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UN condemns Saudi Arabia mass execution

March 14, 2022

Bachelet said war crimes may have been committed if people were beheaded following court cases that do not offer proper fair trial guarantees.

Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it had executed a record 81 people in one day for terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number killed in the whole of 2021 and sparking criticism from rights activists.

All had been “found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes”, the official Saudi Press Agency reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Islamic State terror group, Al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Houthi rebel forces or “other terrorist organisations”.

“I condemn Saudi Arabia’s mass execution on Saturday of 81 people on terrorism-related charges,” Bachelet announced in a statement.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that among those beheaded, 41 belonged to the Shiite minority, and had taken part in anti-government protests in 2011 and 2012. A further seven were Yemenis and one was a Syrian national.

“Our monitoring indicates that some of those executed were sentenced to death following trials that did not meet fair trial and due process guarantees, and for crimes that did not appear to meet the most serious crimes threshold, as required under international law,” Bachelet added.

“I am also concerned that some of the executions appear to be linked to the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen,” she continued.

“Implementation of death sentences following trials that do not offer the required fair trial guarantees is prohibited by international human rights and humanitarian law and may amount to a war crime,” she added. The Saudi authorities should return the bodies of those executed to their families, the former Chilean president said.

“I am concerned that Saudi legislation contains an extremely broad definition of terrorism, including non-violent acts that supposedly ‘endanger national unity’ or ‘undermine the state’s reputation’,” she said, adding, “This risks criminalising people exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.”

Bachelet stated that Saudi Arabia was among 38 countries that continues to implement the death penalty. The wealthy Persian Gulf country has one of the world’s highest execution rates, and has often carried out previous death sentences by beheading.

“I call on the Saudi authorities to halt all executions, immediately establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and commute the death sentences against those on death row,” Bachelet underlined.

“I also urge the Saudi authorities to bring the country’s counter-terrorism laws fully into line with international standards,” she underscored.

Iran rights body denounces S Arabia’s mass execution, calls for probe

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

It said in a statement on Monday that Saudi Arabia has once again committed widespread violations of human rights and abuse of power in its territory.

“The mass execution of 81 people, including eight Yemeni citizens and 40 residents of Qatif region, has cast serious doubt on the charges pressed against them, turning it into a political and ideological score settling that would be described as arbitrary execution,” part of the statement read.

Iran’s High Council for Human Rights blasted the inhumane mass execution and called on all regional and international human rights authorities to pay attention to it.

Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council are expected to investigate the different aspects of this mass execution away from any politicization… and double standards, the Iranian rights body said.

It added that special rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council particularly the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions are expected to immediately carry out a comprehensive investigation into this episode.

“In this regard, the High Council for Human Rights expresses it deep regret over the silence and inaction of countries and international organizations, that claim to be advocates of human rights, regarding such actions,” the statement read.

Yemeni forces make huge gains in country’s northwest

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

Yemen’s Al-Masirah channel cited the source as saying that the Yemeni forces made those gains in the city of Hardh.

Al-Masirah added that the Yemeni troops carried out a mopping-up operation that cleared Hardh and many surrounding villages of the Saudi mercenaries.

According to the military source, the offensive lasted 2 days and the Yemeni forces took control of 54 square kilometers while killing or wounding 500 Saudi forces and Sudanese mercenaries. He noted that the dead include 80 Sudanese and 15 Saudis.

Many other Saudi forces and Sudanese mercenaries were captured while huge amounts of arms and munitions were seized from the invaders during the fighting.

Hardh is highly important as it has a strategic route that links Yemen to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia and its allies attacked Yemen in March 2015 in hopes of removing the Ansarullah movement from power and restore fugitive former president Abd rabbuh Mansur Hadi in a short period of time.

According to the UN more than 377,000 people were killed directly or indirectly in the war with millions more internally displaced.

Iran FM advisor censures UN approach to Yemen ‘as biased’

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

Ali Asghar Khaji, senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister for special political affairs stated the UNSC was under the influence of considerations and political lobbying by the aggressor countries.

Khaji made the remark in a Monday phone conversation with Peter Semneby, Sweden’s special envoy for Yemen.

During the phone call, the senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister added this approach goes against the political process aimed at resolving the Yemen crisis and will increase mistrust between the warring sides more than ever before.

Khaji and Semneby further underlined the need to expand cooperation for the purpose of resolving the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen as soon as possible.

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a war against the Arab world’s most impoverished nation in March 2015.

