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Jordanian police corner off the area where prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was shot dead outside a court in Amman. Photo: AFP
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Gulf Study Exposes Systematic Executions in Iran, a Mechanism to Protect an Oppressive Regime
London- A Gulf-prepared paper exposed earth-shattering statistics on the systematic executions carried out in Iran since the rise of the cleric regime in 1979. Iran’s theocratic regime, founded by Ruhollah Khomeini, has long enforced law through the brutal excess of...Caption:
Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir addresses a protest rally in Lahore on April 4, 2009 Getty Images
Tehran Demands International Praise over Carried Executions
London-Iran’s chair to the judiciary’s committee for human rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani, brother to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, demanded that the West and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran Ahmad Shaheed to...Caption:
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)
1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials
London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...Caption: