RFL/RE – Toomaj Salehi’s lyrical support for protesters in Iran has landed him behind bars before, but this time the popular rapper’s fortune-telling has fans and family members fearing for his life. Just days before his September 30 arrest, the 32-year-old Salehi released his latest music video, in which he makes foreboding predictions about the future of Iran’s clerical regime …

Iranwire – Iranian teenager Abbas Rajabi Hossein-Abad was hospitalized in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province’s capital, after being hit by several pellets during an anti-government earlier this week, IranWire reports. According to evidence shared by a local source, the 17-year-old was mistakenly shot by security forces after being recruited to participate in the violent crackdown against the protesters. In recent weeks, images …

Iranwire – At least two university students have died in suspicious circumstances in the southwestern Iranian city of Shiraz since the eruption of nationwide protests eight weeks ago. Official media raised eyebrows when they reported that one of the students committed suicide while the other died in a car accident. Young men and women, including university students, have been at …

Iranwire – Hundreds of IT business managers in Iran are urging the government to remove the severe Internet restrictions that have been imposed since the eruption of nationwide protests eight weeks ago. In a letter dated November 6 and addressed to hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, business owners and other people working in the field of information technology also called for …

Iranwire – Iran’s judiciary says the country’s courts will deal firmly with anyone who causes “disruptions or commits crimes” during the ongoing wave of anti-government protests. The courts will act with those arrested “in a firm, deterrent and legal manner,” spokesman Masoud Setayeshi said at a news conference in Tehran on November 8. Setayeshi said that cases have been filed …

Iranwire – Iranian security services have tried to extract forced confessions from a Baha’i prisoner amid a new wave of harassment against that faith. According to a report received by IranWire, Payam Vali was told he would be released if he agreed to confess to the charges against him during a televised confession. Vali is accused of spreading propaganda against …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Regime leadership shrewdly did not attempt to suppress the women-led protests in Iran with massive deployments of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and shoot-to-kill orders. Such a response might have run the risk of galvanizing even more Iranian men to join the protests. Instead, Tehran dispatched local police units and specially trained civilian, paramilitary Basij units — the regime’s …

Iran-HRM – A documentary on the Iranian regime’s use of shotguns against Iranian protesters The state security forces and plainclothes agents in Iran have been using brute force and obvious violence against protesters on the streets of Iran since September 17, 2022. The Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) commander has claimed that they only use non-lethal weapons to contain the protests. But evidence shows extra levels …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- Nematollah Barahouyi and Amanollah Alizehi, two Baluch men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Zahedan Central Prison. Mr Barahouyi was killed by prison guards for resisting execution, but his corpse was hanged to declare the cause of death as execution to avoid judicial consequences. According to Hal Vash, two Baluch men were executed …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s judiciary said female journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been charged with “collusion to act against national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”  The two have been in detention over their reporting on Mahsa Amini’s case, the 22-year-old woman whose death in morality police custody in September has triggered a popular protest movement.   “A decision on …