Archive for April, 2012
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Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes
BBC: International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war. Taylor, 64, has been on trial in […]
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Obama announces crackdown on Iran and Syria’s cyber oppressors
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and entities who use technology to help authoritarian regimes in Iran and Syria suppress their people. “Technologies should be in […]
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Rights body slams Iran Press TV for airing “forced confessions”
13 April 2012- In a report published today, the human rights group Justice for Iran (JFI) accused Iran’s government-owned Press TV of televising confession obtained by force form political prisoners […]
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Radical or Cosmetic; How Would Be Khamenei’s Fatwa about Stoning?/ Shadi Sadr
Iran has finally overcome its two big predicaments with the international community in terms of human rights, though in the Islamic Republic’s style. Recently, Iran’s Judiciary spokesman announced that stoning […]
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Witness Testimony of Marina Moradi Bakht (Nemat)
Name and Surname: Marina Moradi Bakht (Nemat) Date and Place of Birth: 1965, Tehran Date of Arrest: January 1981 Accusation: Collaboration with Leftist Groups Date of Release: Middle of 1984
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