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Torture and other ill-treatment

GQUAL, IRCT, REDRESS, OMCT, ISHR, APT and Amnesty International Concerned by the Lack of Nominations of Women Candidates to the Committee against Torture

The GQUAL Campaign, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), REDRESS, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and Amnesty International call on States parties to...
Iran Death Penalty

Iran: Six Ahwazi Arabs at grave risk of execution

Six men – Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s persecuted Ahwazi Arab minority face imminent execution. A Revolutionary Court used their torture-tainted “confessions” to sentence them to death in February after a grossly...