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Iran

July 22, 2018

Crackdown on student activists in Iran

Iranian authorities have increased their crackdown on student protesters with prison terms and restrictions on their peaceful activities, says Human Rights Watch.
July 17, 2018

WMA condemns complicity of doctors in Iranian executions

The complicity of state-affiliated doctors in Iran in facilitating the execution of young prisoners has been condemned by the World Medical Association.
June 29, 2018

UN condemns execution of juvenile offenders in Iran

Four juvenile offenders have been executed in Iran since the beginning of 2018.
June 10, 2018

Global Catholic community says US rejection of Iran deal is a tragedy

Catholic organisations say US withdrawal from the Iran deal "is a tragedy of monumental proportions".
May 16, 2018

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: 'shocking' that another criminal case may be opened

Amnesty International has reacted to reports that the jailed UK-Iranian dual-national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be facing fresh charges in Iran.
May 14, 2018

Warmongering versus faith as Trump ditches Iran deal and moves US embassy

President Donald Trump has denounced Iran and withdrawn from an agreement aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons.
May 1, 2018

Iranian authorities 'bulldozing mass grave sites to destroy evidence'

New report says the Iranian authorities are destroying mass grave sites from 1988 massacre which saw thousands of political prisoners secretly killed.
April 13, 2018

Global executions fall, but large numbers given death penalty for drugs, says Amnesty

Last year saw a small drop in the overall number of executions around the world, large numbers of death sentences were carried out for non-violent crimes such as drug offences.
February 20, 2018

Protest for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as Iranian minister set to visit UK

Campaigners will protest on behalf of the jailed UK-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe outside the Iranian Embassy in London on 21 February ahead of an expected visit to the UK of a senior Iranian minister.
February 14, 2018

WMA appeals for immediate release of jailed physician

The World Medical Association has again appealed to the Iranian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally an Iranian-born Swedish resident specialist in emergency medicine, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced to death for the charge of “corruption on earth”.