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2021-06-21 11:57
Deadly clashes in Yemen as Saudi Arabia targeted with 17 drones
Fresh battles have erupted between Yemeni forces and militants loyal to Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s strategic northern city of Marib. The clashes are reported to have left 16 pro-Saudi militants killed.
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2021-06-20 17:29
Saudia Arabia "to execute" 40 teens
Human Rights activists have raised the alarm over plans by Saudi Arabia to execute more than 40 teenagers. According to monitoring group, Saudi Leaks, the shocking revelation comes just a week after the Kingdom carried out the death penalty for Mustafa al-Darwish, who was sentenced for alleged crimes committed as a minor.
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2021-05-08 21:32
Human rights chief asks Germany to cooperate with Tehran regarding anti-Iran sanctions
TEHRAN— In a meeting with German Envoy to Tehran Hans-Udo Muzel on Saturday, Ali Baqeri Kani, the Deputy Judiciary Chief and Head of the Iranian Judiciary's High Council for Human Rights, asked Berlin to investigate the involvement of German figures in the illegal sanctions against Iran, especially those related to medicine, food, and medical equipment.
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2021-04-27 12:26
Iran writes to EU, says the bloc exercises double standards on human rights
TEHRAN – In a strongly worded letter to the Council of the European Union, Iran formally protested against the blacklisting of several individuals and entities, saying it shows European double standards on human rights in Iran.
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2021-04-26 18:37
Iran writes to EU, says the bloc exercises double standards on human rights
TEHRAN – In a strongly worded letter to the Council of the European Union, Iran formally protested against the blacklisting of several individuals and entities, saying it shows European double standards on human rights in Iran.
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2021/04/20
By Jim W. Dean
Duante Wright, a senseless death due to family and police negligence
America saw another tragedy in the senseless death of this young black man. Two lives are now destroyed, a 20 year old young man struggling with competency and responsibility issues, and a 26 year female police veteran who when attempting to tase the resisting arrest man, drew her service revolver from her right hip when the taser was on her left hip.
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2021-04-15 15:17
Iran summons Portuguese ambassador over EU sanctions
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Portuguese Ambassador to Tehran, Carlos Costa Neves, to protest at the European Union’s “impudent” move to blacklist a number of Iranian officials and bodies.
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2021-04-03 16:09
By Mohammad Mazhari
Muslims have become the new scapegoats in Europe: historian
TEHRAN - An American historian says Muslims have been used as scapegoats for the failures of European policies.
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2021-03-19 16:51
Mohammad Ali Saki
Penn professor says human rights are marginal issues in U.S. policy making
TEHRAN - Ian Lustick, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, says that human rights have a very “marginal” role in U.S. policy making “if at all”.
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2021-02-27 22:06
Khashoggi killing report: A test for Biden’s human rights claim
TEHRAN- Jamal Khashoggi was killed by a Saudi hit squad operating under the command of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), United States intelligence agencies have concluded.
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2021-02-15 18:51
Raisi suggests prison inspection between Iran and the West
TEHRAN - Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the Iranian Judiciary, has suggested that if Western countries are sincere in their respect for human rights they can open their prisons for inspection by Iran and in that situation Iran will be ready to open its prisons to them.
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2021-01-11 15:02
Letter to Guterres: Iran criticizes WHO for biased support of ‘inadequately-tested American vaccine'
TEHRAN – The Academy of Medical Sciences of Iran has written a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, criticizing the World Health Organization for being biased in favor of inadequately-tested COVID-19 vaccines produced in the United States.
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2020-12-28 16:32
Iran welcomes exchanging views on human rights with the West: diplomat
Western countries' critical stance toward Iran comes from their political motivations, Baharvand says
TEHRAN – Mohsen Baharvand, Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, has said that Iran welcomes exchange of views with the West and human rights organizations, but the proud nation of Iran does not accept any kind of interfering viewpoints.
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2020-12-20 22:11
All European states should be dissolved: senior MP
TEHRAN – Mojtaba Zolnouri, the head of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has said if the violators of the rights of the Iranian people are to be punished, all European governments must be dissolved because they have committed the biggest violation of the rights of the Iranian people.
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2020-12-20 22:03
225 Iranian lawmakers denounce European Parliament resolution on Iran
TEHRAN – A group of 225 Iranian lawmakers on Sunday strongly condemned a resolution recently adopted by the European Parliament on the alleged human rights violations in Iran.
