by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2022 | News
Article18 director Mansour Borji has welcomed yesterday’s historic decision by UN Human Rights Council members to send a fact-finding mission to investigate claims of human rights violations related to the ongoing protests. 🔴 BREAKING At its 35th special...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Nov 2022 | News
The photograph used by state media in the interview with Mr Betkolia, showing the former MP standing alongside the flags of the Assyrian people (left) and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The former parliamentary representative of Iran’s Assyrian minority has launched a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Nov 2022 | News
The UN General Assembly has passed a draft resolution highlighting the “deteriorating” human-rights situation in Iran, including “lethal force resulting in death against peaceful protesters”, as well as “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Nov 2022 | News
(Photo: AP) The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the sentencing to death of an Iranian protester on “religiously-grounded charges” and warned of the “credible” threat of “large-scale executions in the coming weeks”. On Sunday, a Tehran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Nov 2022 | News
Assyrian parliamentary representative Sharli Envieh. Iran’s Assyrian Christian minority have been warned by their parliamentary representative and church leaders to have no further involvement in the ongoing protests. Article18 was informed yesterday by sources...