rferl.org – Ali Kazemi, 22, was recently executed in Iran for a murder he allegedly committed when he was 15. Share Executions and death sentences continued to drop globally in 2017 after hitting record-high levels in previous years, with Iran and Pakistan remaining among the world’s top five executioners, Amnesty International said on April 12.

rferl.org – A senior hard-line Iranian cleric has called for the execution of “several key money changers” to help end the country’s currency crisis.

iran-hrm – Mohammad Jazan Azizi, 21, who is detained in Zahedan Prison on charges of acting against national security was shot down his motorcycle

iranhumanrights – Following a recent flurry of public criticism of domestically made messaging apps, Iran’s supreme leader has issued a fatwa calling on the government and the Judiciary to protect citizens’ personal privacy rights.

radiofarda – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon Iran’s authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who is suffering medical complications resulting from a hunger strike.

rferl.org – Hundreds of farmers have demonstrated in the Iranian city of Isfahan over the lack of water available to irrigate their fields.

Radiofarda – A prominent Iranian economist says 33 percent of the country’s population live in absolute poverty, and six percent are starving.

Radiofarda – Iran said Tuesday the number of its soldiers killed in an air strike in Syria this week had risen to seven and that it would not go unanswered.

Radiofarda – The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described a strike on a military air base in Syria as “Israel’s crime” and said it would “not remain without response”, the Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel reported.

Radiofarda – Tehran’s city council accepted former Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi’s resignation at an April 10 meeting, and appointed his deputy, Samiollah Hosseini Makarem, as acting mayor, Iranian news agencies reported.