Tag: Ali Khamenei

Man Arrested for Holding a Placard against Supreme Leader

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Freedom of Expression, News
Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin

A video circulated on social media shows a man standing over a telephone kiosk holding a placard with a slogan against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He was arrested immediately after.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, security forces arrested a man for holding a placard.

The man was holding a placard with slogans against Iran’s Supreme Leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin written on it. Putin recently visited Iran for diplomatic talks with Iran and Turkey’s leaders in Tehran.

 

 

Citizen Arrested in Qazvin for Criticizing Ayatollah Khamenei’s Ban on US and UK Vaccine Imports

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Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Khamenei, Citizen arrested, COVID, COVID vaccines, Khamenei, Mehregan, Qazvin, Reza Behrouzi

On Saturday, August 21, Reza Behrouzi, a resident of Qazvin, was arrested by security forces at his home.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Mr. Behrouzi had previously posted a video on his social media page criticizing the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, for banning the import of COVID vaccines. Ayatollah Khamanei banned US and UK vaccine imports in January.

Reza Behrouzi is a worker living in the Mehregan town of Qazvin and the father of three children. As of this writing, no information is available on the whereabouts and status of this citizen.

Mehdi Khalaji: Iran and the Human Rights Opening

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Freedom of Expression
Abdul Fattah Sultani, Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Mehdi Khalaji, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Zahra Rahnavard

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HRANA News Agency – The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted Iranian authorities to widen their violations of human rights.

With tensions mounting over Iran’s nuclear program, the West has dealt the Tehran regime crippling blows on several fronts, including through sanctions, the targeted killing of scientists, and cyber operations such as the Stuxnet virus. Tehran is no doubt reeling but regime leaders have spotted a silver lining: The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted them to widen their violations of human rights.

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Amnesty‎: Iran- Releases of prisoners of conscience after pardon not enough

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Prisoners
Abbas Ja’fari Dowlatabadi, Abdolfattah Soltani, Ali Khamenei, Ali Malihi, Behnam Irani, Ghasem Sholeh Sa’adi, Mohammad Seyfzadeh, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nazanin Khosravani, Nooshin Khadem, Reza Shahabi, Sa’id Metinpour, Shahrokh Zamani

HRANA News Agency – Amnesty‎ International; Anyone held in Iran solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights should immediately and unconditionally be released, Amnesty International has said, following the pardoning by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of at least 130 political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, from Tehran’s Evin Prison.

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