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Australian
officials have decided to return Iranian refugees there back to Iran.
Australian government announced that this decision was taken after a new deal
was reached with Iranian regime.
During the
past decades many Iranians have fled their country for fear of being arrested,
tortured or even executed.
At the new session of U.N. Human
Rights Council, now underway in Geneva, Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur
on the situation of human rights in Iran is presenting a report that highlights
abuses including a 20-year high in executions – almost 1,000 in 2015 – a
“widening crackdown on freedom of expression and opinion,” and mistreatment of
religious minorities such as Baha’i and Christian converts from Islam.
The
Australian - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been accused by many, Including
Australian human rights activists, of turning “a blind eye” to Iran’s human
rights abuses in her efforts to repatriate thousands of rejected
asylum-seekers.
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