Tags - Human Rights
Amnesty:
Women activists detained by Saudi Arabia for almost a year face "bogus" charges, including contacting foreign media, human rights campaigners and international organisations, Amnesty International announced.
News ID: 443935 Publish Date : 2019/03/15
Human Rights:
It is unfortunate to hear that European Union ambassadors have decided to leave sanctions imposed on a number of Iranian individuals for alleged human rights abuses in place for another year.
News ID: 443882 Publish Date : 2019/03/13
Saudi Arabia is to be censured for the first time at the UN Human Rights Council over its dark record of violating human rights, particularly for detention of women’s rights activists and the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
News ID: 443783 Publish Date : 2019/03/06
UN Experts:
Saudi Arabia is using its counterterrorism laws to silence activists in violation of international law guaranteeing freedom of speech, United Nations human rights experts stated.
News ID: 443780 Publish Date : 2019/03/06
Tehran rapped new UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Javaid Rehman for his propaganda against Iran, and stressed once again that designation of a special rapporteur for the country is not justified legally and rationally.
News ID: 443702 Publish Date : 2019/03/03
The Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Youth for Human Rights blasted the brutal beheading of a six-year-old Saudi boy in Medina, urging the world activists to reveal the real face of Wahhabi criminals to prevent repetition of such crimes.
News ID: 443500 Publish Date : 2019/02/14
Amnesty:
Myanmar's military is shelling villages and preventing civilians from getting food and humanitarian help, amid an intensifying crackdown on the rebel Arakan Army in the restive Northwestern state of Rakhine that has pushed thousands from their homes, Amnesty International said.
News ID: 443464 Publish Date : 2019/02/12
NGO:
Since 2000, Israel has destroyed roughly 35 percent of the farmland in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian rights group reported on Tuesday.
News ID: 443138 Publish Date : 2019/01/24
A prominent Saudi cleric dies at a hospital in the port city of Jeddah, where he had been transferred from detention after a reported poisoning that had rendered him brain-dead.
News ID: 443116 Publish Date : 2019/01/23
An independent human rights group says it has documented the arrest of more than 5,000 prisoners of conscience in addition to 200 victims of excessive use of force, murder and torture in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists.
News ID: 443082 Publish Date : 2019/01/20
There is an explanation as to why the United States continues to support Saudi Arabia’s war and says the Saudis and their coalition partners don’t have to answer to the suffering they inflict on the besieged people of Yemen.
News ID: 442858 Publish Date : 2019/01/06
Activist:
Bahrain’s decision to uphold a five-year prison sentence against prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab proves that the Al Khalifah regime is unable to advocate human rights, says an activist.
News ID: 442773 Publish Date : 2019/01/01
Bahrain's high court has upheld a five-year jail term against prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab despite calls from rights groups to release him.
News ID: 442761 Publish Date : 2019/01/01
Several Palestinians suffocated by tear gas as Israeli forces suppressed Palestinians who gathered in front of the Israeli Ofer prison in solidarity with prominent Palestinian human rights activist Abdullah Abu Rahmeh.
News ID: 442668 Publish Date : 2018/12/27
Human Rights Official:
Rasa - 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: 442045 Publish Date : 2018/12/12
Erdogan:
Rasa - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the ongoing "yellow vests" protest movement reveals Europe’s failure in democracy, human rights and freedom, speaking at a rally in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
News ID: 441989 Publish Date : 2018/12/09
Rasa - United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that an international investigation was needed to determine who was responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October.
News ID: 441944 Publish Date : 2018/12/07
Iran:
Rasa - Iran has rejected new US claims about Tehran's acts of terror and violence abroad, saying American officials are explicitly and shamelessly promoting a new paradigm of defending human rights based on the volume of arms deals and under the guise of deceptive human rights slogans and cries.
News ID: 441736 Publish Date : 2018/11/25
Rasa - Iran strongly condemns using human rights resolutions and mechanisms as a tool after a UN panel adopts one such resolution targeting the Islamic Republic.
News ID: 441576 Publish Date : 2018/11/18
Rasa - Iran has condemned a United Nations resolution that accuses it of human rights violations, stressing that the measure's sponsors are playing a "political charade."
News ID: 441568 Publish Date : 2018/11/16