Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
On Sunday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued amnesties to a large number of prisoners, including some arrested in recent anti-government protests. Rights group HRANA said dozens of political prisoners and protesters, including several prominent figures, had been freed under amnesty, but the exact status of their release was not known. Rights activists have expressed […]
Rights groups say that as a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ibrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital. Now three decades later president, and seen by many as Iran’s potential next supreme leader, Raisi is presiding over an uncoordinated response to domestic and international […]
“Iran has the most progressive constitution in the world” because it matches “ideals with democracy”, Raisi said in a speech to lawmakers, quoting an unnamed African lawyer he said he had met several years earlier. “The constitution guarantees the (existence) of the Islamic order,” he said, adding that it also “guarantees fundamental rights and legitimate […]
