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  1. danieldemol

    Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump; Interpol denies help

    ‘Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday that Trump, along with more than 30...
  2. danieldemol

    Iranian cleric's call to kill activist challenging country's ban on women cycling

    ‘An Iranian cleric has called on followers to “kill” an award-winning journalist and women’s rights campaigner after she challenged the country’s ban on women cycling. Masih Alinejad, who lives in exile in the United States, posted a video to Twitter in which the unnamed cleric insisted she...
  3. danieldemol

    Iran's Only Female Olympic Medalist Says She Has Defected

    'An Iranian Olympian, Kimia Alizadeh, has reportedly defected from the Islamic Republic, according to a letter she published on her Instagram account on Saturday. The letter was published in Persian and is accompanied by a black and white image of her from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro...
  4. danieldemol

    Iran: More than 100 protesters believed to be killed as top officials give green light to crush

    Iran: More than 100 protesters believed to be killed as top officials give green light to crush protests 'Verified video footage, eyewitness testimony from people on the ground and information gathered from human rights activists outside Iran reveal a harrowing pattern of unlawful killings by...
  5. danieldemol

    Zombie Angelina Jolie' arrested over blasphemy charges in Iran, Instagram account shut down

    Zombie Angelina Jolie' arrested over blasphemy charges in Iran, Instagram account shut down Iran has arrested an Instagram celebrity famous for drastically altering her appearance through cosmetic surgery, Tasnim news agency has reported. Key points: The Instagram star reportedly faces a raft...
  6. danieldemol

    Silencing dissent (And criminalising the mentally ill)

    Pakistani man jailed for blasphemous Facebook post ‘A Pakistani court Friday sentenced a man to five years jail and hard labour for a blasphemous Facebook post, in what is believed to be one of the first such cases under controversial cybercrime laws. Sajid Ali was charged with posting...
  7. danieldemol

    Arrest of Iranian-American journalist's family an attempt to intimidate, rights groups say

    Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad. Source: Getty Images The family of a prominent Iranian women's rights activist are reportedly being detained at an unknown location. Three family members of an award-winning Iranian-American journalist and activist have been detained in an attempt to...
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  8. danieldemol

    Woman jailed for trying to enter football stadium in Iran sets herself on fire

    ‘A woman who was jailed for trying to watch a men's football match in Iran is reportedly fighting for her life after setting herself on fire outside a courthouse in Tehran on Monday. According to the Centre for Human Rights in Iran, the 29-year-old woman's sister told Iran media outlet, Rokna...
  9. danieldemol

    Teaching a faith in Iran vs Australia

    It seems to me as though in Iran, the Shia are free to preach their religion including polemics against other religions from the airwaves and as publicly as they please. By comparison teaching another religion such as the Baha'i Faith, seems to land one in prison for unspecified periods of time...
  10. Shaul

    Iranian general: Israel stealing Iran's clouds

    “An Iranian general on Monday accused Israel of manipulating weather to prevent rain over the Islamic republic, alleging his country was facing cloud "theft", before being contradicted by the nation's weather chief.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248323
  11. danieldemol

    Iranian women risk arrest as they remove their veils for White Wednesdays

    “Women in Iran are waving white clothes on the end of sticks — but it is an act of defiance, not surrender. During the protests that rocked Iran earlier this month, a powerful image emerged of an unveiled woman waving a white veil on the end of a stick. Vida Movahed, 31, was arrested for this...
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