Iran: Overturn Shutdown of Charity

Click to expand Image Members of one of the Imam Ali Popular Students' Relief Society health houses hold a banner with the organization's name and logo. © 2014 IRNA (Beirut) – The Iranian government should overturn a court ruling to dissolve one of the country’s largest nongovernmental groups that works to alleviate poverty, 15 human rights and civil society organizations, including Human Rights Watch, said today in a joint statement. A court ordered the shutdown at the government’s request in apparent coordination with Iran’s abusive intelligence and security apparatus. On March 5, 2021,…

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