Al-Monitor – Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei has told judges to avoid leniency and “unnecessary compassion” when it comes to prosecuting “the main elements of the riots,” as anti-government protests continued despite a deadly crackdown and crippling internet blackouts.   “Lenient verdicts will be injustice toward the public,” the hard-line cleric declared at a meeting in Tehran on Oct. 13. He advised …

Shabtabnews – On September 16th, Iran’s morality police arrested 22-year old Mahsa Amini for wearing improper hijab. The morality police reportedly beat Amini until she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a stroke. Upon learning of her death days later at a hospital in Tehran, Iranians across the country took to the streets in protest of the government’s brutal repression. Since …

RFL/RE – Top U.S. officials have met with representatives of technology companies to encourage them to work on ways to facilitate Internet access in Iran after a licensing change freed up the use of software and other technology used to circumvent Internet blockages. The United States issued a general license for such technologies last month and says they can be …

RFL/RE – An Iranian official has confirmed that several high school students arrested during the protests have been sent to reeducation camps to “educate and amend” their behavior after they were detained during anti-government demonstrations sparked by the death of a young woman in custody for allegedly wearing a headscarf incorrectly. Education Minister Yousef Nouri told the Shargh daily on …

Iranwire – A U.S. citizen on temporary release earlier this month from prison in Iran has been taken back into custody and returned to Tehran’s Evin prison, a lawyer for his family said on October 12. Siamak Namazi, 51, was temporarily released on a furlough on October 1 when his father, Baquer Namazi, 85, was permitted to leave the country …

Iranwire – Iran’s military and security agencies have been using ambulances as military vehicles to arrest and transport protesters and political rivals to detention centres, and to kidnap opponents, for decades. But only now has it been put under the spotlight. The country’s health ministry has said that protesters have attacked more than 60 ambulances since nationwide protests began following the death in custody of …

Iranwire – The number of dead killed in the latest round of public protests in Iran has passed 200, including dozens of children, a Norway-based human rights organization said Wednesday.  “According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, the number of protesters killed by security forces has risen to at least 201 people,” Iran Human Rights said in a statement. …

Iranwire – Women inmates in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison have backed the ongoing nationwide protests in Iran and condemned security forces for violently repressing the people.  Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist who has been repeatedly arrested in recent years for her work and public comments, and who is herself currently incarcerated in Evin, said people inside the prison …

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he Biden administration, even during the Iranian regime’s current brutal crackdown on its own citizens, and the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, are still seeking to revive the lethal “nuclear deal” — allowing the regime to enrich uranium to acquire an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them — and reassuring the mullahs …

Iran-HRM – Some 60 percent of arrestees in Qom are between 15 and 22 The Commander of the State Security Force of Qom Province acknowledged at a news conference that the age of 60 percent of those detained during protests in Qom is between 15 and 22 years old. These statistics only relate to the city of Qom. More than …