iranhr.net – According to IHR sources, on the morning of Thursday, January 16, two men were hanged at the central prison of the Iranian city of Borujerd, Lorestan province. IHR can confirm the identity of one of the prisoners as Heshmat Sheikhani, 31.  IHR will report about the second man’s identity as soon as the organization could confirm it.  In …

radiofarda – Fourteen people arrested for protesting the January 8 downing of a passenger plane by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, are detained at an unknown location and there is no news about their well-being. Five of the detainees are women. The arrests took place in Amol, northern Iran on January 11, when protests started in several cities. Iranian website Zaytoon reports …

radiofarda – The commander of Revolutionary Guard’s business conglomerate in Iran has proposed building ten more refineries, which would signal a major expansion of the military’s role in the country’s most important economic sector. Saeed Mohammad, the commander of Khatam al-Anbia told Fars news agency close to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) that “The joint headquarters of the armed …

radiofarda – President Donald Trump has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be “very careful with his words” after the Iranian called the U.S. leader a “clown” during a rare sermon he delivered earlier on Friday. “The so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United …

rferl.org – Iran has confirmed it will send the black-box flight recorders recovered from a Ukrainian passenger jet that was shot down over Tehran on January 8 to Kyiv. Hassan Rezaifer, head of the accident investigations unit of Iran’s civil aviation authority, told the Tasnim news agency on January 18 that it had not been possible to read the black …

rferl.org – At least two demonstrators were killed and 24 others hurt during clashes with security forces in central Baghdad in a new flare-up of protests against the country’s political elite and widespread corruption. Security sources told Western news agencies that one protester was killed on January 17 as demonstrators attempted to cross the strategic Sinek Bridge in the center …

rferl.org – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will provide quick funds to the families of 57 citizens and 29 permanent residents of the country who died when a Ukrainian jetliner was shot down in Iran last week. Trudeau on January 17 said that, although Canada will provide C$25,000 (US$19,122) to the Canadian-tied victims’ families, he still expects …

iranhumanrights – The family of Mohammad Hashamdar, who was killed by a bullet in Behbahan, in Khuzestan Province, on November 16, 2019, during the violent state crackdown on the unrest that roiled the country at that time, is planning to file a lawsuit to seek justice, according to his sister Pouran Hashamdar. He was one of at least six people who were killed in …

alarabiya – Two protesters were killed and over a dozen wounded in central Baghdad on Friday in renewed violence between anti-government demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, activists and officials said. The deaths follow weeks of calm. Riot police fired tear gas and hurled sound bombs to disperse crowds on the strategic Sinak Bridge after protesters attempted to breach cement barriers …

radiofarda – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday urged Iran to send the black boxes from the passenger plane shot down by its forces to France for analysis and said the first remains of victims should soon arrive back in Canada. Trudeau told a news conference in Ottawa that France was one of the few countries with the ability …