RadioFarda – WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump criticized social media companies on Friday for silencing “millions of people” in what he called an act of censorship.

radiofarda – GENEVA, Aug 24 (Reuters) U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks on Syria’s Constitutional Committee, to be held in Geneva on Sept. 11-12, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.

rferl.org – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized an EU economic aid plan for Iran, warning that the bloc will come to regret it.

IranHRM – Ali Badrkhani, a prisoner who went on hunger strike for 7 days on August 7, 2018 in protest to not being transferred to the political prisoners’ ward in addition to being under the pressure of prison authorities, was beaten by several dangerous crimes prisoners who were provoked by the ward authorities.

IranHRM – Iran executions: Prisoners executed at Gachsaran, Tabriz, Rajaei Shahr jails One prisoner identified as Keramat Hassani was hanged on Monday, August 20, at Gachsaran Prison on murder charges. Keramat Hassani and his family were the only residents of a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, southwest Iran. According to a close source to the family, Mr. Hassani’s family was attacked by …

IranHRM – Telegram activist Farrokh Abdi was sentenced by Branch 102 of the Criminal Court of Urmia to 15 months behind bars  for “insulting sanctities.”

IranHRM – On the evening of Monday, Aug 20, 2018, security forces raided the house of an environmental activist, Moslem Sobhani in Sanandaj and confiscated a number of his personal belongings while arresting and transferring him to an unknown location.

iranhumanrights – “They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, her sister-in-law, Fatemeh Khandan, and civil rights activist Mohammad Reza Farhadpour on August 18, 2018.

iranhumanrights – Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “this week,” according to his lawyer.

alarabiya – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who has been in prison in Tehran for more than two years on sedition charges, has been released for three days, her husband said Thursday.