Category: Human rights
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Juan Cole
Critique of US Policy in Iraq Bush Administration policies in Iraq have largely been a failure. It has created a failed state in that country, which is in flames and seething with new religious and ethnic nationalist passions of a sort never before seen on this scale in modern Iraqi history. The severe instability in…
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Iran Says No Charges Issued Against Woman Student’s Public Act Of Stripping
Tehran: Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped off to her underwear at a university in Tehran. “Considering that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she was ill, she was handed over to her family… and no judicial case has been filed…
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Iran says no charges against student who stripped to underwear
Iran says no charges against student who stripped to underwear AFPLast Updated: Nov 19, 2024, 08:16:00 PM IST Synopsis An Iranian student who removed her clothes at a Tehran university, sparking outrage from officials, has not been indicted. While authorities initially condemned the act as “immoral”, they later stated she was under severe pressure and…
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Iran Says No Charges Against Student Who Stripped To Underwear
By AFP – Agence France Presse November 19, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size ADDS background Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped off to her underwear at a university in Tehran. “Considering that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she…
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Iran slams new EU, UK sanctions as unjustified: foreign ministry
Iran slams new EU, UK sanctions as unjustified: foreign ministry Iran slams new EU, UK sanctions as unjustified: foreign ministry Iran has slammed new EU and UK sanctions, which included its national carrier, again denying that it has supplied weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine Iran has repeatedly rejected Western accusations that it…
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What Trump’s ‘Israel first’ cabinet means for the Middle East
US President-elect Donald J. Trump announced his cabinet nominees last week ahead of the 20 January inauguration following his November election victory. Across roles like secretary of state, Middle East envoy, secretary of defence, US ambassador to Israel, and United Nations ambassador, Trump signalled a resolutely pro-Israel position. Marco Rubio, nominated for secretary of state,…
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Canada foiled Iran plot to assassinate former minister
Canada foiled Iran plot to assassinate former minister Canadian authorities claimed that they recently foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate a former justice minister, who has been a harsh critic of Iran Ottawa, which severed diplomatic ties with Iran more than a decade ago, listed the Revolutionary Guard as a banned terror group in June…
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Concerns grow for imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi’s health in Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi underwent a complex surgery in Iran that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears but was immediately returned to prison, raising the risks to her life, rights groups warned. A letter…
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Woman owned cafe in Indonesia’s Sharia stronghold shakes stigma
In this picture taken on November 11, 2024, Morning Mama owner Qurrata Ayuni (C), who lost her parents in the 2004 tsunami, poses alongside staff members at her cafe in Banda Aceh. – Qurrata Ayuni opened Morning Mama — which she says is the lone woman-run cafe in Aceh’s provincial capital — last year to…
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Iran Slams New EU, UK Sanctions As Unjustified: Foreign Ministry
By AFP – Agence France Presse November 19, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size Iran’s foreign ministry Tuesday slammed as unjustified the new sanctions by the European Union and Britain against Tehran over its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. “While the president of Ukraine has admitted that no Iranian ballistic missiles have been…