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Month: November 2020

USCIRF launches the first annual International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Ministers’ Forum

Shabtabnews - In a twitter statement the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom: Promoting #ReligiousFreedom worldwide, Sam Brownback…

UN Watchdog Says Iran Has Again Breached Nuclear Deal With Step To Fire Up Centrifuges

RFL/RE - The UN's atomic watchdog says Iran has again breached its nuclear deal with major powers by firing up…

Iranian Activists Who Celebrated Ancient Persian Ruler’s Birthday Get Long Prison Terms

VOA- An Iranian court has sentenced three activists to long prison terms four years after they were arrested for celebrating…

Social Media Activist Faces Deportation After Fleeing Iran for Turkey

iranwire.com - Civil activist Somayeh Ramooz has been arrested in Turkey while trying to leave for a safer country, according…

Prisoner’s Fingers to be Cut Off as Punishment for Theft

iranwire.com - A juvenile found guilty of robbery is due to have the fingers of his right hand cut off…

Study Reveals Tehran’s Worst Street Crime Hotspots

iranwire.com - Petty crime rates have increased in many parts of Iran in line with rising unemployment and poverty, especially…

State Forces Fatally Shoot Kurd Man in West Iran

Iran-HRM - A Kurdish man was arbitrarily shot dead by the State Security forces in a Kurdish village on Tuesday…

Shocking Deaths of 6 Students Prompt Ban on Suicide Reports in Ramhormoz

IRAN-HRM - The Department of Islamic Culture and Guidance in the city of Ramhormoz issued a directive banning reporters and…

Iran: Prisoner Executed in Mashhad Prison

Iran Human Rights Organization- A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder during a mass family fight involving 50 people,…

Iran: Political Prisoner Zeinab Jalalian Transferred to Yazd Prison

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, has been transferred from the women's…