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Increase in Drug addiction in Iran |
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Suppression# and Poverty in Iran# has Resulted in the Doubling of the Rate of Drug Addictions among Women
Iran’s chief justice for drug enforcement agency in an interview with Mehr News agency on September 7, 2016 has pointed out the increasing rate of drug addiction among women.
Friday, September 16, 2016
3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to: UN
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The UN estimates nearly 900000 Syrian refugee children are not in school |
GENEVA (AFP) - 15 Sep. 2016- Fewer than half of the world's some six million refugee children are in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the global average, the UN warned Thursday.
A full 3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to, the UN refugee agency said in a report.
'This represents a crisis for millions of refugee children,' UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement, urging international action to get the children back to school.
His comments came ahead of the first-ever UN summit on refugees and migrants, to be held in New York on September 19, and which will be followed the next day by a pledging conference for new offers of aid to refugees hosted by President Barack Obama.
'As the international community considers how best to deal with the refugee crisis, it is essential that we think beyond basic survival,' Grandi said, pointing out that refugees on average are displaced for about 20 years.
That, he said in the UN report, 'is more than an entire childhood.'
'Education enables refugees to positively shape the future of both their countries of asylum and their home countries when they one day return,' he stressed.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Recording on 1988 Prison Massacre Exposes Early Fissure in the Islamic Republic of Iran + photos #1988Massacre#Iran#FreeIran
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Recording on 1988 Prison Massacre Exposes Early Fissure in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
The recently released audio recording of Ayatollah Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 has highlighted disagreements among prominent figures of the Islamic Republic that arose from the decision by Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, to put thousands of political dissidents to death.
Iranians who were born after the revolution’s turbulent first decade have also taken to social media to call for accountability even though they have no actual memory of the period.
In the audio file posted on Montazeri’s official website by his son on August 9, 2016 (Montazeri died in 2009), he described the executions, which were ordered by a special tribunal set up by Khomeini, and which took the lives of an estimated 4,000-5,000 people, as “the greatest crime in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Bezan, Kent Celebrate Final Transfer of Refugees from #Camp Liberty#
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James Bezan, Official Opposition Critic to National Defense and Peter Kent, Official Opposition Critic to foreign affairs |
OTTAWA, The Asian Connections, September 13, 2016 – James Bezan, Official Opposition Critic to National Defense and Peter Kent, Official Opposition Critic to foreign affairs issued the following statement regarding the transfer of the remaining refugees from Camp Liberty:
“We are pleased to hear about the final transfer of refugees from Camp Liberty to Albania. Camp Liberty is located in Iraq and its residents were previously transferred from Camp Ashraf were they continually came under attack from both Iraqi and Iranian forces.
“This week’s news brings an end to a long journey and campaign to ensure that the members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran or MEK were treated with dignity, respect, and had their basic human rights protected. It is our hope that these individuals will be able to live long and fulfilling lives without the fear of reprisal by the dictatorial regime of Iran.
“Members of the Iranian opposition played a central role in producing a positive solution for the residents of Camp Liberty. Those struggling to bring change, democracy, and human rights to Iran were able to draw international attention to the persecution faced by the residents of Camp Liberty and were able to build a coalition of nations, including Canada, who supported their efforts.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
US# lawmaker wants answers on #Iran payment and Tehran's funding of terrorism
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said he’s “gravely concerned with the nefarious possibilities” of what Iran could do with $1.7 billion in cash from the United States |
The Hill, 13 Sep. 2016- A Republican congressman is asking the Treasury Department whether a recent cash payment to Iran could be used to fund terrorism, and how the department plans to keep that from happening.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said he’s “gravely concerned with the nefarious possibilities” of what Iran could do with $1.7 billion in cash from the United States. He sent a letter sent Tuesday the Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, outlining his fears.
At issue is a payment made to Iran by the U.S. earlier this year to settle part of a 1970s lawsuit between the countries. The payment, converted into European cash and airlifted to Iran, preceded a prisoner swap between Iran and the United States.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Final Group of #Camp Liberty# residents left Iraq to Europe
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Victory for the PMOI with final Group of Camp Liberty residents leaving Iraq to Europe |
BAGHDAD, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2016 - A camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group in Iraq was officially closed after the last 280 residents were flown to Albania on Friday, the group said.
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) has been based in Iraq since the 1980s. U.S.-led forces disarmed the group after the 2003 invasion and settled them at a base north of Baghdad.
The MEK says it renounced violence in 2001. The U.S. military in Iraq signed an agreement with the group in 2004, promising that members would be treated as 'protected persons' under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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