An Iranian court has sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to death, drawing criticism from United Nations human rights officials. Salehi has been jailed for over a year and a half for supporting protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. “Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court… sentenced Toomaj Salehi to […]
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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi urged the international community to increase pressure on Iran over its grave human rights violations during a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva on Monday. Mohammadi, 51, a prominent human rights activist, has spent much of the last two decades in […]