Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Rajai Shahr political prisoner Saeed Shirzad will remain in prison through 2020, according to HRANA reports.

Iran Human Rights – A prisoner was executed on October 2, at Qazvin Central Prison on murder charges. 

CHRI – Members of Iran’s deaf and hard of hearing community have launched a campaign urging the Iranian government to end systematic discrimination against their community by following steps that would fulfill Iran’s domestic and international obligations.

fastcompany-For exiles who want to get information in and out of the country, Iran International is one of several tools at their disposal to get around the regime’s jamming devices and the Great Persian Firewall.

aljazeera – Iran is facing growing domestic and international pressure as US sanctions on oil exports are about to take effect amid increasingly visible public discontent with the ruling elite.

TIME – “Child bride.” “Criminal.” “Juvenile offender.” These are some of the many labels assigned to Zeinab Sekaanvand during her far too short life. Sekaanvand, who was executed on Tuesday in Urumieh prison in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, was rarely seen for who she really was: a vulnerable young woman trapped in a cycle of violence and sexual abuse since childhood.

Shabtabnews – Sadegh Qaisari, a student who was arrested on the night of Golestan’s 7th protest in February  and was transferred to the # Fashafiyah Prison with hundreds of other Gonabadi dervishes, went on a hunger strike in protest of house arrest of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh the leader of Gonabadi Sufis and the general conditions of Dervish prisoners.

Radiofarda – While Iran’s parliament is preparing to vote on a bill restricting money laundering and support for terrorism demanded by the international community, the Friday Prayer Leaders across Iran bitterly attacked President Hassan Rouhani for backing the bill.

Radiofarda – Following the mass arrest of striking truck drivers in Iran, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) expressed its concern about the treatment of protesting truckers.

Al-Arabia – US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering sanction waivers for countries that are reducing their imports of Iranian oil, a US government official said on Friday.