Berger A protest in Tehran on Monday over the death of Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of Iran (AFP/Getty Images) Protests in Iran over the death of a young woman while in the custody of its so-called The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, a Kurdish woman from western Iran, during a visit to the capital last week Wednesday was the fifth day of unrest across Iran, with protests in numerous places, including Tehran Some used Amini’s Kurdish first name, Jhina, in a reference to discrimination Kurds face in Iran.

More than 200,000 Yazidi survivors are still displaced from their homes in Iraq since the 2014 genocide August 3rd,2014 Eight years on since the Islamic State militant group's massacres of Yazidis, more than "Families are forced to focus on meeting their most basic needs rather than on meaningfully rebuilding More than 2,700 people remain missing, the agency added. More than 10,000 people fled the fighting, adding to the displaced population. © 2022 The New Arab Link

) Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline head of Iran’s judiciary, has been hailed the country’s new president congratulated him on his victory and preliminary results showed he had secured 17.8m votes, a huge 14.5m more than More than 41 million did so in 2017. The talks between Iran, Russia, China and three European states have in effect been on hold waiting for The UK ambassador to Iran, Rob Macaire, was also summoned by the Iranian foreign ministry.

Human Rights Watch has documented how women and girls, especially trans women, sex workers, refugees, Trans women have described being placed in men’s cells, being denied food and water, and being coerced

USCIRF) today condemned the Iranian government’s alarming escalation of persecution targeting Baha’is in Iran In the past month, Iran’s government has raided Baha’i homes across the country and jailed more than Iran’s government has systematically persecuted the Baha’i community for decades. Baha’is are restricted from pursuing education in Iran and security forces regularly close down Baha’ In December 2020, the State Department redesignated Iran as a CPC. ### The U.S.

A man walks past a train on the Abuja-Kaduna night railway line in Abuja, on July 21, 2016. that so-called bandits and the terrorists known as Boko Haram have formed a united front to attack trains “Preliminary reports of what transpired at the Kaduna train attack show that there is a kind of collaboration Gunmen Attack Train Near Nigeria's Capital, Kill Some Riders Kachalla Ali’s high-profile attacks have A week after the train attack the bandits released a wealthy hostage, Alwan Hassan, acting CEO of the

Troops loyal to Myanmar’s junta have killed more than 80 ethnic Chins in the country since the military Translated by Khin Maung Nyane. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.

Threats, Rape, Assault, Wrongful Detention January 26, 2022 (New York) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Riza When Taliban forces took their city in August, Aimal W. and Aryan D. took shelter with two other trans Aimal saw a police car drive up as she ran away and saw men tying Riza up with a rope. More than 10 days passed before Aryan or Aimal heard from Riza again. “You will be a sign to the public and to your trans community,” Riza recalled her captors saying.

Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations says it has received “credible allegations” that more than Secretary general Antonio Guterres said in a report that “more than two thirds” of the deaths were alleged

Lyammouri added that the death toll was likely higher than officials had estimated. security situation has fueled one of the fastest-growing displacement crises in the world, with more than

Special Report: March 2023 Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images Although Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sixty-seven countries still criminalize same-sex relations, and fourteen criminalize transgender and Iran has executed thousands of gay people since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran differs from most countries with anti-gay laws by authorizing "gender reassignment." The Taliban's Sharia court system ran parallel to the state judicial system.

President Bashar al-Assad is gathering with the despots of Russia, Turkey, and Iran to draw up the terms terrorism, its capacity to ensure Israel’s survival, and its relationship with states like Turkey, Iran the rise of the Islamic State, a terrorist organization even more bloody-minded and bent on conquest than It may be that his focus on building alliances in Asia will prove, despite the collapse of his Trans-Pacific Partnership, to be of greater long-term significance than his misadventures in Syria.