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2022-07-11 21:53
Iran slams Sweden for violating Hamid Nouri’s basic rights
TEHRAN- Iran's top human rights official has denounced Sweden for denying Hamid Nouri the opportunity to see his family in person while he has been confined to a solitary confinement for almost three years.
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2022-07-04 22:02
U.S. incompetent to comment on human rights: Iran’s Gharibabadi
TEHRAN- Kazem Gharibabadi, Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, noted on Sunday that the United States is not qualified to speak on the subject of human rights due to its numerous abuses of international law.
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2022-07-03 21:24
Iran demands accountability from countries complicit in Sardasht chemical attack
TEHRAN- Kazem Qaribabadi, head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters and deputy chief of the Judiciary, said on Saturday that the U.S. and certain European nations were complicit in providing chemical weapons to the former Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein, and that they should be held accountable.
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2022-06-28 22:07
Foreign Ministry label U.S. "biggest violator of human rights"
Iran censures ‘economic terrorism’ in annual report on U.S. human rights violation
TEHRAN - In its annual report on human rights, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has detailed the U.S. government's rights abuses, including its use of "economic terrorism," labelling the U.S. the "biggest violator of human rights".
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2022-06-21 21:43
‘UN report on human rights situation in Iran is unprofessional’
TEHRAN— Following the submission of a report about human rights situation in Iran by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, Iran’s High Council for Human Rights released a statement on Tuesday calling the UN interim report a “non-reflection of the country’s human rights developments and achievements.”
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2022-06-14 22:00
Top Iran rights official blasts illegal trial of Assadi
TEHRAN - The secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights has condemned the detention and prosecution of an Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, who was abducted in Belgium in July 2018.
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2022-05-16 22:40
Iran criticizes U.S. for abusing human rights
TEHRAN- Saeed Khatibzadeh, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said Sunday slammed Washington for using human rights as a tool to achieve its objectives.
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2022-04-20 22:18
Iran criticizes UK intention to deport migrants to Rwanda
“The UK’s dark human rights record speaks for itself”
TEHRAN - The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and deputy chief of the Iranian Judiciary has condemned the United Kingdom's decision to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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2022-04-19 21:22
Sweden morphing into prison for Muslims: human rights chief
TEHRAN – A senior Iranian human rights official has condemned sacrilege to the Holy Quran in Sweden, saying the country in turning into a prison for Muslims.
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2022-04-12 22:15
Tehran slams police harassment of Iranian citizen in Denmark
TEHRAN- Iran's top human rights official has submitted a letter of protest to Denmark's immigration minister in response to the horrific maltreatment of an Iranian asylum seeker by the European country's immigration police.
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2022-04-02 20:54
Iran defies Human Rights Council resolution
TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Friday dismissed the Human Rights Council resolution on the human rights situation in Iran as totally unacceptable and illegal.
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2022-03-15 22:31
Iranian rights chief says Riyadh must be held accountable for mass execution
TEHRAN – Iran’s human rights chief said on Monday that Saudi authorities must be held accountable for the latest execution of dozens of prisoners in a single day, noting that the kingdom must make clarifications on the charges leveled against those put to death.
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2022-03-14 20:00
‘We are witnessing a political approach towards human rights’
TEHRAN - Kazem Gharibabadi, the secretary of the High Council for Human Rights, has said violating human rights is bad everywhere, but the concern is that ‘we are witnessing a political approach towards human rights.
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2022-03-02 18:47
Iran participates in high-ranking meeting of the UN Human Rights Council
TEHRAN - An Iranian delegation led by Kazem Gharibabadi, the Judiciary’s deputy chief for international affairs and secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters, has participated in a high-ranking meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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2022-02-23 18:31
Iran’s Gharibabadi discusses human rights with Russian, Chinese ambassadors
TEHRAN – Kazem Gharibabadi, the head of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters, held separate meetings on Tuesday afternoon with the ambassadors of Russia and China to Iran.
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2022-02-11 21:11
Is the Israeli apartheid regime on edge?
TEHRAN- A coalition of around 300 human rights groups and civil society organizations have condemned the Israeli occupation, calling on the international community to hold the regime accountable for its apartheid practices against the Palestinians.
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2022-01-19 18:30
Stories by Iranian writer on children individual, social rights published in English
TEHRAN – A book series by an Iranian writer teaching children their personal and social rights based on information from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has been published in English.
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2021-12-27 22:04
Iranian negotiators don’t allow outside issues to affect Vienna talks: official
TEHRAN – A senior Iranian judicial official says the United States and certain other Western countries are abusing the issue of human rights as a “political tool” to advance their foreign policy goals, noting that the Iranian negotiators don’t allow outside issues to affect the trend of talks in Vienna.
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2021-12-17 21:39
Iran rights chief calls on Canada to annul anti-hijab law
TEHRAN - Iranian human rights chief on Thursday called on Canada to revoke a discriminatory law banning a citizen from her teaching career for wearing a hijab in classroom in the eastern province of Quebec.
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2021-12-08 19:51
Iran, Indonesia hold human rights talks
TEHRAN - The seventh round of human rights talks between Iran and Indonesia hosted by the Islamic Republic was held virtually on Tuesday.
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2021-12-08 16:19
UN decries “disastrous” human rights for Palestinians
TEHRAN - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has strongly condemned Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, describing their situation as disastrous, with severe infringements occurring that are affecting the lives of millions of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation.
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2021-12-06 11:56
Irony of U.S. Human Rights Records, Claims
TEHRAN- The Americans do not develop close ties with states and leaders that pursue independence or are concerned about their own country’s national interests, an Iranian scholar and political analyst said.
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2021-12-04 17:56
U.S. probes new “civilian fatalities” in Syria
TEHRAN - The United States has triggered further controversy after acknowledging an airstrike it launched on Friday may have led to more civilian casualties in Syria.
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2021-11-24 17:16
Protecting refugees is a human rights principle, Iran writes to UNHCR
TEHRAN – The communications and constitution implementation department of the Vice Presidency for Legal Affairs in a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees called for the protection of asylum seekers and refugees in accordance with human rights obligations.
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2021-11-03 19:35
By Andrew Mitrovica
Even in death, Palestinians suffer obscene indignities
Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity.
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2021-11-03 19:35
Pfizer making a killing, literally
TEHRAN - Once again, this year, the American drug manufacturer Pfizer has significantly raised its revenue forecast by cashing in on Covid-19 vaccines and triggering calls by rights groups to stop putting profit ahead of human lives.
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2021-10-30 21:06
Iran rejects ‘weaponization of human rights, selectivity and double standards’
TEHRAN – A senior Iranian diplomat in New York has called on certain states to stop weaponizing human rights amid tensions between Iran and the United Nations over a UN report criticizing Iran’s human rights record.
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2021-10-29 18:59
By Mohammad Mazhari
U.S. doing not enough to criticize rights violations in S. Arabia and Egypt: professor
TEHRAN – A professor of law says that the U.S. does not do nearly enough to criticize human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, highlighting double standards when it comes to human rights.
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2021-10-20 18:33
‘Shameful milestone’ in Yemen as 10,000 children killed from violence
TEHRAN - UNICEF spokesperson James Elder has just returned from Yemen and has more grim news about children living in what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Addressing a press briefing in Geneva, he says, “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone: 10,000 children have been killed or maimed since Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign started in March 2015. That’s the equivalent of four children every day.”
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2021-10-20 18:32
UN envoy slams Israel’s land grab policies in West Bank, siege on Gaza
TEHRAN - The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
