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Since anti-regime demonstrations erupted following the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, Iranian authorities have executed four young men and sentenced several others to death on charges relating to the protest movement. FRANCE 24 profiles some of the people executed or on death row in Iran’s latest state-sponsored…

Amnesty International UK condemned Iran for having ‘pitifully little respect’ for the right to life.

Jerusalem (AFP) - Bolstered Israeli restrictions against flying the Palestinian flag are "a shameless attempt to legitimise racism", rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Some Australian MPs are publicly backing young Iranians facing the death sentence, hoping the negative publicity for the regime might stave off imminent executions.

Migration, drug trafficking, manufacturing and trade are set to top the agenda of US-Canada-Mexico meetings.

More than 19,000 people have been arrested since protests erupted in Iran in mid-September 2022. Human rights organisations say that dozens of them have been killed in secret detention centres. But security forces are trying to cover up these deaths by threatening family members into silence or staging the deaths…

Protesters gathered in front of a prison in Karaj to stop the execution of two men linked to Iran’s demonstrations.

The Iranian government is cracking down on the anti-regime protesters who erupted in civil unrest after morality police fatally beat a 22-year-old Kurdish woman called Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab "improperly"

Paris (AFP) - Iran drew international condemnation on Saturday as it executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member in November during unprecedented protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody.