Alireza Akbari: The British-Iranian Executed by Tehran
Jan 14 (Reuters) - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday, after sentencing the former Iranian deputy defence minister to death on charges of spying for Britain.
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Canada Imposes New Iran Sanctions Over Human Rights
Oct 13 (Reuters) - Canada imposed new sanctions on Iran on Thursday in response to the government's human rights abuses and destabilizing actions, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The new sanctions list includes three entities and 17...
G7 Foreign Ministers Discuss Iran – Statement
Nov 4 (Reuters-KL) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations discussed how best to coordinate further support for Ukraine at a meeting in Germany on Thursday and Friday.
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Iran Hangs Swedish-Iranian It Convicted Over Attack That Killed 25 People
DUBAI, May 6 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, the Iranian judiciary said.
The...
Iranians Among Those on Migrant Boats As Shipwreck Death Toll Hits 63
By Remo Casilli and Alvise Armellini
CROTONE, Italy, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Rescuers recovered four more bodies on Monday, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in stormy weather off southern...
Blinken Says U.S. ‘Appalled’ by Execution of British-Iranian National
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States is appalled by Iran's execution of Alireza Akbari, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, vowing that Tehran's abuses in its crackdown of widespread demonstrations will not go unpunished.
"We...
Crackdown on Protesters Claims Hundreds of Victims in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
Kayhan Life and Kayhan London Staff
As Iran entered a fourth day of a nationwide internet blackout, evidence from different parts of the country pointed to a far deadlier crackdown on protesters than authorities have...
Nobel Prize Nominee Masih Alinejad Interviewed by Kayhan Life: Q&A
By Natasha Phillips
Nobel Prize Nominee and human rights activist Masih Alinejad was interviewed Thursday, Feb. 10
Below is a Q&A of the in-person interview in Washington.
The following is a Q&A of the conversation with Kayhan...
Iran Sentences British-Iranian Aid Worker to One Year in Jail, Lawyer Says
DUBAI, April 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian court sentenced British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in jail, just weeks after she finished a prior five-year sentence, a decision Britain called "inhumane".
When Zaghari-Ratcliffe was...
Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Jail Barred From Leaving Iran-Son
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - The wife of an Iranian-Canadian environmental activist who died in prison in Tehran last month was barred from leaving Iran, one of her sons said, in an...
