LONDON (AFP) - The British government said Friday it has taken down a blog posting by its ambassador to Lebanon praising late Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, saying her views clashed with official policy.
Ambassador Frances Guy wrote an obituary to Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, a former spiritual mentor of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah who was branded a "terrorist" in Washing [...]
LONDON (AFP) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke out Thursday against the "medieval" planned stoning to death for adultery of a woman in Iran, saying it would "disgust and appal" the rest of the world.
Hague commented on the case of 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. Human rights group Amnesty International has said she was convicted in 2006 or 2007 and has previously rec [...]
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