Recall issued for 38,000 GM vehicles in Canada over software safety glitch
Transport Canada has issued a recall for 38,000 General Motors (GM) vehicles for safety risks related to a software glitch, the agency reported in a notice on Wednesday.
Iran has sentenced two women to death on charges of human trafficking, the country's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday, a penalty that sparked widespread condemnation online.
Authorities accused the women - identified as Zahra Sedighi and Elham Chobdar - of 鈥渃orruption on Earth,鈥 a term often used to describe attempts to undermine the Iranian government, saying they exploited young women. However, foreign-based rights groups described the two women as local gay and lesbian rights activists.
IRNA made no reference to the women's activism, reporting that they 鈥渕isused鈥 women and girls in promising better training and job opportunities abroad - a reference to human trafficking. A revolutionary court in the country's northwestern city of Urmia, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) northwest of Tehran, handed down the death sentences. The women have the right to appeal.
International rights watchdog Amnesty International identified Sedighi earlier this year as an 鈥淚ranian gender nonconforming human rights defender,鈥 describing her monthslong detention as stemming from her 鈥渟exual orientation and gender identity as well as her social media posts and statements in defense of LGBTI rights.鈥
Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norwegian-registered watchdog that monitors rights violations in Iran's western Kurdistan province, reported that security forces similarly detained Chobdar over 鈥減romoting homosexuality.鈥
Under Iranian law, crimes such as murder, rape, drug trafficking and sodomy can lead to the death penalty.
Along with China, the Islamic Republic is considered among the world's most prolific executioners. The UN's independent investigator on human rights in Iran warned last year that the country continues to execute prisoners 鈥渁t an alarming rate.鈥
Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, considered one of the most repressive places in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Fear of persecution is so strong that some gays and lesbians have sought and received asylum in other countries. Earlier this year, Iran reportedly executed two gay men on charges of sodomy.
Transport Canada has issued a recall for 38,000 General Motors (GM) vehicles for safety risks related to a software glitch, the agency reported in a notice on Wednesday.
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