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| EU extends sanctions against Iran over human rights |
| 2016-04-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] Asset freezes and travel bans against 82 Iranian officials to be kept in place until 2017 The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said Monday it had extended sanctions against 82 Iranian officials until 2017 because of the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. situation in the nation. The 28-nation bloc has had asset freezes and travel bans in place against Iranians since 2011 because of perceived violations of human rights. The measures came despite a recent improvement of relations linked to a nuclear deal between Western powers and Tehran. In 2015, executions in the country were at "the highest rate in over two decades," the UN’s top expert on the human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, told the Human Rights Council last month. In 2014, 753 people were executed in Iran. Shaheed added that "at least 73 juvenile offenders were reportedly executed between 2005 and 2015," 16 of them in the past two years alone. Tehran dismissed the UN report as "biased, discriminatory, and prepared with political motives." "Through exploiting international human rights mechanisms," the report "reduces human rights to a political dispute," foreign ministry front man Hossein Jaber Ansari said in a statement. In a report published in January, global rights watchdog |
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