Sources tell CBS News that as many as 20,000 people may have been killed in Iran’s crackdown, reviving painful memories for survivors now living in the U.S. WUSA9 | Jacqueline Quynh | January 15, 2026 WASHINGTON — As protests against Iran’s government stretch into a third week, members of […]
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France 24 | December 23, 2025 Four Nobel laureates and several former heads of state are among the more than 400 prominent women who have signed a letter demanding the immediate release of Zahra Tabari, an Iranian engineer facing execution. The letter, organized by a London-based association, stated that Tabari faced
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30 October 2025 GENEVA – The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran warned of a serious deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran following Israeli airstrikes in June, succeeded by a domestic crackdown that has further constricted civic space, undermined due process, and eroded respect for the right to life. In the
INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIGEST | Hossein Sadeghpour | October 6, 2025 Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, that history repeats itself—“the first time as tragedy, the second as farce” (“das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce”). His meditation on the French Revolutions of 1789
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29 September 2025 GENEVA – Over 1000 people have been killed in less than nine months of 2025, UN experts said today, warning that the figures represented a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law. “The sheer scale of executions in Iran is staggering and represents a grave violation of the right to life,”
Free Iran Scholar Network | Shirin Nariman | Aug. 22, 2025 Shirin Nariman is a former political prisoner in Iran during the 1980s. As a former political prisoner in Iran, I witnessed horrors that remain etched into my memory, nightly executions, the shouts of tortured inmates, and the
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AP | August 12, 2025 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s police detained 21,000 suspects during the 12-day air war between Israel and Iran in June, state media reported on Tuesday. A report by state TV quoted a police spokesperson, Gen. Saeed Montazeralmahdi, as saying people reported the suspects to the
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Amnesty International | July 31, 2025 Responding to the Iranian authorities’ use of a guillotine machine to amputate the fingers of three men in Urumieh Central Prison on 30 July as corporal punishment imposed after a grossly unfair, torture-tainted trial, Hussein Baoumi, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and
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July 22, 2025 The following report has been reposted on its anniversary, due to its significance. London, 22 July 2024: Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) welcomes the landmark report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran on the 1988 massacre and Iran’s other atrocity crimes published for the
Speech at the European Parliament, Strasbourg | June 18, 2025 Honorable Members of the European Parliament, Dear friends, I am honored to once again stand before you — the elected representatives of the people of Europe — who have stood firmly with the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance in their struggle for freedom
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