Amnesty International says courage shown by rights protesters during the past year has been matched by an “endemic failure of leadership” from local and international authorities.
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Six-nation group tries to defuse tensions over Iran nuclear programme
World powers including US and China present package to Iran and call for halt to uranium production at underground site.
Leaders guilty of rights abuses banned from Olympics
LONDON (AFP) — World leaders and politicians guilty of human rights abuses will be banned from entering Britain for the 2012 London Olympics, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
While pointing finger at Bahrain, Iran uses culture ministry to interrogate journalists
During the Universal Periodic Review of the human rights situation in Bahrain by the UN Human Rights Council two days ago in Geneva, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s delegation called on the Bahraini authorities to “free all political prisoners, put a stop to arbitrary arrests of government opponents and end the impunity reigning in the […]
Female workers paid less, but face greater hardship
Though paid less than their male co-workers, Iranian women have to deal with a tougher working environment, according to a leading labour-affairs expert.
Protests over lake bring violent response
Reports from Iran indicate that tension has gripped the northwestern cities of Tabriz and Oroumiyeh, one day after protests against government inaction about the drying of Lake Oroumiyeh turned violent with police intervention.
Iran, World Powers Hold Nuclear Meeting In Baghdad
Representatives of Iran and six world powers are meeting in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to try to find a way out of the international impasse over Iran’s nuclear program.
New Wave Of Blocking Gonabadi Dervishes’s Blogs:”Bandar Abbas’s Dervishes Weblog” Was Filtered For The Sixteenth Time
“Bandar Abbas’s dervishes weblog”, one of the oldest personal blog that is belong to the Gonabadi dervishes, was filtered for the sixteenth times .
Iran Upbeat Over Nuclear Talks
Iranian state television has quoted the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, and Iran’s lead negotiator, Saeed Jalili, as saying that they had held “intensive” and “very useful” talks in Tehran.
Iranian political prisoner dies in jail
An Iranian political prisoner at Rejai Shahr Prison in Karaj has died in jail, and a preliminary examination points to a cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of death.