UN Press briefing notes | Office of the HCHR | Aug. 9, 2024 From: Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell Geneva – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is extremely concerned about reports that, in the space of two days […]
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Townhall | Ivan Sascha Sheehan | Aug 3, 2024 In the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime committed genocide. That is one of the key takeaways from the final report issued by Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur for the situation of human rights in Iran, who concludes his
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NCRI | 5th July 2024 In an unprecedented show of solidarity, over 4000 legislators from 84 parliaments across 50 countries have issued a statement backing the Ten-Point Plan of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and calling for the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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By Reuters | June 19, 2024 OTTAWA, June 19 (Reuters) – Canada is listing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and could investigate former senior Iranian officials living in the country, a senior cabinet member said on Wednesday. “Canada will use all possible tools to combat terrorist activities carried
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Townhall | Struan Stevenson | Jun 17, 2024 It has been a month of shame and humiliation for the West. First, the UN General Assembly held a memorial service to honor ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ – Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran who was killed in a
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Washington Post | By Nilo Tabrizy | April 4, 2024 Iran — already notorious for its high rate of executions — has ramped up its use of the death penalty, according to an Amnesty International report published Thursday. Amnesty found that Iran executed 853 people in 2023, the highest number recorded since 2015,
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AFP | April 4, 2024 Geneva (AFP) – The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday prolonged by a year an independent international fact-finding mission investigating Iran’s deadly crackdown on protests that erupted in 2022. The United Nations’ top rights body extended the mission, and the mandate of the council’s special rapporteur on
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AP | February 8, 2024 STOCKHOLM (AP) — A senior member of the Swedish security police said Thursday that Iran has planned attacks on the country, days after local media reported that two Iranians were deported for a plot to kill three Swedish Jews several years ago. Earlier this week, Swedish
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New York Post | Joe Lieberman | Feb. 2, 2024 Though many in Washington were slow to recognize it, it’s now clear to all Iran has launched a war in the Middle East against the United States and our closest allies in Israel and the Arab world.
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AP | By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson | December 19, 2023 STOCKHOLM, Dec 19 (Reuters) – A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict and life sentence given to a former Iranian official convicted last year for his part in a mass execution of political prisoners in
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