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EU designates 8 Iranian senior officials and 3 prisons over human rights abuses
- Monday, April 12, 2021
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The EU has adopted Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/584 and Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2021/585, which designate 8 officials and 3 prisons under the EU’s sanctions regime concerning serious human rights abuses in Iran. They have been listed over their roles in the “violent response” to demonstrations held in...
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Exclusive: EU set to sanction more Iranians for rights abuses, first since 2013, diplomats say
- Tuesday, March 30, 2021
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BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union is set to agree to sanction several Iranian individuals on Wednesday for human rights abuses, the first such measures since 2013, three EU diplomats said. FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning...
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Iran: Women and girls treated as second class citizens, reforms urgently needed, says UN expert
- Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 each year and continuing entrenched discrimination...
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Iran: increased executions are a manifestation of the regime’s impasse
- Saturday, February 20, 2021
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Iran, February 20, 2021—On Wednesday, Iranian authorities executed seven prisoners in Gohardasht prison, Karaj. Among the executed prisoners was a 42-year-old mother of two. On Monday, February 15, the regime carried out two other executions in Birjand. Two days earlier, a prisoner was hanged in Meshginshahr. Therefore, in only...
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