TEHRAN, April 10 - Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc’s chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country.
TEHRAN, March 8 - Hundreds of people protested against the renewed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal in Santiago on Wednesday, just a day before representatives of 11 different nations sign it.
TEHRAN, February 26 -Anti-gun activists and campaign groups calling for stricter gun control inside the United States need to focus on the type of gun violence that is taking place in other countries under Washington’s watch, says a former US Marine in London.
TEHRAN, February 17-A group of pro-democracy activists in Thailand said on Saturday that it plans to hold more public protests, despite threat of arrests, to demand the military government not to delay a general election scheduled for November this year.
TEHRAN, February 16 - Thailand's military government has filed criminal charges against 50 activists over a recent protest in which they demanded the army give up power and restore civilian rule through elections, a lawyers' group said Friday.
TEHRAN, January 27 -Human rights in Bahrain have deteriorated significantly in the past year because international pressure on the Gulf Arab kingdom has weakened, activists said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, January 2 - UN human rights experts have urged Saudi Arabia to put an end to "repression" of rights activists and release dozens detained for peacefully exercising their civil and political rights.
TEHRAN, December 16 - Activists said Bahraini forces have held six civilians, including a woman, without offering any legal justification for their detention as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its repressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, November 27 - A human rights group says the health condition of Bahrain’s top Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been under a virtual house arrest since last year, has dramatically deteriorated in recent days, warning that he is in urgent need of medical treatment.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Amnesty International has denounced the recent prison sentence handed down to prominent human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab as “shameful and unfair.”
TEHRAN, September 28 - A court in Bahrain has upheld 15-year jail terms handed down to seven citizens as the Manama regime presses ahead with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 23 - A group of international journalists and activists have called on the UN to put an end to the “Muslim holocaust” in Myanmar, warning that the “worst bloodshed” after the World War II looms ahead as a result of the ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
TEHRAN, May 29, YJC - A senior leader of the Bahraini al Wefaq party has strongly denounced the Al Khalifah regime authorities for not returning the bodies of slain activists who were killed by Bahraini forces during a recent attack on the home of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shia majority.
TEHRAN, May 26, YJC - A Saudi court has given death sentences to over a dozen young Shia activists from the restive Qatif region, which has been the scene of peaceful protest rallies against the ruling Al Saudi regime in recent years.
TEHRAN, May 25, YJC -UK rights activists have gathered outside Bahrain’s embassy in London to call on the British government and the rest of the international community to stand up to the Bahraini regime and stop its brutal treatment of ant-government protesters.
TEHRAN, May 25, YJC -UK rights activists have gathered outside Bahrain’s embassy in London to call on the British government and the rest of the international community to stand up to the Bahraini regime and stop its brutal treatment of ant-government protesters.
TEHRAN, March 30, YJC - Bahraini protesters have clashed with regime forces during rallies held across the sheikhdom against death sentences and hefty prison terms handed down to opposition
figures and political activists .