More journalists than ever are languishing in prisons across the world as countries like Turkey, Iran and China step up terror and other anti-state charges to silence critical press, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday.
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‘Press Iran over human rights record,’ opposition tells international lawmakers in Quebec
A group of Iranian opposition figures have called on delegates at the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly to press Iran to address its poor human rights record, in particular the continued imprisonment of former lawmakers in the country’s jails.
Iranian currency hits record low
The Iranian currency hit a record low on September 9 with street traders offering the dollar at 24,430 rials. According to ISNA, only yesterday the rate was at 22,280 rials to a dollar.
Iranian currency hits record low after president rejects raise in interest rates
Iran’s national currency fell by six percent in a single day Wednesday after the president refused to sign off on a move to raise bank interest rates, state news agencies reported.
Iran’s Currency Hits Record Low
Iran’s rial has hit a new record low against the U.S. dollar, just days after the U.S. enforced new economic sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Western pressure, inflation send Iran’s rial to record low
(Reuters) – International sanctions imposed on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, coupled with high inflation and fear of a military strike by Israel, has led Iran’s currency to fall to its lowest-ever level against the U.S. dollar.
General Assembly voices concern over Iranian human rights record
UN News Centre – United Nations Member States today expressed deep concern at reports of human rights violations in Iran, including torture, the use of cruel punishments such as flogging and amputations and “pervasive gender inequality and violence against women,” and called on Tehran to strengthen its national human rights institutions.