Iran: more

The UN condemned the human rightssituation in Iran. By a vote of 78 to 45, with 59 abstentions, the UN General Assembly confirmed a resolution that expressed “deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations".
The resolution specifically expressed concern over Iran’s “intensified crackdown on human rights defenders and reports of excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, unfair trials and allegations of torture,” as well as its “pervasive gender inequality and violence against women,” and its discrimination against minorities, including members of the Baha'i Faith.
source: news.bahai.org


Last Monday, is Baha’i Roya Ghanabri, the sister of Omid Ghanbari, arrested in Sari. 11 security agents raided and searched the house of her father and father-in-law and said that she was summoned to appear for questioning and she also had to deliver the clothes of Roya’s brother Omid.
source: HRHI



The lawyer from filmmaker Jafar Panahi announced to appeal the sentence of his client.
Panahi is sentenced to six years in prison, and to “20 years’ ban on social rights such as making films, writing any type of screen play, traveling abroad, and interviewing with media and national and international publications.
He was charged with assembly and collusion and propagation against the regime.
source: iranhumanrights.org


USA expanded the economic sanctions against Iran.
It added two banks, an insurance company, a freight forwarder, and a state-owned shipper, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines to the blacklist.
These companies are all linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
source: rferl.org


humanrightsviolations report part 2, week of 13 December.


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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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