TEHRAN, November 7 -A Hong Kong court on Tuesday allowed three jailed young activists, who spearheaded pro- democracy protests that brought much of the Chinese-ruled city to a halt in 2014, a final chance to appeal against their sentences.
TEHRAN, October 24 -Hong Kong’s highest court granted bail to two prominent young pro- democracy activists, Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, on Tuesday pending an appeal over their jail terms for unlawful assembly linked to the city’s mass pro- democracy protests in 2014.
TEHRAN, October 13 - The Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Larijani and the State Duma Speaker Volodin met on Friday in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Former US President Jimmy Carter has warned that money in politics has made the United States more like an “oligarchy than a democracy ” and described President Donald Trump’s foreign and domestic policies as a failure.
TEHRAN, August 3, YJC - Iran has been always struggling with antagonistic policies of the United States and its allies, but Iranian people’s participation in politics helped the country stand firm, said an academic.
TEHRAN, May 31, YJC - A senior State Department official was visibly caught off guard when asked about the US government’s criticism of the Iranian elections and its silence over lack of such democratic process in Saudi Arabia.
TEHRAN, April 16, YJC -Turks began voting in a hotly contested referendum on Sunday that could place sweeping new powers in the hands of President Tayyip Erdogan.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks determined to impose, in violation of the spirit of parliamentary democracy , his will over the government as Jan. 19, the date of the first Cabinet meeting he will preside over, draws near.
The Dalai Lama has called for democracy in China and offered prayers for victims of the Tiananmen crackdown ahead of the launch Thursday of a new campaign for autonomy in his Tibetan homeland.
TEHRAN, YJC.-- A former member of the British domestic spy agency, MI5, says Iraq “has been wrecked by the western intervention”, stressing the claims of taking democracy to Iraq were “flagrant hypocrisy” from the very onset.