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A group of UN independent experts on Saturday called on the government of Iran to halt the startling increase in the number of hangings since the start of 2014. According to the UN Office of the Commissioner...
Iran has executed 40 people in two weeks: Amnesty International
The Iranian government has carried out 40 executions in the two weeks since the beginning of 2014, claims human rights group Amnesty International in a statement published Thursday. "The spike in the number of executions...
Federal appeals court strikes down FCC regulations regarding 'net neutrality'
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday struck down Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules that required broadband providers to employ nondiscriminatory practices in the treatment of Internet...
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Friday urged Iran to stop the execution of five Ahwazi activists. UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed...
A UN official on Thursday released a report indicating that the government of Iran is torturing human rights activists and threatening the activists' families with rape or death. In a report to the UN General Assembly UN...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on Iran Friday to immediately stop all executions , including 11 planned for Saturday. The OHCHR stated that Iran has failed to provide the...
UN rights committee concerned about Iran executions, minority rights
The UN Human Rights Committee expressed concern Friday over the protection of individuals' rights in Iran. The committee, composed of independent experts, has recently examined Iran's progress in adopting the International Covenant on...
Iran's deputy ambassador to the UN, Eshagh al-Habib, on Thursday denied allegations in a recent UN report that human rights violations in Iran are on the rise . Al-Habib criticized the report for being poorly sourced, non-neutral and...
UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Ahmed Shaheed said Monday that human rights violations in Iran are on the rise, as he presented a report to the UN General Assembly . Citing an increase in persecutions among...
