AP Journalist rights groups and Iranian dissidents are urging Romania not to deport a former Iranian official to his homeland to face corruption charges, saying he should be prosecuted in Europe for ordering the mass arrest of reporters while serving as a judge in Tehran. Gholamreza Mansouri, 66, fled Iran last year after authorities there alleged ...

American Herald Tribune - In a livestream of a lecture at the Malcolm X Library of San Diego, former journalist Alison Weir, now head of the non-profit educational groupIf Americans Knewwhich seeks to educate Americans on how their tax dollars are spent to violate human rights abroad, discussed the hidden history of how America was used to create the ...

Twenty prominent human rights groups have urged United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon to put Saudi Arabia back on ablacklist for overwhelmingly violating children's rights in Yemen. If the Saudi-led coalition wants to be removed from the list, it should stop killing and maiming children and bombing schools and hospitals in Yemen, the violations for which ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) Human rights groups on Tuesday accused the United States of breaking international law and perhaps committing war crimes by killing civilians in missile and drone strikes that were intended to hit militants in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released separate reports detailing the deaths of dozens ...

  [caption id="attachment_37630" align="alignright" width="234"] Turks participate in an anti-government festival called Man Made of Tear Gas held on the shores of the Kad?koy district on the Asian side of Istanbul on July 7, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Turkish authorities committed gross human rights violations during protests that ...

Human rights groups have condemned the arrest of a five-year-old Palestinian boy by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank,Press TVreports. The boy, Wadia Meswedeh, was arrested on July 9 at a checkpoint near Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of al-Khalil for throwing stones at the car of an Israeli settler. The arrest has prompted condemnations by ...