Iran-HRM – Sanandaj Central Prison riot leaves at least 20 inmates injured including Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi. 

Al-Arabia – Iran has the ability to extend the range of its missiles, which currently have a 2,000-km reach, the Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday.

Al-Arabia – UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Tuesday that the Qatari-Iranian rapprochement was no longer hidden.

RFL/RE – Israeli authorities have arrested a former cabinet minister once imprisoned for trying to smuggle drugs, this time on suspicion of spying for archfoe Iran, the country’s internal security service says. The Shin Bet security service said in a June 18 statement that Gonen Segev was indicted on charges of “committing offenses of assisting the enemy in war and …

Iran Human Rights –  Reports suggest that after the execution of Mohammad Salas, five other prisoners who were sentenced to death on murder charges were also hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison today. One of the prisoners was charged with the murder of an eight-month-old child named Benita.

CHRI – Lawyer: Burial Attended by “200 Anti-Riot Agents” Iranian authorities buried the body of Mohammad Salas after he was executed on June 18, 2018, without his family’s permission at a burial presided by security agents, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “They denied us our last visit… They executed our father… Then they called us …

CHRI – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh call to Iran to annul the death sentence imposed on Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid reports that he will be executed after the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

CHRI – At the 11th annual session of the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities held at the United Nations headquarters in New York (June 11-14, 2018), the head of the Welfare Organization of Iran (WOI), Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpey, gave a speech on Iran’s actions and achievements in defending the rights of persons with disabilities. 

CHRI – Human Rights Lawyer Threatens to Remove Hijab in Protest After Supporters Beaten Outside Prison Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is facing two national security charges for representing women facing prison time in Iran for peacefully protesting against the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab law. “During the interrogation, she was told that the charges against her are ‘propaganda …

l-Monitor – The former chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, Hassan Firouzabadi, is squatting in a mansion that belonged to the former Shah of Iran, according to a letter published by a conservative university group.