Iranian dissidents and ex-prisoners including a Western academic on Tuesday announced the filing of a civil suit in New York against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as he attended the UN General Assembly.The Islamic republic's hardline president is the target of the complaint for his role as a judge in the 1980s when thousands of people were sentenced to death in the country, according to the advocacy group National Union for Democracy in Iran. The suit had yet to be made public Tuesday evening by a US federal court in Manhattan.
NEW YORK CITY: As Iran is rocked by furious nationwide protests following the death on Friday of Mahsa Amini a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died after police beat her for “improperly” wearing the hijab President Ebrahim Raisi might have hoped to escape the anger swelling in his country while he attends the UN General Assembly in New York this week. But he faces the threat
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/PRNewswire/ Today at a private club in midtown Manhattan only hours after Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic in Iran arrived in Manhattan for.