Behind the Headlines/september 17

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

The latest news of Iran, including the continuation of human rights abuses; hunger strike of several political prisoners; Sochi meeting between Russia and Turkey and its outcome for Iran; child abuse during the Muharram; and answering the questions of our audience.

Human rights activist Farhad Raeesi has now gone on a dry hunger strike.

French trade union workers have written an open letter to Iranian authorities to release the Iranian imprisoned teacher Mr Habibi from Evin prison.

Latest reports suggest that Iran has the largest number of human rights lawyers behind the bar.

Four Iranian Bahais have been arrested in the city of Shiraz, while the persecution of the followers of the minority faith continues in the country.

In the oil city of Abadan unpaid workers have blocked the roads to the city’s municipality by using loaders.

In the absence of Iran the Russian and Turkish leaders have met in Sochi to discuss the future of Syrian civil war and the meeting is yet another indication that the Islamic republic regime is the losing party despite having squandered billions of Iranian people’s money in the conflict, not to mention the number people killed in it.

While the AvaToday news website has published the news of a secret meeting between the US representative with Ghassem Soleimani in Iraq, all eyes are on what president Trump will say about Iran’s regional policies in next week’s UN Security Council meeting,

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