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Iran sentences three more protesters to death, amid global outrage
Updated : 3 weeks, 3 days ago IST
Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24.
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Iranian chess player warned not to return home after competing without hij
Updated : 1 month ago IST
The 25-year-old player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab - a headscarf mandatory under Iran's strict dress codes.
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Iranian security personnel killed during protest
Updated : 1 month ago IST
More than 100 days after Mahsa Amini's death sparked nationwide unrest, a member of Iran's security forces on Sunday was shot dead during protests in the city of Semirom.
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Iran's ouster from Women's Commission shows UN's bias
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
The United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has removed Iran from the United Nations' leading global commission fighting for gender equality because of systematic violations of the rights of women and girls.
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US announces sanctions against human rights abusers in Iran
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Responding to a query over supporting protesters in Iran, Sullivan said, "We have had a drumbeat of announcements relative to sanctions against those who are perpetrating these gross human rights abuses and this repression. We haven't just done so ourselves, we have coordinated and aligned
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Iran abolishes 'morality police' after anti-government protests
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Iran's Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri said that the morality police "was abolished by the same authorities who installed it."
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Taliban urges Afghan refugees to refrain from protesting in Iran and Pakis
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Abdul Rahman Rashid, the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Refugees, urged Afghan refugees to avoid taking part in demonstrations held in Iran and Pakistan.
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Iran is in a "full-fledged human rights crisis," says UN rights chief Turk
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Chief Volker Turk on Thursday said that a "full-fledged" crisis is underway in Iran amid a crackdown on protesters.
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Iranian football team players refused to sing their national anthem at FIF
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Iranian football team players on Monday refused to sing their national anthem before their opening match against England on Monday at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, in apparent solidarity with protesters back home.
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UNICEF concerned over children's death in ongoing protest in Iran
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Raising its concern over the death of children in the ongoing protest in Iran, the United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, said in a statement on Friday, that the reported deaths of children at anti-government protests "must stop."
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Iranians protest 'Bloody Friday' security force crackdown as nationwide un
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Thousands of Iranians have protested in the nation's southeast to mark a September crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday".
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10 people, including children killed in anti-hijab protest in Iran
Updated : 3 months ago IST
At least 10 people, including children were killed on Friday crackdown against anti-hijab protest in Iran by Iranian security forces in the southeast of the country, reported CNN citing a human rights watchdog.
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