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
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The demand for the end of human rights abuses unites the Iranian people
On the occasion of United Nations Human Rights Day, the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be a desperate one for anyone opposed to the regime. JANE GREEN reports
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi talks with patients and their families who have been demonstrating for the last four days outside the parliament demanding help with treatment and medicine for spinal muscular atrophy patients
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media
Be sure to get your orders in for the Together Alliance demo on March 28, says circulation manager BERNADETTE KEAVENEY
HUMAN rights abuses in Iran continue to be an issue for young people, women, trade unionists, ethnic and religious minorities, and the political opposition.
The regime does not see the judiciary as being independent from the ruling theocracy in the country.
The Islamic Republic’s judicial system criminalises dissent and even imprisons lawyers for doing their job.
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