Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even the death penalty in a bid to quash Iran’s women’s rights movement, Amnesty International said today.

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    Human rights don’t exist. It is an abstract concept, not a realistic one. “Rights” is a Western concept. Go to the rest of the world, and there is no such thing as rights. It is a cultural truth, not a objective truth.