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The judge in “Shahid Mogaddas” District Prosecutor’s Office of Evin prison, has issued an unprecedented provisional detention warrant (the heaviest…

Alireza Farshi, an Azerbaijani Turk civil activist, was arrested at his office in Tehran on Wednesday (Jan 8). His family…

A Uighur activist has spoken out against China’s “Pair Up and Become Family” program, in which Han Chinese men are…

  It is only two months to the International Mother Language Day, while in Iran four people are to be…

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to recognise the killing of Native Americans at the hand of European settlers…

The Xinjiang regional government in China’s far west is deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held…

Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Monday but unlike recent protests decrying a jump in the…

The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response…

Citing “pervasive human rights abuses across Xinjiang”, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday urging US President Donald…

HONG KONG — The students booked their tickets home at the end of the semester, hoping for a relaxing break…

Delegates to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday overwhelmingly praised Iran’s human rights performance at a periodic review…

Mr Johnson said his government would not give the go-ahead for another legally-binding referendum. The Tory leader claimed the issue…

Music teacher and self-described political dissident Homayoun Zaran fled Iran for Afghanistan six years ago in search of a quieter…

Tabriz, Iran, nestled in the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has lost many of its historic treasures over time. Enough…

A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person to write and defend a thesis in…

Amnesty International has condemned Iranian authorities for cutting off the fingers of a man convicted of theft. The rights group…

The Least Iranian Place in Iran As my Tabriz-bound flight waited on the tarmac in Shiraz, I looked through my…

(UNITED NATIONS) — Iran executed seven child offenders last year and two so far this year even though human rights…

Azerbaijani parents cannot give their children Russian names, government officials have said, describing the new policy as a “struggle for…

For the first time in history, tourists in Turkey’s megacity Istanbul are expected to exceed the city’s own residents in…