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Muslim Word League Chief Holds High-level Talks with Thai Officials

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa hold meetings with Speaker of the House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai and heads of parliamentary committees in Bangkok on Monday (AAWSAT AR)
Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa hold meetings with Speaker of the House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai and heads of parliamentary committees in Bangkok on Monday (AAWSAT AR)
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Muslim Word League Chief Holds High-level Talks with Thai Officials

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa hold meetings with Speaker of the House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai and heads of parliamentary committees in Bangkok on Monday (AAWSAT AR)
Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa hold meetings with Speaker of the House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai and heads of parliamentary committees in Bangkok on Monday (AAWSAT AR)

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa and an accompanying delegation visited Thailand on Monday at the invitation from the Thai government.

Al-Issa met with Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha. He also held talks with former Thai prime minister and incumbent Speaker of the House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai.

The talks were attended by heads of parliamentary committees and members of the parliament.

The officials held an expanded meeting over several issues of mutual interest and means to expand bilateral cooperation.

Also, Al-Issa also met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. The two discussed several issues of mutual interest and set frameworks to activate cooperation.

The secretary-general later visited the Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok where he met with Thai Minister of Culture Itthiphol Khunpluem.

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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early on Monday.

Salehi had been sentenced to death in April by a revolutionary court on charges linked to unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023, although Iran's Supreme Court overturned that sentence in June.

His songs eulogized months-long protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for allegedly wearing an "improper" headscarf that flouted Iran's religious dress code.

Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of the nationwide protests.

Amini's death in September 2022 unleashed protests that posed the biggest challenge to the Iran’s clerical leaders in decades.

A United Nations fact-finding mission said in March that Amini's death was unlawful and was caused by "physical violence in the custody of state authorities". It added that Iranian women still suffer systematic discrimination.