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7 months ago

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Iran Executes Two Men for Desecrating Quran on Social Media, Prompting Outrage

News 18

Iran on Monday hanged two men on charges of spreading blasphemy on social media, prompting US condemnation and accusations from Amnesty International the Islamic republic has reached a “new low” in a spree of executions. “They were hanged solely for social media posts in a grotesque assault on the rights to life and freedom of religion.” In Washington, State Department …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Brazen in the face of protests, Iran has executed 55 people so far

Firstpost

Experts say security forces have shown “a flagrant disregard for human life,” after a protest movement against the Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has subsided since November last year. Paris: In a move that is considered to create fear as protests shake the country, Iranian authorities have executed 55 people this year, said Norway-based Iran Human Rights, adding that …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Scores of protesters in Iran facing potential capital punishment; 11 already sentenced to death

India Today

Hundreds of protesters in Iran are facing charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights has said. According to a report, as many as 100 detainees are facing potential capital punishment, including at least 11 already sentenced to death. “By issuing death sentences and executing some of them, want to make people go home,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was …

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2 years ago

Will a Nazi poet's Christmas carol remain in book of hymns?

Hindustan Times

Christianity and its customs were a thorn in the side of the National Socialists. New Christmas carols during the Nazi era Entirely new Christmas carols were also composed during the Nazi era, including the strongly propagated song "Hohe Nacht der klaren Sterne". Among the newly written Christmas carols during the Nazi era was the piece "Wisst ihr noch, wie es …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Iran protesters rally again despite Guards order to stand down

The Hindu

Iranian protesters rallied again Sunday, defying an order by the powerful Revolutionary Guards to stop the demonstrations—now in their seventh week—sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Students gathered overnight and Sunday across Iran, even after Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had warned demonstrators: “Do not come to the streets!” Amini, 22, died in …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Iran protests: Security forces open fire at anti-hijab protestors in latest crackdown

Firstpost

The crack of gunfire interrupted demonstrators’ chants in the cities of Isfahan and Karaj and in Amini’s hometown Saqez, in videos shared by two Norway-based human rights organisations Tehran : Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protests Wednesday over Mahsa Amini’s death in a crackdown that rights groups say has already cost at least 108 lives with many …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Concern mounts at 'lethal' Iran crackdown on protests

The Hindu

The United Nations and rights groups expressed concern on Tuesday over what activists described as a lethal crackdown in Iran against protests over the death of a young woman after her arrest by Tehran's notorious morality police. New York-based Human Rights Watch said that witness accounts and videos circulating on social media "indicate that authorities are using teargas to disperse …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Chandrakant Lahariya | Monkeypoxâ€™s challenge: Itâ€™s also an opportunity

Deccan Chronicle

On July 23, the World Health Organisation declared the monkeypox disease as a “public health emergency of international concern”. However, monkeypox was the first and only time that the IHR emergency committee had not advised yet the WHO director-general, who decided to designate it as PHEIC and is fully empowered to do so. This is also the first time that …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Pandemic The Apocalypse(Laws To Rescue)

Live Law

Wash your hands, stay inside the house, quarantine yourself and save yourselves and others life. Public Health Act is also one of the law which prevails at international level to look after the pandemic and according to the entailment of the country or world during the pandemic the WHO also from time to time issues certain guidelines as per the …

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