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Editor's Note: To mark the publication of a book on President Xi Jinping's discourse on respecting and protecting human rights, a convention was held in Beijing recently where officials from the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, and some human rights experts and scholars held discussions with readers from home and abroad. Excerpts follow:Pursuit of a happy life best way to protect rights Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core has attached great...

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 – Iran’s judiciary has sentence a man to 50 lashes and six months in prison for taking part in a massive anti-government rally in the north-western city of Tabriz earlier this year. The man, identified as Taqi A., was handed down the sentence by a court in East Azerbaijan Province, the state-run news agency ILNA reported on Saturday. Taqi was accused of “disrupting the peace” and his sentence was upheld by an appeals court. In May, at least 100,000 Azeris rallied in the city of Tabriz against the publication of an insulting cartoon in the official...