) 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.

people taking the law into their own hands after deadly clashes between gunmen and vigilantes left more than 40 dead [File: Ben Curtis/AP Photo] (AP Photo) 4 Feb 2023 More than 40 people have been killed in clashes

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Erdogan’s sights are once again trained at territories controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection borders, perceiving it as a threat to Turkey’s territorial integrity amid fears that military bases and training 24 Link to Article: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220616-as-ukraine-crisis-rages-erdogan-trains-his-sights-on-kurdish-northern-syria

Democratic Republic of the Congo youth get the first steps of basic military training in Goma, eastern

woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police" is seen in Tehran, Iran Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo DUBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iran's the custody of morality police, have been at their most intense in the areas where the majority of Iran's Iran's state media said calm had been restored in the area. Ehsan Hajsafi, a footballer who normally plays in Athens, became on Sunday the first member of Iran's

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

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

Japan’s defence ministry claims the program, which includes combat training, will inspire change from All this begs the question: why does the Japanese government continue to train the Myanmar military? The Tatmadaw, along with other Myanmar security forces, has since the coup killed more than 1,400 people In addition to the cadets, two Tatmadaw officers are being trained at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Training, Evaluation, Research and Development Command, and at the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Command

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.

The name loosely translates to the Vigil for the Authentic and Fearless Seekers of Danger. year alone, the group estimated that, on average, seven LGBTQ people were murdered each month, with transgender Earlier this month, the Trans Murder Monitoring project found that 74 percent of all documented murders of transgender or gender-diverse people took place in Latin America. tradition, the muxes are their own distinct community, similar to but separate from categories like “transgender