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UN rights council votes to set up probe into Iran protests

INTERNATIONAL The UN's top human rights body voted on Thursday to set up an independent investigation into Iran's deadly repression of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council passed with 25 in favour, six against and 16 abstentions. Volker Turk, commissioner of the UNHCR, had earlier demanded Iran end its "disproportionate" use of force in quashing protests that erupted after the death in […]

today25 November 2022

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Iran protests: Three reported killed in Kurdistan region as Amini unrest continues

INTERNATIONAL Security forces shot dead at least three people in Iran's Kurdistan province on Saturday as protests continue over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, according to a rights group. Government forces "opened fire on protesters in the town of Divandarreh, killing at least three civilians", Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, a Norway-based Kurdish human rights group focusing on Iranian Kurdistan, told AFP. The incident came as demonstrations over the death […]

today20 November 2022

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No, Iran has not sentenced 15,000 protesters to death

INTERNATIONAL Canadian President Justin Trudeau has faced criticism after claiming that almost 15,000 people had been sentenced to death in Iran over their participation in the Mahsa Amini protests. In a tweet on Tuesday - later deleted - Trudeau expressed solidarity with weekslong demonstrations over the death of Amini, a Kurdish woman who died after being detained by the Iranian morality police over "inappropriate hijab". "Canada denounces the Iranian regime’s barbaric decision to […]

today16 November 2022

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Mahsa Amini: Iranians defy crackdown with nationwide demonstrations

INTERNATIONAL Protesters across Iran defied a nearly month-long crackdown on Saturday, activists said, chanting in the streets and in universities against the country's clerical leaders in a sustained wave of anger at the death of Mahsa Amini. The protests sweeping Iran since Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the country's Kurdish region, died on 16 September while being held for "inappropriate attire" pose one of the most serious challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 […]

today16 October 2022

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US official says Washington ‘will continue sanctions’ on Iran after Mahsa Amini killing

INTERNATIONAL A US State Department official said on Tuesday that Washington will continue to impose sanctions on Iranian entities engaged in rights abuses following the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. "The United States strongly supports the human rights of all Iranian women, including the right to peacefully assemble and to express themselves without fear of violence," Jennifer Gavito, deputy assistant secretary for Iran and Iraq at the State Department, said during an event hosted […]

today28 September 2022

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Mahsa Amini: Raisi says Iran must ‘decisively confront’ protesters as death toll doubles

INTERNATIONAL Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said protesters condemning the killing of Mahsa Amini should be "confronted decisively", after state media said 35 people had been killed during more than a week of protests, double the previous figure given. Amini died in police custody after Iran's morality police arrested the 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Tehran on 13 September for wearing her hijab in an "improper" way. Her death led to demonstrations in Iran and across […]

today24 September 2022

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