Iran should free detained journalist Amir Dehbashi and end its “outrageous” practise of censoring media, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned on Tuesday.
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Canada’s PM Trudeau pledges to hold Iran to account for shootdown of Flight 752
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will continue to hold Iran to account after its military shot down a passenger jet in January 2020.
UN rights experts call on Iran to end torture of Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali
UN human rights experts demanded Thursday that Iranian authorities put an end to the torture of Iranian-Swedish scientist and academic Ahmadreza Djalali and called for his immediate release from custody due to the critical condition of his health.
UN experts urge Iran to release detained academic Djalali nearing death
UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who is reportedly in a critical condition and near death after months of prolonged solitary confinement.
Ahmadreza Djalali nearing death in solitary confinement – torture must end now
UN human rights experts today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who is reportedly in a critical condition and near death after months of prolonged solitary confinement.
Iran’s smuggled barrels undermine OPEC efforts
The surge in smuggled Iranian crude oil barrels heading to China might hinder OPEC+ efforts to balance the global markets. This is not just due to the fact that these are illegal barrels and outside the international financial system
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claim missile hit Saudi oil facility
Houthi military spokesman says forces fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile; rebels claimed they hit the same plant in Jeddah last November in attack that sparked a fire
The Russia-Iran intelligence pact
The Islamic Republic of Iran has an extensive and complex intelligence apparatus. Its two most important intelligence institutions are the Intelligence Ministry and the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Security officials expect more Iranian attacks on Israeli ships
Israel’s security establishment believes Iran will attempt more attacks like Friday’s explosion on an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman, and that Israel will have to retaliate.
Confident in its impunity – Iran tried to leverage multiple hostages for the same terrorist
Last November, the Iranian judiciary moved one of its dual-national detainees into solitary confinement to suggest that the implementation of his death sentence was imminent. Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in 2016 after traveling back to his homeland from his residence in Sweden
Muslim leaders and government officials denounce Iran’s persecution of Baha’is
Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Baha’is in the farming village of Ivel in Iran. The ruling to allow Iranian authorities to confiscate the properties, clearly motivated by religious prejudice, was recently upheld in an appeals court and has left dozens of families internally displaced and economically impoverished.
