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Iran: cartoonist released from Evin prison
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Iran: Students given 99 lashes each after attending mixed-gender party
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U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution on Camp Liberty
The United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved and referred to the House Floor a bipartisan resolution calling for “safety and security” of the members of the main Iranian opposition group living in Camp Liberty, Iraq. It was the first resolution of its kind. …
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FIDH, DHRC & LDDHI welcome the “City of Paris” medal for Iranian political prisoner
FIDH and its member organisations from Iran, LDDHI and DHRC, laud the decision to award “City of Paris” medals to persecuted journalists from around the world, among them Ms. Narges Mohammadi, spokesperson and vice president of DHRC. During a ceremony in Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris on 2 May 2016,…
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Iran lashes woman in public
A woman has received 100 lashings in the town of Golpayegan, central Iran. State. the punishment on 27 April. Najafali Alyan, the government’s prosecutor in the town, said the lashings were punishment for adultery.
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Brave mothers criticize Khomeini in Iran memorial
A number of brave Iranian mothers of youths who were martyred in the 2009 nationwide uprising against the mullahs’ regime have publicly criticized Khomeini for installing a regime which is murdering Iran’s children by the day. The mothers spoke out at a gathering in Tehran’s Shahriar District last Friday to…
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Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran
Amnesty International – Scores of youths in Iran are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18, said Amnesty International in a new report published today. The report debunks recent attempts by Iran’s authorities to whitewash their continuing violations of children’s rights and deflect criticism of their…
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Waiting to die: the Iranian child inmates facing execution – in pictures
The Guardian, Friday 8th January – In Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri has photographed girls in the harsh conditions of juvenile detention…
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Camp Liberty Resident Fatemeh Abbasi passed away
Ms. Fatemeh Abbasi, an elderly mother in Camp Liberty, Iraq, who was active with the Iranian Resistance for the past 34 years, on Tuesday lost her life in the camp’s clinic. Ms. Abbasi, 77, had been suffering from cancer and was not approved by doctors with the International Organization for…
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23 residents killed in attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq
At least 23 members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), were killed on Thursday, October 29, 2015, in a missile attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq. At least one of the Camp Liberty residents who was killed was a woman.