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Amnesty International | June 11, 2020 The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty ...
Amnesty International | 12 May 2020 Iranian university student Ali Younesi has been arbitrarily detained since 10 April 2020. His family believes he is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison, where he has been denied access ...
Fox News | Christopher Carbone | March 26, 2020 The Iranian regime’s cover-up of the spread of coronavirus has resulted in an unprecedented catastrophe in the country, a group of 21 Nobel Laureates warned Monday in a scathing ...
Financial Times | Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran | MARCH 3, 2020 Islamic regime isolated and under pressure as outbreak spreads In less than two weeks the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran has jumped from two ...
Radio Farda | January 4, 2020 Iran Chess Federation on January 2 expelled veteran Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour for boldly removing her scarf during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow which ...
Reuters | Reuters Staff | December 23, 2019 (Reuters) – After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient. Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an ...
Radio Farda | Dec. 1, 2019 As the reported death toll form protests in Iran climbs higher, bringing widespread recriminations, some officials appear to be trying to contain the anger by walking back their earlier harsh ...
Written by Amir Taghati on 30 August 2019 Iran’s regime hanged eight people ‘en masse’ on Wednesday, August 28 in Gohardasht (Raja’i Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the capital Tehran. The victims were identified as: Alireza Araei, Alireza Behrad, ...
Amnesty International | 1 August 2019 The flogging of Kurdish singer and prisoner of conscience Peyman Mirzazadeh 100 times demonstrates the shocking brutality of Iran’s justice system, said Amnesty International. Peyman Mirzazadeh had been sentenced to two ...
ArticleEighteen | July 8, 2019 Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on Monday, 1 July. The arresting officers introduced themselves as agents from the Ministry ...