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Iran Sentences Woman Labour Activist To Death For Links To Banned Kurdish Group
Iranian authorities Thursday sentenced to death a woman labour activist on charges of links to an outlawed Kurdish organisation, rights groups said.
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Iran Hangs 4 On Charges Of Spying For Israel
Iran on Monday hanged four members of its Kurdish minority on charges of spying for Israel, defying a campaign for their lives to be spared by rights groups who had described their trial as grossly unfair.
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Mahsa Amini's Family Barred From Leaving Iran For European Union Rights Award
The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously, their lawyer said Saturday.
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EU's Top Rights Honour, Sakharov Prize, Awarded To Iran's Mahsa Amini
The European Union on Thursday awarded its top rights honour, the Sakharov Prize, to Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in Iranian custody a year ago, and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement her death triggered.
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Elon Musk, Mahsa Amini Nominated For EU's Top Rights Prize
Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody a year ago, and billionaire Elon Musk were among a field of nominations put forward Wednesday for the EU's top rights prize.
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Over 75 Killed As Anti-Hijab Protests Intensify In Iran: Rights Group
More than 75 people have been killed in the Iranian authorities' crackdown against unrest sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, a rights group said Monday.
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Iran President Vows Of "Decisive Action" Against Anti-Hijab Protests
Iran's ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed "decisive action" against the wave of unrest that has rocked the country since the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi Orders Probe Into Violations By Troops In Mosul
Iraq's prime minister on Monday ordered an investigation into violations of human rights and other abuses purportedly committed by government troops and paramilitary forces battling the ISIS group to retake the city of Mosul.
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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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Blasts Hit Government-Held And Kurdish Parts Of Syria: State Media
Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said.
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Families Say Colorado Men Killed Fighting ISIS Shared Traits
Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the ISIS group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of comradery and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.
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Massive ISIS Bomb Attack Kills 44 In Syrian Kurdish City
A massive bomb blast claimed by the ISIS killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli.
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In Syria, Attack On Kurdish Neighborhood In Aleppo Kills 9
Syrian state media and an activist group say militant shelling of a predominantly Kurdish neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least nine people.
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US-Backed Fighters Capture ISIS-Held Town In Northeast Syria: Reports
A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters including the Kurdish YPG militia captured a strategic ISIS-held town in Syria's northeast on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Arab-Kurd Fighters Kill 16 ISIS Terrorists Near Syria 'Capital'
Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from ISIS during fierce clashes north of the jihadists' stronghold of Raqa, a monitor said today.
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Iran Sentences Woman Labour Activist To Death For Links To Banned Kurdish Group
Iranian authorities Thursday sentenced to death a woman labour activist on charges of links to an outlawed Kurdish organisation, rights groups said.
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Iran Hangs 4 On Charges Of Spying For Israel
Iran on Monday hanged four members of its Kurdish minority on charges of spying for Israel, defying a campaign for their lives to be spared by rights groups who had described their trial as grossly unfair.
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Mahsa Amini's Family Barred From Leaving Iran For European Union Rights Award
The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously, their lawyer said Saturday.
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EU's Top Rights Honour, Sakharov Prize, Awarded To Iran's Mahsa Amini
The European Union on Thursday awarded its top rights honour, the Sakharov Prize, to Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in Iranian custody a year ago, and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement her death triggered.
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Elon Musk, Mahsa Amini Nominated For EU's Top Rights Prize
Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody a year ago, and billionaire Elon Musk were among a field of nominations put forward Wednesday for the EU's top rights prize.
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Over 75 Killed As Anti-Hijab Protests Intensify In Iran: Rights Group
More than 75 people have been killed in the Iranian authorities' crackdown against unrest sparked by the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, a rights group said Monday.
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Iran President Vows Of "Decisive Action" Against Anti-Hijab Protests
Iran's ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed "decisive action" against the wave of unrest that has rocked the country since the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi Orders Probe Into Violations By Troops In Mosul
Iraq's prime minister on Monday ordered an investigation into violations of human rights and other abuses purportedly committed by government troops and paramilitary forces battling the ISIS group to retake the city of Mosul.
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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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Blasts Hit Government-Held And Kurdish Parts Of Syria: State Media
Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said.
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Families Say Colorado Men Killed Fighting ISIS Shared Traits
Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the ISIS group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of comradery and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.
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Massive ISIS Bomb Attack Kills 44 In Syrian Kurdish City
A massive bomb blast claimed by the ISIS killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli.
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In Syria, Attack On Kurdish Neighborhood In Aleppo Kills 9
Syrian state media and an activist group say militant shelling of a predominantly Kurdish neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least nine people.
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US-Backed Fighters Capture ISIS-Held Town In Northeast Syria: Reports
A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters including the Kurdish YPG militia captured a strategic ISIS-held town in Syria's northeast on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Arab-Kurd Fighters Kill 16 ISIS Terrorists Near Syria 'Capital'
Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from ISIS during fierce clashes north of the jihadists' stronghold of Raqa, a monitor said today.
