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Your rights not my rights

December 13-2013

Judiciary Chairman Sadeq Larijani says the Western claims that Iran violates human rights are grounded chiefly in “basic differences” between the West and the Islamic world over what constitutes human rights.  That is an interesting point.  The reports of the UN human rights investigators and of various Western human rights groups criticize Iran for such things as torturing prisoners, denying lawyers to the accused, abusing members of minority faiths, using forced confessions in trials, jailing dissidents for criticizing the state

 

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