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Iran: A Bloodthirsty Regime With World Record in Executions
Continued Imprisonment of Americans Calls Attention to Broader Ideological Crackdowns
By INU staff
INU - According to Agence-France Presse, US Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement on Friday calling for the release of former US Marine Amir Hekmati from Iranian custody. The statement referred to the Iranian-American’s “unjust detention” and said of the State Department and Obama administration, “We repeat our call on the Iranian government to release Amir on humanitarian grounds.”
Situation for Women Points to Worsening Challenges for all Iranians
By INU staff
INU - In our coverage yesterday of the launch of an official matchmaking website in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we pointed out that this attempt to promote speedy marriage and traditional families is of a piece with a broader effort by Iran’s leaders to crack down on the rights of women and to reassert conservative clerical control over the structure of Iranian society.
UN Report Supplements Specific Activism for Iran Human Rights
By INU staff
INU -On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon released a 16-page report on the situation of human rights in Iran. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran provided a summary of the document and a download link for the full text on its website.
Executions, Imprisonment Raise Fears that Situation in Iran is Worse than Ever
The National Council of Resistance of Iran reported on Monday that at least eight prisoners had been executed over the weekend, thus maintaining a considerably high frequency of executions and putting the Islamic Republic, already the nation with the world’s highest rate of death penalties, to exceed the previous year’s total.