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Amnesty International’s written statement to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council (25 February – 22 March 2019) AI Index: MDE 13/9828/2019 – 11 February 2019 Amnesty International urges all states to renew and support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and urges the Iranian authorities to cooperate with the mandate. The organization deeply values the work of the Special Rapporteur in investigating and reporting on wide-ranging human rights violations that the Iranian authorities are committing against their people. It also greatly appreciates the urgent appeals that the Special Rapporteur issues…
Stand For Human Rights in Iran Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:00 AM Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 2nd. Ave & 47th St United Nations New York, NY Sponsor: Association of Iranian Americans in New York Member of Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC)-www.oiac.org Contact: Mo Alafchi at media@oiac.org
ARAB NEWS | Dr. Majid Rafizadeh | September 16, 2018 This Islamic Republic of Iran is mired in crises, few of which stem from US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the subsequent renewed economic sanctions. Those actions only serve to help the US, and hopefully the international community as a whole, in putting pressure on Iran’s clerical regime at a time when it is most vulnerable and least likely to conceal the misdeeds that make such pressure necessary. Iran’s national currency, the Rial, plumbed new depths this month, trading at more than 150,000 to the US dollar. The…
By INU Staff | August 18, 2018 INU – The US State Department confirmed on Wednesday, August 15, that it is “closely monitoring” reports of human rights abuses in Iran. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said: “We are closely monitoring reports of numerous human rights defenders and members of minority groups, such as the Gonabadi Dervishes, who were unlawfully or arbitrarily incarcerated in Iranian regime prisons.” This announcement came after Tehran’s Revolution Court sentenced prominent Gonabadi Dervish Mostafa Abdi to over 26 years in prison for serving as an administrator of a news site dedicated to the Gonabadi dervishes. Seven other dervishes…
By Iran HRM | Jul 8, 2018 Roughly 200 people were arrested during recent protests which started on June 30 in the southern cities of Khorramshahr and Abadan over drinking water shortages. The number is far higher than the 10 people the judiciary media reported to be detained. The purified-water shortage in southwestern Iran saw the staging of one of the largest water-related protests in Iran this year. Residents of the Khuzestan provincial cities of Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Ahvaz say their water supplies have been polluted for days despite pledges by Iranian authorities to quickly resolve the problem. According to Iranian…
June 13, 2018 The arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, is an outrageous attack on a brave and prolific human rights defender, Amnesty International said today. Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested at her home in Tehran this morning and transferred to the prosecutor’s office of Evin prison, according to her husband, Reza Khandan. In an interview earlier today with Manoto News, a Persian language news channel broadcast from outside Iran, Reza Khandan also revealed that Nasrin Sotoudeh was told she was being arrested to serve a five-year prison sentence. However, neither he nor Nasrin Sotoudeh knew anything…
By Radio Liberty | April 12, 2018 In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.” Iran ranks second in the world after China in terms of executions and has “carried out 84% of the global total number of executions with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan.” However, Amnesty International has observed that there has been “a slight decrease (5%) in execution figures” in Iran compared to 2016. The report said Iran is one of the 23 countries that have not…
30 April 2018 Bulldozing, road construction, mass rubbish dumping and new burial plots used to compromise and destroy mass graves Iranian authorities deliberately eradicating vital forensic evidence that could hamper the rights to truth, justice and reparations At least 4,000-5,000 people secretly buried in mass graves after bloody 1988 massacre New evidence including satellite imagery, photo and video analysis shows that the Iranian authorities are deliberately destroying suspected or confirmed mass grave sites associated with the 1988 massacre in which thousands of prisoners detained for political reasons were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed, according to a report released by Amnesty…
VOA NEWS ON IRAN | Michael Lipin | April 24, 2018 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s weeklong visit to New York to defend Iran’s nuclear and regional policies has drawn protests from an Iranian American group. Several dozen supporters of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) joined a demonstration Monday across the street from New York’s Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as it hosted a discussion with Zarif on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and U.S.-Iran relations. Supporters of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) protest Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s appearance at the Council on…
OIAC | Wednesday, April 18th 2018 OIAC deplores the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) hosting of the Iranian regime’s foreign minister Javad Zarif next week. We will hold a rally outside the venue beginning at 5pm EST.”- OIAC WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 18, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ — Washington, DC; April 18, 2018 Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) deplores the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) hosting of the Iranian regime’s foreign minister Javad Zarif next week. To show its outrage, OIAC will hold a rally outside the venue beginning at 5pm EST. Zarif’s appearance at the Council is an affront to the…