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CHRI – On December 20, Iranian authorities executed Samira Sabzian, 32, who was detained in Gharchak prison in Tehran province. Sabzian, the mother of two, was convicted in 2016 of murdering her husband. According to Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based human rights organization, Sabzian was a 15-year-old girl when she was married to her husband, and suffered domestic violence. She was only 19 at …

CHRI – Iranian civil and political activists, forced to flee political persecution in the Islamic Republic, face expulsion from their refuge in Turkey and extradition back to Iran. Given the grave concerns for their fate, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges immediate international assistance to prevent their forcible return to a country marked by severe human rights …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – In a video interview, Yahya Ebrahimi, the Delfan MP said: “Around 1000 to 2000 young people are on death row for selling drugs in this county” and “are about to be executed.” Delfan’s population is around 144,000 people. Iran Human Rights considers such high number of death penalty cases in a city of that size …

iranintl – Iran’s Supreme National Security Council ordered newspapers Tuesday night to stop writing about the recent $3.7 billion corruption case that has rattled public opinion. Nonetheless, three Iranian newspapers ignored the censorship order and ran editorials on the biggest corruption case in several decades in their Wednesday issues. The case involved a tea company receiving billion of dollars from the government …

iranintl – The IRGC was plotting to assassinate two Iran International television anchors in London in 2022 amid Iranian anti-government protests, UK’s ITV has revealed. The plan was foiled because the man hired to do the job turned out to be a ‘double-agent’ working for a western intelligence agency. He would relay all information to his handler and has now …