and then in full session of the newly elected legislature. Ghalibaf’s saga started when …

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Israel Hits Damascus As Iran Hints At Giving Syria Weapons

iranintl – Israel struck multiple sites in Syria hours after Iran hinted that it would give Syria weapons to “boost” its military power. In a meeting between the defense ministers of Iran and Syria Saturday, the Iranian official said his country is willing to “utilize its full capabilities” to help Syria strengthen its “defense and deterrence” against Israel and the …

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