Human Rights

Days before the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, President Donald Trump signed into law on Monday new bipartisan legislation committing the United States to prevent genocide and to confront anti-Semitism at home and abroad, JNS reported. The first measure, named in honor of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a brutal crackdown on the country’s Christian minority before and after Christmas, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported for Fox News on Saturday. Weinthal cited a report by the Iranian group Alliance for Rights of All...

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The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have been accused of holding six prominent members of the Baha’i religious minority as prisoners of conscience and fabricating criminal charges against them, including colluding with Israel, The National reported last week. The deputy human rights minister of the internationally recognized Yemeni government said...

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The family of a United States Navy veteran says that he has been imprisoned on unspecified charges in Iran since July, The New York Times reported Monday. Michael White’s mother, Joanne, said that her son never boarded a flight from Iran on July 27. White had been visiting his girlfriend in Iran....

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), one time the nation’s premier civil rights organization, has falsely characterized legislation that would penalize companies that boycott Israel as limiting free speech. A letter posted at the organization’s website claimed that the bipartisan legislation, which supports state laws barring contracts with businesses that boycott...

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Two women imprisoned by the Iranian regime in the infamous Evin prison have announced their intent to participate in a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant them access to adequate health care, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen, wrote in a letter that...

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