Iranwire – Iranian border guards have killed at least 11 Afghans who had illegally crossed into Iran, reports say. The carnage happened on March 11, when the border guards opened fire on a group of Afghan migrants who tried to reach the border town of Saravan in Sistan and Baluchistan province. The Baloch Activists Campaign, which covers news in the …
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Blinding As A Weapon (26): Dumped In An Alleyway After Being Shot, Tortured
Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …
Read More »Blinken Welcomes Iran-Saudi Agreement
VOA – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed optimism Wednesday about the re-establishment of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. “If this agreement actually bears out, and particularly if Iran follows through on the commitments that it’s apparently made, again, that would be positive,” Blinken said during a news conference at Addis Ababa University during a visit to Ethiopia. …
Read More »Iran: Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown
Amnesty – Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, said Amnesty International today. Marking six months of the unprecedented popular uprising in Iran, sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa …
Read More »138 Executions in 75 Days: Iran Human Rights Warns of Sharp Rise in Drug Executions
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 138 people have been executed in 2023 (two and a half months) in Iran. 88 of those were executed for drug-related charges. In the last fortnight alone (1-15 March), at least 29 people (an average of two a day) were executed in Iranian prisons. Iran Human Rights warns of the high number of …
Read More »Salman Momeni Executed for Drug Charges in Arak
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Salman Momeni, a man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Arak Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Arak Central Prison on March 12. His identity has been established as Salman Momeni from Ilam. He was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the …
Read More »Iran schoolgirl poisonings: Toxicologists, experts weigh in
Al-Arabia – Iran’s government has arrested more than 100 people who it believes are responsible for a mystery illness that has affected potentially thousands of the country’s schoolgirls, with many attributing the sickness to poisoning.As videos continue to emerge online of distressed young people being taken to clinics and hospitals, toxicologists, chemical-weapons researchers, epidemiologists, and political scientists have explored possible explanations, in …
Read More »A Baha’i Grandmother Starts Her Second Decade in Prison
Iranwire – Mahvash Shahriari Sabet, a 70-year-old Baha’i teacher and poet, mother and grandmother, is perhaps even more renowned among people outside Iran than in her own country. She spent 10 years of her life in Iranian prisons, from 2008 to 2017, solely based on her religious beliefs, before her latest arrest on July 31, 2022. Most of her poems …
Read More »Iranian Top Security Official To Visit UAE On March 16
Iranwire – The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council will visit the United Arab Emirates on March 16, Iranian media report, at a time of growing rapprochement between Tehran and Sunni monarchies in the Persian Gulf. Ali Shamkhani “will travel to Abu Dhabi on Thursday in response to an official invitation by his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed …
Read More »Blinding As A Weapon (25): The Phoenix Who Rose From Her Ashes
Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …
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