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• Global watchdog gives Iran until Feb to tighten anti-money laundering rules

  October 18, 2019
  PARIS (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog said on Friday it had given Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to comply with international norms after which it would urge all its members to apply counter-measures.
  The Paris-based FATF said in the meantime that it was asking members to demand scrutiny of transactions with Iran and tougher external auditing of financing firms operating in the country.
  “If before February 2020, Iran does not enact the Palermo and (...)

• UN : Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

  Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

• DECLARATION OF SUPPORT for Civil Society and Political Activists in Iran

  In recent days, some activists in Iran have been making appeals to highlight inequalities, oppression, arbitrary arrest and torture by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Given the fact that the current regime in Iran has been responsible for appalling conditions and the dangerous situation in the country over the past forty years, and threatening the country’s sovereignty, the authors of this appeal call for the resignation of the Supreme Leader of the IRI and a new Constitution for Iran. (...)

• Mass Sentencing of Labor Activists, Journalists Prelude to Reign of Repression Under New Judiciary Chief

  Seven Sentenced to Lengthy Jail Terms in Connection with Peaceful Protests
  September 9, 2019—Less than a year after workers’ rights activists in southwestern Iran publicized evidence that Intelligence Ministry agents had tortured detainees, those same activists and four independent journalists who covered their cases have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
  “The sentences are an indicator that newly appointed Judiciary Chief Ehrabim Raisi intends to prolong his predecessor’s reign of (...)

• Iran: Sentencing of Mses. Saba Kord-Afshari, Yassman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojgan Keshavarz

  RN 006 / 0919 / OBS 068 Sentencing / Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment Iran September 2, 2019
  The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.
  Description of the situation:
  The Observatory has been informed by the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) about the sentencing of Mses. Saba Kord-Afshari, Yassman (...)

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