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Female Bahraini Activist on Hunger Strike in Prison

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Bahraini human rights advocate, Ebtisam Al-Saegh, who was arrested on July 3 after security forces attacked her house, has gone on hunger strike since Friday night.
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6 Murderers Escape ‘Eye for an Eye’ Punishment in Iran

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Six men who had committed murder in separate cases in Iran have managed to obtain consent from the victims' parents and escaped the gallows.
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45 Foreign Ambassadors Tour Tehran’s Evin Prison

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The Iranian Judiciary has taken dozens of foreign ambassadors residing in Tehran to a tour of Evin Prison to prove that the allegations raised against Iranian prisons are wrong and politically-motivated.
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How US Media Cover Same Tragedies in Opposite Ways

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A political commentator has weighed in on the US double standards in reaction to two similar tragic incidents: the USSR’s shoot-down of a Korean airliner, and the US downing of an Iranian passenger plane.
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Iran Not to Forgive Perpetrators of Attack on Iran Air Flight 655

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Iran’s foreign ministry has released a statement to mark the 29th anniversary of the downing of an Iranian commercial airliner by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser back in 1988.
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Iran Slams France for Double Standard on Terrorism

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Iran has strongly criticized the French government for allowing the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to hold its annual gathering in Paris.
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Telegram Not Asked to Reveal Iranian Users’ Info: CEO

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The CEO of Telegram messaging app says the Iranian government has never asked the company to provide it with the private information of Iranian users.
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Iran Condemns Any Use, Threat to Use WMD: FM

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Iran’s foreign minister says unlike the hypocritical and double-standard policies of the US and other so-called advocates of human rights, the Islamic Republic of Iran vehemently condemns any use or threat to use weapons of mass destruction including chemical weapons.
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‘Bigoted’ Muslim Ban Not to Make US Safer: Iran FM

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Iranian foreign minister says the ban US President Donald Trump has imposed on Muslim people is a ‘bigoted’ policy and will not make the US a safer place.
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40,000 Inmates in Iran Granted Amnesty in One Year

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Iran's Judiciary spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’I, says nearly 40,000 prisoners in Iran have been granted amnesty in a one-year period.
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Hackers Use Bahrain FM’s Twitter Account to Share Anti-Saudi Posts

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The verified twitter account of Bahrain’s foreign minister was temporarily hacked by an anonymous group named Al-Mokhtar Brigade, who posted tweets against the Saudi and Bahraini regimes’ crimes.
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22 Int’l Bodies Call for UNSC’s Action to End Yemen Crisis

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Several international organizations in a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have pointed to the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, and called for the world body’s action to bring about an immediate ceasefire.
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Iran to Provide Social Security for Foreign Nationals

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An Iranian official declared that immigrants and refugees who have a work permit and reside in Iran will be covered by the Social Security Organisation.
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EU Turning Blind Eye to Realities of Civil Rights in Iran: Spokesman

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed as politically-motivated the European Union’s extension of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over human rights, saying the bloc has turned a blind eye to the realities of civil rights in Iran.
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Iranian MPs to Question Four Ministers about Media Activists’ Arrest

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An Iranian reformist MP says a number of lawmakers seek to question four ministers about the recent detention of several social media activists and administrators of Telegram channels in Iran.
Media Wire

Iran Slams UN for Renewing Human Rights Rapporteur’s Mandate

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Iran has condemned as “selective and spiteful” the UN Human Rights Council's resolution to renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying it was a politically-motivated move by a few countries abusing UN mechanisms.
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Iranian Charity Brings Smile to Faces of Immigrant Family

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An Iranian charitable NGO provides help for a disadvantaged Pakistani immigrant family residing in southern Tehran.
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UN Says Violence against Syrian Children Hits Rock Bottom in 2016

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The previous year was the worst year for Syria’s children in terms of violence in the war-ravaged country, the UN's children's agency said Monday as the conflict nears its seventh year.
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MP Slams UN Report on Iran’s Human Rights Conditions

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An Iranian lawmaker condemned a recent report by the UN special rapporteur on human rights conditions in Iran, and described it as a way to blackmail the Islamic Republic.
Europe

Foreign Delegations Must Respect Iran’s Laws in Their Visits

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An Iranian lawmaker criticised the anti-Iran statements made after a Swedish delegation’s official visit to Iran, stating that foreigners should act based on Iranian regulations if they have chosen to visit the country.
Europe

Austrian University Urged to Call Off Speech by Israeli Genocide Advocate

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More than 350 activists and scholars from universities around the world, and a Jewish group in Germany, have called on the University of Vienna’s law faculty to cancel a lecture by the Israeli regime’s justice minister Ayelet Shaked.
Human Rights

Iranian Women Often Don’t Report Sexual Abuse

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Despite certain regulations on violence against Iranian women, the ones who suffer sexual abuse often don’t disclose it due to a lack of social support.
Human Rights

Renowned Iranian Artist Holds Painting Workshop for Child Labourers

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Kambiz Derambakhsh, an acclaimed Iranian graphic designer and cartoonist, has held a painting workshop for Iranian working children.
Americas

Trump’s New Sanctions Endanger Lives of Iranian People

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By imposing sanctions on the export of pharmaceuticals to Iran, Trump administration is trampling human rights and threatening Iranian lives, an Iranian Parliament member said.
Foreign Policy

Judiciary Official Says Iran Should Not Reciprocate Trump’s Ban by Doing Same Thing

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An Iranian Judiciary human rights official rejected as not good the notion that the Islamic Republic should impose a visa ban on American citizens in response to US President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban on seven Muslim countries, including Iran.
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