The war has claimed more than 370,000 lives, directly and indirectly, the UN says, and has caused widespread suffering, with four fifths of Yemen’s 30 million people needing aid.

Iran Culture Ministry website hacked

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

The official website of the ministry and its affiliated sites were apparently taken down briefly during the hacking attack on Monday, and images of the leaders of anti-Iran terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) were displayed on them.

Officials of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance have been unavailable for comment and no explanation has been provided by the authorities in this regard.

Back in January, a number of Iranian television channels were briefly hacked in a similar way.

Iranian president condemns West’s silence on mass execution in Saudi Arabia

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

Raisi said the silence and inaction of the self-styled defenders of human rights with regard to the execution of innocents in Saudi Arabia is a sign of hypocrisy on the part of Western governments.

The Iranian president said this shows these self-proclaimed protectors of democracy only use the concept of human rights to achieve their political goals against independent countries.

Raisi urged international organizations and the free press to break their silence over the killings in Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom on Saturday executed 81 people, mostly for political reasons. Those executed include teens and young people. Convicts are executed in Saudi Arabia with one stroke of the sword.

While some rights groups condemn this as mediaeval, Western governments and the mainstream media impose a blackout on Riyadh’s dire rights record in this regard. Saudi Arabia is the West’s main oil supplier.

Iran receives 2.2mn doses of Astrazeneca shots donated by Germany

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

Customs Administration Spokesman Ruhollah Latifi said the latest batch took the total number of Astrazeneca shots received by Iran to over 18 million.

He said Iran has imported 158 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine since January last year.

“With the majority of people vaccinated, and domestic production in good shape, commercial imports of the vaccine have now stopped and the vaccines that have been imported in recent months are mostly donations,” Latifi explained.

Iran has used imported vaccine types and domestically manufactured shots in its national inoculation campaign which has considerably helped contain the outbreak.

The intensified vaccination drive has seen a total of over 145 million doses of vaccine administered in the Islamic Republic. Well over 56 million people in Iran have so far been fully vaccinated while more than 25,200,000 have received their booster jabs.

Tehran museum director removed after performer dives into artistic work

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

The performance dubbed “Silk Road Cat” involved acrobatics over the famous pond of the Museum of Contemporary Arts.

As a result of the performance, the artist doing the acrobatics hit the oil inside the pond, causing the oil to splash around. Following the incident, the director of the performance stopped short of an apology and simply published videos of the performance in cyberspace.

The museum also said on its Instagram account that hitting the oil was not part of the performance at all and that this happened only by accident.

Further inquiry showed the incident only caused some oil to splash around and that the work of art dubbed “Substance and Thought” created by a Japanese artist, was not damaged.

But critics called for the resignation of the director of the museum, which prompted the deputy minister of culture and Islamic guidance to replace Ehsan Aghaei with Ebadreza Eslami Koulaei.

Meanwhile, Reza Dabirinejad, a cultural researcher, criticized the decision to do the performance over the artistic work, saying such moves leads to a loss of public trust in the museum’s mission to protect its precious cultural artifacts.

Iran Russia ambassador: New alliance developing against US

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

He said it is necessary that Iranians get to know the New Russia, adding a weakness in Iran is that many people have little knowledge about Russia and the country’s capacities.

He said that’s also the case in Russia and that many Russians have no knowledge about Iran.

The Iranian ambassador to Moscow added that Russia has been trying to reassert its global role for the past two decades and it has stood up to American unilateralism.

Today, Jalali noted, a synergy is brewing worldwide against Western unilateralism and this means the world is finding common ground over the issue.

He said Iran and Russia must stand together in the Caucasus, Afghanistan and West Asia as neither of the two countries thinks of NATO’s eastward expansion as being in its national interest.

Covid-19 claims 114 more lives in Iran as Nowruz draws close

IFP Editorial Staff

March 14, 2022

The Health Ministry said on Monday that the total number of fatalities from the disease had surpassed 139,000.

It also registered more than 3,800 new cases of the disease. Iran has moved past the peak of its sixth Covid-19 wave which was triggered by a highly transmissible variant known as Omicron.

The relatively lower deaths in recent months has been largely attributed to an intensified vaccination campaign which has seen a total of over 145 million doses of vaccine administered in the Islamic Republic. Well over 56 million people in Iran have so far been fully vaccinated while more than 25,200,000 have received their booster jabs.

Iranian health officials say people who have received at least two doses of Covid-19 vaccine are allowed to take trips during the upcoming holidays. They have urged the people to observe health protocols to prevent another surge in Covid-19 cases.