Public executions in Iran are often witnessed by children and are meted out for offenses such as homosexuality and drug possession. (Courtesy: Iran Human Rights)/ Iran lashed out at critics of its abysmal human rights record at a U.N. hearing Friday, blaming the West for Saturday’s execution of ...
Senior Iranian official defends case of hanging of woman * Western states call for freedom of expression and religion * U.S. urges release of Washington Post journalist (Adds quotes by activists and former lawyer of Jabbari) GENEVA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iran defended itself on Friday against ...
Public executions in Iran are often witnessed by children and are meted out for offenses such as homosexuality and drug possession. (Courtesy: Iran Human Rights)/ On the eve of Iran's defense of its human rights record Friday before a key United Nations panel, a lawyer for the woman executed in ...
Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights and advisor to the chief of the judiciary on international affairs, who is leading Iran's delegation, speaks during the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to ...
Iran has rejected Western criticism of its human rights record during a meeting of a UN human rights body in Geneva. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, lashed out on October 31 at what he called the West's attempts to "impose your lifestyle under ...
Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights and advisor to the chief of the judiciary on international affairs, who is leading Iran's delegation, speaks during the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to ...
Iran faced harsh criticism of its rights record Friday, with UN diplomats highlighting soaring numbers of executions and lamenting the recent hanging of a woman who murdered her attempted rapist./ But Iran hit back at the criticism, instead slamming countries trying to impose "specific ...
Iran defended its human rights record on Friday, striking back at the West for its criticism about a woman hanged for murder in an alleged rape case. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, was responding to calls from Western powers, including the ...
Disgraced former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells faces a second day of questioning at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal/ at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal as the lead campaigner in delivering justice for those wrongly convicted said he has ”no sympathy“ for ...
Naama, 19, was among seven young female conscripts taken hostage by Hamas gunmen who attacked Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on 7 October/ The brother of Israeli hostage Naama Levy has said the family’s decision to release new harrowing video of the moment his sister and other female ...
An Iowa Department of Transportation camera caught terrifying moments Tuesday for two truck drivers near The first tractor-trailer appears to have seen the tornado heading across the , and had pulled over. As the traffic cam starts shaking from the strong wind and rain blurs the image, a tanker ...
Female hostages who are Israeli soldiers Liri Albag and Agam Berger sit on the ground with their hands bound during their capture by Gazan militants at Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on October 7/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday ...
We asked the world to recognise us, now we're recognising Palestine/ Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state from 28 May. Spain and Ireland said the decision was not against Israel nor in favour of Hamas, but rather in support of peace. Israel ...
$275,000 401(k) in exchange for our $250,000 house./ “He thinks I could use the money from his 401(k) to either buy a house or use some as a down payment.” (Photo subjects are models.) - Getty Images/iStockphoto/ I am 61 and he is 51. In 2006, I left a job and used my 401(k) to pay off all of ...
Many countries say they will only recognise a Palestinian state as part of a long-term political solution/ As fighting and suffering continues in Gaza, and violence grows in the West Bank, prospects of the Palestinian people gaining their own state might seem further away than ever. to formally ...
Unrwa said food warehouses and distribution centres in eastern Rafah were inaccessible because of the Israeli military operation/ Food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has been suspended due to a lack of supplies and insecurity, the UN says. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, ...
Thousands of mourners attend the procession on Wednesday/ Iran’s supreme leader has presided over a funeral for the country’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers at Tehran University, where caskets carrying the ...
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said a two-state solution was the "only alternative"; while Ireland's PM Simon Harris said the decision would help create a "peaceful future"/ The Belgian PM (L) has been highly critical of Israel's military operation in Gaza Image caption: The Belgian ...