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The ‘trampling of humanity’ continues in Iran
Amnesty International has added to the ongoing outrage at the treatment of political prisoners in Iran following November 2019’s major protests, reports JANE GREEN
An annual ceremony commemorating Ashoura in Tehran
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A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
LAST November, when protests erupted in Tehran, rapidly spreading across Iran, the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) highlighted the connections between the economic plight of the Iranian people and the ongoing abuse of human rights in the so-called Islamic Republic.
A recent report by Amnesty International, Trampling Humanity, confirms the extent of the abuse by the Iranian regime, as it attempted to suppress the protests and strike fear into any opposition to the theocratic dictatorship.
The Amnesty report concluded that the Iranian regime had, “committed widespread patterns of serious human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, and flagrant breaches of the right to a fair trial.”
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