Thursday, November 14, 2024

UK House of Lords Marks Mahsa Amini Death With Human Rights Conference

By Natasha Phillips A conference focusing on human rights violations in Iran was held on Sep.18 in the UK House of Lords by Forward Strategy, a new UK-based consultancy promoting social justice. The event, chaired by...

Protests Continue in Iran as Mahsa Amini Anniversary Passes

DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman's death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The...
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DC Protesters Gather Outside the White House to Remember Mahsa Amini’s Death in Iran

REUTERS/KL: Hundreds chanted slogans denouncing the Iranian government and calling on the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to increase sanctions on Iran. Among them was Navid Mohebbi of The National Union For Democracy...

Iran Guards Detain Dual National for ‘Organising Unrest and Sabotage’

DUBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organise unrest and sabotage", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened security to thwart planned protests a year...

Iran’s Security Forces Out in Force a Year After Mahsa Amini’s Death

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces cracked down on protests in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday and briefly detained the father of Mahsa Amini, a year after the young woman's death in custody...

Women Set Fire to Prison Ward Near Tehran – IRNA

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Prison guards on Saturday put out a fire started by female inmates in a prison ward near the capital Tehran, Iran's official IRNA news agency. It said female convicts on death row protesting...
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IRGC Forces Detain Mahsa Amini’s Father on Anniversary of Her Death

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces briefly detained the father of Mahsa Amini on Saturday and spread across mainly Kurdish areas of the country, a year after her death in police custody set off some...

Thousands March in Brussels on Anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s Death

BRUSSELS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Iranian emigres marched in Brussels on Friday, the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman whose death in the custody of Iran's...
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Israeli Intelligence Minister Urges UK to Declare IRGC Terrorist Organization

By Kayhan Life Staff Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel was a guest speaker in the UK House of Lords on Sept. 7 at an event organized by Lord Stuart Polak CBE to honor the memory...

Heavy Security in Iranian Cities on Anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s Death in Custody

DUBAI, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces deployed in the hometown of Mahsa Amini in anticipation of a flare-up in unrest marking this weekend's first anniversary of her death in morality police custody, witnesses, social...