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Iran executes two men who tried storming military facility during January protest crackdown

Iran executed two men convicted of attempting to storm a military facility during January's anti-government protests. The men were among four facing execution in a crackdown on unrest.

Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026.
Demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a  protest to mark Al-Quds Day, in London, Britain, March 15, 2026

The Jewish passion for freedom and human rights was hijacked by the West - opinion

An image from a Women, Life, Freedom protest in Washington, DC in 2023.

Iran executes man allegedly tied to attack on military site during mass protests

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests.

Iran steps up executions as experts warn state killing being used to suppress political dissent


Amnesty UK to release 'end Israeli apartheid' merch line

“We expect the t-shirts and other End Israeli Apartheid campaign products to be popular," the NGO's Crisis Response Manager told The Jerusalem Post.

 The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into humans rights abuses committed in Venezuela during protests against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2

'Calling Israel 'apartheid' is plain antisemitic' - VP of European Parliament

At a conference by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. the WZO and NGO Monitor, world leaders discussed the misappropriation of the term "apartheid" and its use against Israel.

 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold candles during a protest in front of Catalan Government in Sant Jaume quarter in central Barcelona January 16, 2009 against Israel's attacks on Gaza. The sign reads: "Boycott Israel, boycott apartheid".

Palestinian teen stabber a victim of 'Israeli apartheid,' justice system - Amnesty

Ahmad Manasrah, 20, "lost his childhood in Israel's prison system," said Amnesty International, after going on a stabbing rampage in 2015.

13-year-old east Jerusalem boy who carried out stabbing attack in Pisgat Ze'ev hospitalized at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem‏

Pro-Iran professor slips up on his ‘crimes against humanity’ in interview

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, a professor of Islamic Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio called the regime-sanctioned massacre of 5,000 Iranians “little details.”

Jafar Mahallati speaks at TEDxTehran

PA pushing for UN apartheid committee on Israel, Amnesty head says

"We need to use all possible tools to bring pressure so that the systems of oppression and domination in Israel are disestablished."

 A placard depicting former South African President Nelson Mandela hangs on a barbed wire during clashes with Palestinians and Israeli security forces, near Ramallah December 6, 2013.

Sorry, Amnesty: I am a Zionist. Let me tell you what that means

Amnesty was once on the right side of history. How did the group let itself fall so far?

 Peter Benenson, the British lawyer who founded Amnesty International in 1961, rekindles the original candle on the movement’s 20th anniversary outside St Martin in the Fields Church in London.

Ukraine-Russia War: Russia committed war crimes near Kyiv - Amnesty

The Amnesty report is the latest to document alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces when they occupied an area northwest of Kyiv, including the town of Bucha.

 A funeral service employee looks at bodies of civilians, collected from streets to local cemetery, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine April 6, 2022.

Netherlands rejects Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid

Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra: “The cabinet does not agree with Amnesty’s conclusion that there is apartheid in Israel."

 Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) at the State Department in Washington, US, April 14, 2022.

Republican senators write bill to prohibit Amnesty from receiving funds

"Israel is such an important ally to the United States, and an organization that uses its platform to undermine their sovereignty should not be receiving US taxpayer funds," Sen. Mike Braun said.

 The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into humans rights abuses committed in Venezuela during protests against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2

Amnesty Intl. describes unprecedented human rights abuses in Ukraine

Describing the conflict as "an act of aggression," Amnesty noted that it has caused the worst refugee and human rights crisis in Europe since the Second World War.

A view shows an apartment building destroyed in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 25, 2022.