The Center for Human Rights in Iran fiercely denounces the outrageous death sentence imposed on rapper Toomaj Salehi by the Islamic Revolutionary Court.

This verdict not only underscores glaring legal flaws but also constitutes a flagrant mockery of the judicial system, once…

This sentence has shocked Iranians – he’s very popular. His lawyer has said he will appeal.

It’s my husband’s birthday today and he remains a hostage in Iraq.
We are begging for Anthony Albanese & Senator Penny Wong to do all they can NOW to bring him home to us.
Three years away from us is too long.
#freerobertpether #auspol

Very proud of my dad Anoosheh Ashoori running his third TCS London Marathon to raise awareness for hostages in Iran

Narges Mohammadi, Iran's hero Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. 'I wish I had known as a young girl growing up in rural Iraq that women like Narges Mohammadi existed,' Nadia Morad.

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A war of words, a swirl of off the record warnings, and a nervous watching and waiting ... what comes next in the age-old enmity between #Iran and #Israel ?

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks of the long road to recovery after her prison ordeal, and says she will never get over the “stolen” years of her daughter’s childhood. ‘Freedom is sweet... but it's not easy' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687896…

After 6 long years, the #IranianEnvironmentalists have been finally freed. Their commitment to protecting our planet is a testament to their bravery. Let's honor their sacrifice and the memory of our dear colleague, my friend, Kavous (pictured). He paid the ultimate price.

The plight of an Australian engineer in an Iraqi jail. Robert Pether says he was locked in a cupboard and forced to confess - and now just hopes to survive to feel the sun on his skin again

Momentous ruling on climate change. Unchallengeable.
Congratulations Jessica Simor KC and team, and the hardy group of Swiss fighters.

#climate #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

The joy of freedom. She'd been held since 2018, and subjected to psychological torture including death threats. Part of a group of eminent environmentalists from the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, accused of spying after using cameras to track endangered cheetahs.

'We know statistically that in 10 years we will be gone. So whatever we do now, we are not doing for ourselves, but for the sake of our children and our children's children.'
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It began in brutal earnest thirty years ago today. I remember the the smell, the decomposing dead, the survivors, the fear, the abandonment, the lessons never learned, those days that seem like yesterday #Rwanda

A South Sudan/Sudan border crossing last week. Sudan is currently the world’s largest displacement crisis. Around 1,000 people are crossing into South Sudan every day. #KeepEyesOnSudan

The world has been distracted by other wars and other suffering - but Sudan matters. Brilliant episode with ⁦Feras Kilani فراس كيلاني⁩ ⁦Mercy Juma⁩ ⁦lyse doucet⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

The Afghan youth orchestra has toured Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and will play New York’s Carnegie Hall but Home Office won’t let them in

The deaths of people in Gaza waiting for an aid convoy yesterday were horrific.

Read my full statement below.

the courage required to show up for navalny’s funeral is worth our appreciation

Russia today. A country where a widow can’t be at the funeral of her husband, but has to say goodbye via social media -because in Moscow she wld risk arrest as an ‘extremist’

The same goes for Navalny’s brother, children- & all his key team members (those not already in prison)