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Europe’s anti-Iran human rights statement typical of colonial mindset: Envoy
Sep 27, 2020 03:27Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva has lashed out at European states for making baseless accusations about the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying slandering others is in line with certain Western countries' colonial mentality and their delusions of grandeur.
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Iran: EU statement on its human rights situation ‘selective, unacceptable’
Sep 25, 2020 16:47Iran has dismissed as ‘unacceptable, baseless and selective’ a joint statement by European countries on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic, saying it is in fundamental contrast with approaches to promote the issue globally.
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UN human rights expert calls on Saudi Arabia to free women activists
Jul 09, 2020 11:43A United Nations special rapporteur has called on the member states of the UN Human Rights Council to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists, four months before the Saudi regime is to hold the 2020 G20 Riyadh summit.
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Yemen slams removal of Saudi-led coalition from UN blacklist of child-killers as ‘ineffaceable crime’
Jun 16, 2020 07:48A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has sharply censured the United Nations over its decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist for killing and injuring children in the conflict-plagued Arab country, saying the crime that cannot be effaced from its record.
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Protests reveal US insincerity regarding human rights: Iranian official
Jun 11, 2020 03:00Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said the wave of popular protests in the US has revealed the Washington government’s true face.
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Over 180 human rights organizations urge ICC to investigate Israeli crimes
Apr 30, 2020 11:27More than 180 Palestinian, regional and international human rights campaigners and organizations have called upon the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, to investigate the crimes being perpetrated by Zionist regime forces in the occupied territories.
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UNHCR voices concern for Rohingya refugees on boats amid coronavirus emergency
Apr 23, 2020 13:53The United Nations refugee agency has voiced mounting concern over a “grave immediate risk” to persecuted Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled Myanmar by boats amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran’s Judiciary dismisses UN rights report on prison furloughs amid virus outbreak
Apr 21, 2020 10:20The Iranian Judiciary has dismissed as politically-motivated a United Nations human rights report that suggests Iranian prisoners face discrimination when it comes to receiving furloughs during a new coronavirus outbreak, saying Iran’s performance in dealing with the issue — compared to that of the West — has been “exemplary.”
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Iran rejects ‘invalid’ US report on its human rights situation
Mar 13, 2020 11:38Iran has rejected the US State Department’s annual report on its human rights situation, saying Washington is in no position to give other countries prescription on the issue of human rights.
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HRW urges Morocco to release prisoners of conscience
Feb 05, 2020 12:47Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Morocco to release at least 10 people who have been arrested and prosecuted in recent months as the "did nothing but peacefully express critical opinions".