GOP Resolution Condemns Iran’s 2019 Crackdown of Protesters That Killed 1,500 Measure calls out Biden admin for lowering death count in official report Washington Free Beacon | Adam Kredo | November 17, 202 House lawmakers on Wednesday will unveil a resolution that marks the two-year anniversary of […]
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Washington Post | By Devlin Barrett and Kareem Fahim | June 22, 2021 The Justice Department moved Tuesday to seize more than 30 Web domains linked to Iranian state media, as American officials continued their efforts to counter what they say is Iranian propaganda and disinformation at a time of simmering tensions between the two countries. A
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Iran: UN calls for accountability on 1988 prison massacres marks turning point in three-decade struggle Amnesty International | Dec. 9, 2020 A group of UN human rights experts have written to the Iranian government warning that past and ongoing violations related to prison massacres in 1988 may amount to crimes against humanity and that they will call
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Radio Free Europe | Dec. 9, 2020Amnesty International has hailed a letter sent by UN experts to the Iranian government pressing for accountability over notorious prison massacres of dissidents in 1988. The human rights experts warned in their letter that past and ongoing violations related to the massacres “may amount to crimes against humanity,” Amnesty
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IRAN FOCUS | October 29, 2020 The United Nations General Assembly condemned the Iranian government on Monday for its ongoing and systematic human rights abuses. During the 75th session of UNGA’s Third Committee, which is focused on social and human rights issues, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, said that there is
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Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report Amnesty International | 2 September 2020 Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national
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Amnesty International | November 16, 2020 The Iranian authorities deliberately shut down the internet during nationwide protests in November 2019, hiding the true scale of unlawful killings by security forces, Amnesty International said today. On the anniversary of the deadliest day of the protests, Amnesty International is launching a new microsite, A web of impunity: The
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A hellish Pizza Hut delivery: Iran’s bomb to take out foes in Paris The Sunday Time | Peter Conradi, Paris | Nov 14, 2020 They looked like any couple out shopping as they walked across the Place d’Armes in Luxembourg’s old city and into a branch of Pizza Hut. But the police were watching closely.
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Washington Free Beacon | Adam Kredo | October 8, 2020 The Department of Justice on Wednesday seized the domain names of 92 websites that it says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was using to spread propaganda and disinformation to American audiences. Iran and the IRGC used these websites to “spread propaganda covertly” and “sow discord” among
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