Two leading human rights groups have condemned a nine-year prison sentence upheld by a Tehran court for prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah also received a 10-year ban on practicing law. Dadkhah, who has defended a number of political prisoners in Iran, including ...
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, lawyer of Yousef Nadarkhani who was sentenced to death for apostasy, is interviewed by Reuters in his office in Tehran./ Prominent human rights advocate and attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who represents the Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran in a case that sparked ...
Judge Salavati has upheld the nine-year prison sentence for prominent lawyer and distinguished human rights activist Mohammad Ali Dadkhah. Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he was only informed of the decision when he went to court to follow up on a client’s ...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)/ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister of retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the ...
A gun battle and air strikes resulted in the deadliest incident of its kind for months/ At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria overnight, state media reported, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind for months. It said children were among the ...
BBC correspondent examines footage showing moments leading up to shooting in the occupied West Bank/ Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli ...
A worker fills a bag with wood chip biomass at Nova Pangaea Technologies, in Redcar, Britain, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/ LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's government watered down plans to strengthen workers' protection against unfair dismissal on Thursday, saying employees would get the ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...
A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...
A letter from the Texas state attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity before it has really even got going. In a three-page letter sent to the seven power conference universities in Texas, Ken Paxton implores the schools not to sign the College Sports ...
Mohammed Ibrahim was 15 when he was arrested at his family's holiday home in the occupied West Bank/ A Palestinian-American teenager is expected to appear in court in Israel later this week after nine months in detention without being charged. Mohammed Ibrahim, who is 16 and lives in Florida, ...
This photo combination of images provided by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office shows from top left, Michael Lawton, Melody Bangs, Tonda Michelin, and Dale Moser. (Greenville County Sheriff's Office via AP)/ CLEVELAND, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers on Tuesday found a grandmother and three ...