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Iranwire – The uncle of Pooya Bakhtiari, a victim of the bloody state crackdown on protests that rocked Iran in November 2019, says his sister’s house was auctioned off after being forfeited in return for his temporary release from prison. The uncle, Mehrdad Bakhtiari, posted a video on social media on November 28 in which he expresses his outrage in …

Iranwire – The head of Iran’s deaf sports federation was dismissed from his post this week after images emerged of a foreign woman athlete without a compulsory headscarf at a tournament in Tehran. Mehran Tishehgaran was removed from his position “due to events that happened in the Asian Deaf Athletics Championships,” the semi-official ISNA news agency said late on November …

Iranwire – Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi says a Revolutionary Court in the northeastern city of Mashhad has sentenced him to one year in prison, followed by a two-year exile to Nehbandan. The presiding judge, Hadi Mansouri, accused Alikordi of “engaging in propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic in favor of anti-system groups” through interviews with foreign media and social …

Iranwire – Hackers believed to be sponsored by the Iranian government are targeting civil society groups inside and outside of Iran in the “largest and most coordinated impersonation and phishing campaign” since the outbreak of nationwide protests last year, according to a Texas-based group that advocates for human rights in Iran. Miaan Group says in a report published earlier this week that …

RFL/RE – The families of 13 Iranian political and civil activists detained in East Azerbaijan Province have accused Iranian authorities of failing to grant access to lawyers for their relatives while charges remain unclear. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, Ayoub Shiri, brother of detained activist Davoud Shiri, said that since his brother’s arrest outside his Tabriz home on September 22, …