The last year gave the world a glimpse of the seething anger just below the surface of Iran’s repressive society. But it also highlighted the resilience of the regime.
proposes up to ten years in prison for improper attire and fines up to $1,000 – an impossible sum in Iran, where the economy is in free-fall. A U.N. panel of human experts said the law would beHuman rights lawyer Sara Hossain has a monumental task ahead of her. Based in Bangladesh, she leads the United Nation’s first
targeted Iranian officials and IRGC businesses connected to the violence, deepening Iran’s international isolation.the mission in November by a vote of 25 to 6, with 16 abstentions.From their main office in Geneva, 16 full-time employees rely on open-source material and remote interviews with victims and eyewitnesses inside the country. They collect and verify evidence of torture, forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and executions.
“Even the ones who used to support [the government] have now lost any belief in this system,” he said.
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