TEHRAN, Apr 08 - Australia police arrested 38 animal rights activists on Monday after they blocked peak hour traffic in Melbourne in protests to mark the first anniversary of a film, Dominion, about factory farming.
TEHRAN, Feb 28 - Visiting Tehran, members of an anti-war NGO based in the US criticize the Washington administration for abandoning the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposing bans on Iran, saying such a move is the outcome of extensive lobbying by the Israeli and Saudi regimes, America’s staunchest allies in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 -Three British lawmakers have endorsed reports showing that over a dozen female activists detained since last May in Saudi Arabia have been subjected to “torture,” saying Riyadh could bear responsibility for the mistreatment.
TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Amnesty International criticized Saudi regime for torturing and mistreating Saudi Arabian human rights activists jailed by the regime.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - A group of activists in the United States and other countries have signed a petition, calling on European countries to boycott an anti-Iran summit set to be hosted by Washington in Poland next month.
TEHRAN, Jan 6 - Dozens of Thai activists on Sunday protested against a possible delay of a national election set for next month, the first such gathering since the military government lifted a ban on political activity imposed after a 2014 coup.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Courts in Bahrain have sentenced two anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down prison sentences to four others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, December 02 - Around 1,000 freedom-seeking Bahraini women are behind bars in the Al-Khalifa regime’s prisons, the country’s main opposition party announced.
TEHRAN, November 18 - Turkey's official news agency says one person has been kept in custody in an investigation over allegations of supporting mass anti-government protests in 2013.
TEHRAN, October 01 - Catalonia's regional government has returned to a school in northern Catalonia where police stormed in to bar people from voting in a banned independence referendum one year ago.
TEHRAN, September 29 - Three anti-regime activists were reportedly killed in a Wednesday raid by the Al Saud regime forces on a house in the Shia-populated Qatif region in the east of the Arab kingdom, as the Riyadh regime continues its brutal crackdown on political dissidents.
TEHRAN, August 28 - Fourteen Cambodian opposition activists were freed Tuesday from long prison terms, their pardons coming as the latest in a series of releases engineered by Prime Minister Hun Sen after his party's election sweep last month.
TEHRAN, August 26 -Iran’s High Council of Human Rights has warned Saudi Arabia about the consequences of its "cruelties", including its reported plans to execute five human rights activists .
TEHRAN, August 6 - Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment with Canada after Ottawa urged Riyadh to free arrested civil society activists , in the top oil exporter's latest retort to Western criticism of its human rights record.
TEHRAN, June 18 -Democratic lawmakers joined protesters outside immigration detention facilities in New Jersey and Texas on Sunday for Father’s Day demonstrations against the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
TEHRAN, June 11 - Three protesters from Hong Kong’s radical youth opposition were jailed on Monday for taking part in a violent unrest, receiving the harshest sentences handed down to democracy activists since the city returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
TEHRAN, June 03 - Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to at least 12 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, April 18 - A court in Bahrain has sentenced 32 anti-regime activists to jail over their alleged role in an attack on a police station in the capital more than a year ago.