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Netherlands raps US-led push to oust Iran from UN Commission on the Status of Women
Dec 13, 2022 09:19The Netherlands has censured the United States-led political attempt to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), emphasizing that the world body should be a venue for all members of the international community to reach a consensus.
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Iran slams political statement by US, allies on women’s access to online platforms
Dec 13, 2022 08:48Iran’s High Council for Human Rights has denounced a meddlesome and politically-motivated statement issued by the United States and eight other countries over Iranian women’s access to online platforms, saying it is definitely “doomed to failure.”
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Rights groups urge US lawmakers to support Yemen war powers resolution
Dec 08, 2022 11:50More than a hundred human rights organizations have called on US lawmakers to support a war powers resolution aimed at stopping Washington’s military involvement in the ongoing Saudi war on Yemen, which has entered its eighth year.
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Ban on Press TV an effort to silence ‘voice of resistance’: Analyst
Dec 08, 2022 10:05Press TV is the voice of the oppressed, a news network working to expose the crimes and double standards of the West against free nations, says an analyst.
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Saudi Arabia hands down death sentences to six more political dissidents: Rights organization
Dec 05, 2022 09:58A human rights organization says the Saudi Judiciary has sentenced six more prisoners of conscience to death as the kingdom employs secret trials and controversial rulings as a tool to further crack down on political prisoners and possibly eliminate them.
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Saudi Arabia detains wife, daughter of jailed dissident as crackdown widens
Nov 26, 2022 10:59Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested the wife and daughter of a jailed dissident, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against political opponents, scholars, human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners widens in the kingdom.
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'Strategic mistake': Iran strongly condemns UNHRC resolution as politically-motivated
Nov 25, 2022 04:22Iran’s Foreign Ministry has vehemently condemned the meeting and resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council, noting that “multifaceted political goals” are behind these anti-Iranian measures.
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Iran lambastes West for political use of human rights
Nov 25, 2022 03:50Iran's foreign minister took a swipe at the US and certain European governments for exploiting human rights to fulfill their political purposes.
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Iranian official urges Germany to end deceptive human rights policy
Nov 25, 2022 03:32Decrying the German foreign minister’s “deceptive” statement before a “fraudulent” special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Iran, an Iranian Judiciary official called on Berlin to end its forgery policy in the field of human rights.
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‘Some Western states incited public emotions, stoked riots, terrorist attacks in Iran’
Nov 24, 2022 11:36Iran has strongly condemned “some Western states” for stoking riots and acts of violence in the country through inciting public emotions, calling their instrumental use of human rights “disgraceful.”