UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly on Friday condemned an alleged plot — blamed by U.S. authorities on Iranian agents — to kill Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United States and urged Iran to obey international law. A resolution passed with 106 votes in favor, nine against and ...
27 October 2011 The U.N. Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, has filed his first report to the General Assembly. First-hand testimonies from individuals and organizations, he wrote, reveal “a pattern of systemic violations of… fundamental human rights.” They include severe deficits in the administration of justice; ...
The Huffington Post 17 November 2011 Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, believes that if Tehran does not cooperate with his mandate and continues on the current path in ignoring international mechanisms to monitor the worsening human rights crisis in the country, ...
Click Here To Watch The Video Guess which author has a top-selling book around here; everyone seems to want a copy. The Supreme Leader has a new book out with the catchy title, ‘Movement of Science Production’, but I gather sales for that are only lukewarm. The top-selling author isn’t ...
By SARAH SHOURD Published: November 5, 2011 AT 5:15 p.m. I found myself pacing compulsively back and forth across my 10-foot-by-14-foot cell in Iran’s Evin prison, muttering reassurances to myself and kneading my nervous hands together into one fat fist. “Don’t worry,” I told myself, “this is probably your last ...