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Human Rights Watch Calls on Saudi Arabia to Halt Eight Imminent Executions

TEHRAN (defapress)- Human Rights Watch called on Saudi Arabia to stop the imminent execution of eight men charged with activities related to a wave of anti-government protests while they were under the age of 18.
News ID: 82342    Publish Date : 2020/10/21

EU Urged to Skip Saudi G20 Summit over Human Rights Violations

TEHRAN (defapress)- The European Parliament strongly urged the European Union to skip an upcoming Saudi-hosted virtual summit of the Group of 20 countries in light of Riyadh’s human rights abuses.
News ID: 82236    Publish Date : 2020/10/09

Human Rights Groups Slam UN for Taking Saudi-Led Coalition Off Blacklist

TEHRAN (defapress) – US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen off a global blacklist of parties whose actions have harmed children in conflict, a move that drew immediate protests from human rights groups.
News ID: 81335    Publish Date : 2020/06/16

Russia Says US Human Rights Report Uses ‘Pseudo-Documentary’ Data

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Russian section of the US Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights uses ‘pseudo-documentary’ information and Russophobic cliches, the Russian foreign ministry said, commenting on the report.
News ID: 76204    Publish Date : 2019/03/15

Rights Groups Condemn Riyadh over Trial of Women Activists

TEHRAN (defapress) – Rights groups denounced Saudi Arabia Saturday over its decision to put jailed women activists on trial after holding them for nearly a year without charges.
News ID: 75932    Publish Date : 2019/03/02

Interior minister:

US has no belief in human rights

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Minister of Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Thursday that the coinciding of the US-led anti-Iran conference in Warsaw with the terrorist attack in Zahedan shows the US neither believes in human rights nor is it in the least committed to the international regulations.
News ID: 75602    Publish Date : 2019/02/14

FM Zarif:

US Continues Violating Blacks’ Rights

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the detention and imprisonment of Press TV news presenter shows the US is still violating “the civil rights of black men and women”.
News ID: 75120    Publish Date : 2019/01/22

Larijani slams US on double standards regarding human rights

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani rebuked the arrest of Marzieh Hashemi, a US-born anchor working for Iran's Press TV, saying such tricky measures prove Washington’s double standards regarding human rights .
News ID: 75084    Publish Date : 2019/01/20

Human Rights Official:

Iran Greatest Democracy in West Asia

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iran is the most important democracy in West Asia and the most developed country of the Middle East in terms of science and technology, Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said, adding that these features of the country are the main reasons of animosities towards Tehran.
News ID: 74264    Publish Date : 2018/12/11

Top official:

Iran most capable in human rights

TEHRAN(defapress)– Iran is most capable in human rights ; that's why the enemy targets the country there, said the secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights.
News ID: 74246    Publish Date : 2018/12/10

Iran’s UN Envoy:

US Sanctions Violate International Civil Rights

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations deplored the new US sanctions against Tehran as a blatant violation of a UN Security Council Resolution, saying they also flout the international conventions and principles of civilian rights .
News ID: 73528    Publish Date : 2018/11/06

Iran:

West Not Qualified to Opine on Human Rights

TEHRAN (defapress)- Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted the western states for supporting the terrorists and aggressors in the Middle-East region, and said they are not qualified to speak about human rights .
News ID: 69117    Publish Date : 2018/03/10

Zarif:

‘Infiltrators’ Not to Be Allowed to Sabotage Iranian People’s Rights

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said “infiltrators” would not be allowed to sabotage Iranian people’s rights through violence and destruction amid protests against high prices in the country.
News ID: 67879    Publish Date : 2018/01/03