UK Parliament Discontinues Iran Evidence Session Because of Security Threat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Concerns about the regime's targeting of Kurds in Iran were raised at a Dec. 7 emergency meeting in the British House of Commons by the Centre for Kurdish Progress.
45% : Dr. Azad Deewanee, a panelist at the meeting and a researcher specializing in Middle Eastern conflict, spoke about the collaboration between Iran, Russia and Turkey to crack down on Kurds in the region.
43% : An evidence session in the British Parliament about Iran and the recent protests in the country was cancelled following threats made to a witness, according to the lawmaker and Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair Alicia Kearns.
42% : The uprising in Iran began on Sept. 16 after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Jina Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of the country's morality police.
41% : Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin, Mohammad Baroghani and Mohsen Shekari were arrested and reportedly moved to solitary confinement on Dec. 6 in Karaj's Rajai-Shahr (Gohardasht) prison, according to a tweet by @mamlekate, an influential account which shares news from inside Iran.
40% : An estimated 14,000 have been arrested, including at least 574 university students according to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
38% : A growing number of children are also reported to be facing the death penalty, including brothers Ali and Mohammad Rakhshani, aged 15 and 16 respectively, from Iran's Baluchistan province.
38% : The tweeter said a source from the prison warned that the men were all at imminent risk of execution.
37% : At least three more children are believed to be at risk of being executed, after being arrested in Iran's Karaj City on charges which carry the death penalty.
36% : The Baluchis are an ethnic minority group in Iran routinely persecuted by the government.
35% : The teenagers were arrested on the charge of "corruption on earth" and detained in Zahedan prison, where they remain at risk of execution, according to a Dec. 1 tweet by US-based the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities.
35% : The brutal crackdown on protesters has disproportionately affected Kurds, a minority group in Iran.
33% : The Iranian government has been accused by human rights organizations of targeting dissidents, children and ethnic and religious minorities in recent months, as anti-government protests spread to every province in Iran.
32% : The Nov. 6 public session was set up to discuss the committee's 2020 report on Iran, Iran's nuclear program, the protests in Iran; and the foreign policy implications of the unfolding developments in the Islamic Republic.
26% : We see now [anti-government] campaigns across Iran, but [Iran's government] is now itself starting to bomb [Kurdish] party headquarters in Iran as well."

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