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2020-12-20 13:15
‘We love human rights when we can kick China, Iran’, says MEP
Mick Wallace says European Parliament cannot debate ‘Saudi-UAE genocide’ in Yemen because Europe is a complicit
TEHRAN – A member of the European Parliament has railed against European countries for their hypocrisy when dealing with human rights issues, saying the EU loves human rights when it comes to China and Iran, but it can’t debate Saudi, UAE war crimes in Yemen.
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2020-12-19 17:47
Tehran: Europeans not entitled to lecture about human rights
TEHRAN – Head of the Iranian Judiciary's High Council for Human Rights has reacted to an anti-Iran resolution adopted by the European Parliament, saying those who have prevented innocent children from accessing medicine are not even justified to talk about “animal rights”.
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2020-12-02 11:33
By Mohammad Ali Saki
G20 interests override Saudi rights violations: Canadian lawyer
TEHRAN - Edward C. Corrigan, a Canadian analyst, and the lawyer believes that Baroness Kennedy’s report about the condition of women's rights activists is a critical step in revealing “human rights violations and suppression of dissent” in Saudi Arabia.
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2020/11/30
By Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia’s abominable human rights record
Like the U.S., Israel, and other rogue states, the Saudis operate by their own rules in flagrant violation of international laws, norms, and standards. It’s the world’s head-chopping/public whippings capital. Anyone can be targeted for exercising free expression, human rights activism, or other forms of dissent against despotic rule.
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2020-11-23 10:56
By Mohammad Mazhari
Canada, U.S. have ‘selective’ approach toward human rights: lawyer
TEHRAN – A human rights lawyer says the U.S. and Canada follow double standards toward human rights, noting that they “support human rights selectively”.
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2020-11-21 18:43
Parliamentary faction slams Western abuse of human rights notion
TEHRAN – The human rights and citizenship faction of Iran’s Parliament has strongly condemned the political resolution of three European states against Iran, saying the West is politically abusing the UN Human Rights Council.
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2020-11-20 17:38
Tehran rejects anti-Iran human rights resolution
Among the countries that back the Canadian-proposed resolution are the Israel, S. Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, and Albania
TEHRAN — Tehran has dismissed as “unacceptable” a draft human rights resolution against Iran which was put forward by the Canadian government at the United Nations.
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2020-11-17 21:21
Tehran criticizes Guterres for ignoring U.S. violation of Iranian rights
TEHRAN – Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, Ali Bagheri-Kani, has strongly criticized UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for ignoring U.S. violation of Iranians' rights through inhumane sanctions, while at the same time attacking Iran’s human rights performance.
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2020-11-12 00:33
By Reza Moshfegh
Ottawa a heaven for Iranian fraudsters: HRC ambassador at large to West Asia
TEHRAN - Canada claims to defend human rights while it sold nearly 3 billion Canadian dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia in 2019 which are chiefly used to kill innocent Yemeni citizens, including women and children.
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2020-11-11 10:54
Canada’s double standard over human rights
TEHRAN – As Iran and Ukraine move forward with their cooperation on the downed airplane, analysts put the spotlight on Canada’s double standards over human rights. Canada is making maverick efforts to use the airplane incident to turn up the heat on Iran.
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2020-11-10 20:00
Tehran says U.S. sanctions grossly violate human rights
TEHRAN – Iran has censured the United States over its unilateral sanctions against nations, describing such measures as a serious violation of human rights, ILNA reported.
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2020-11-06 19:51
Hate speech by Western politicians threatens ‘human rights’, says Iranian envoy
TEHRAN — A recent increase in hate speech by certain Western politicians pose a serious threat to human rights, Tehran’s representative at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly warned on Thursday.
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2020-10-27 20:38
Envoy: Provoking so-called human rights issues part of ‘maximum pressure strategy’ against Iran
TEHRAN – Tehran’s representative to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee on Monday denounced a new report by the UN rights rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran as part of the Trump administration’s "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic Republic, Fars reported.
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2020-10-15 00:52
Official dismisses Europeans’ human rights claims as hypocritical
TEHRAN – Head of the Iranian Judiciary's High Council for Human Rights, Ali Bagheri-Kani, has said Iranians will never forget or forgive the inhumane acts of some European countries, dismissing their push for human rights in Iran as hypocritical.
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2020-09-28 18:14
Judiciary chief: Iran respects ‘genuine human rights’
TEHRAN — Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi says Iran regards “genuine human rights” as respectable, vowing that “we will not tolerate the slightest rights violations.”
