CHRI – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who face severe punishments without access to due process, are part of the state’s efforts to slander the country’s protest movement and should be strongly condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “This witch hunt is a cowardly attempt …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 277 people, including 40 children and 24 women have been killed in the ongoing nationwide protests. Underlining the high death toll, Iran Human Rights warns about the condition of detainees and heavy sentences including the death penalty. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Instead of accepting people’s legal demands, the Islamic Republic is clamping down …

Al-Monitor – The Ekbatan residential complex in west Tehran resembled a war zone late Monday as Iranian security forces took aim at apartments with bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, according to videos posted online by monitoring groups.    Riot police and paramilitary hard-line Basij forces raided the middle-class district to shut down protest shouts from windows. Nightly chanting has been trending as an alternative and …

Al-Arabia – The leader of an Iranian Arab opposition group who was assassinated in the Netherlands in 2017 had warned Dutch police his life was in danger at least seven times prior to his killing, Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported on Tuesday. Ahmad Mola Nissi, a leader in the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA), was shot dead …

RFL/RE – Iran has announced the arrest of rapper Toomaj Salehi, one of the most prominent artists in the country to support the current wave of anti-government protests. Security authorities announced that the rapper was arrested on October 30 while attempting to flee the country. Salehi’s uncle denied the claim, saying his nephew was arrested in the southwestern Iranian province of Chaharmahal …

RFL/RE – Data from the Tehran Stock Exchange shows that almost $120 million in capital has been withdrawn from the market in the past 10 days amid unrest that poses the deepest threat to the leadership of the Islamic republic since the revolution in 1979. According to the EcoIran news website, which covers economic news in Iran, $28 million was pulled out of …

Iranwire – Canada has imposed a fourth package of sanctions against the Iranian clerical regime over what it called “ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations and continued actions to destabilize peace and security.” The new sanctions list includes four individuals and two entities believed to be involved in human rights abuse “either in Iran or in the regime’s malign …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have banned a prominent professor of Persian literature who has voiced support for students’ demonstrations from teaching, amid a brutal crackdown in universities and other higher education institutions. On October 26, Dr. Iraj Mehraki was prevented from entering the Islamic Azad University of Karaj after refusing to backtrack his support for the protesting students. “You are …

Iranwire – Javad Heydari should have blown out the candles of his 40th birthday cake today – instead it is the 40th day since he was killed. Iranians mark 40 days after a person’s death as part of the traditional mourning process.  Heydari, from Elvand, a suburb of Qazvin, was killed when he was shot by security forces in the early …

Iranwire – Mohammad Ghobadlo, a protester who was arrested on the charge of “corruption on earth” after participating in an anti-government rally, was sentenced to death after just one hearing, his mother said on Monday.  “My son is only 22 years old and he is also ill. They deprived him of having a lawyer and do not allow lawyers to …