Iranwire – On April 21, Iranian media reported the death of a three-year-old girl who had fallen into a sewage well in Ahvaz, the capital of south-western Khuzestan province.  The girl, named Jenan, opened the door of her father’s car while her family was shopping for the holiday of Eid-al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, and fell into the unprotected …

Iranwire – Iran gained full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), as the Eurasian security and political grouping led by China and Russia seeks to expand its reach and counter Western influence in the region. “The member states stressed the historical significance of the admission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the SCO as a full Member State,” …

VOA – Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have asked the International Court of Justice to hold Iran responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane over Tehran that killed all on board and provide compensation to the families of those killed. The ICJ made public Wednesday the filing in which the four governments say Iran did not take “all …

VOA —Andy Murray said he had an emotional meeting with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent six years in an Iranian jail cell, after inviting her to watch him from the royal box at Wimbledon on Tuesday. British-Iranian Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Murray became friends after she said in an interview last year that watching the Scot win Wimbledon on television in 2016 helped …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Abbas Rashgi and Saber Moghadami have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions for drug-related charges in Shiraz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 4 July in preparation for their executions in Shiraz Central Prison. Their identities have been established as …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least three drug death row inmates have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Karaj Penitentiary. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least three men were transferred to solitary confinement on 4 July in preparation for their executions in Karaj Penitentiary. The three unidentified men were sentenced …

Al-Monitor – The Iranian president’s order for action came in response to fast-growing defiance from a new generation of women challenging the strict dress code, which has been a fundamental pillar of the ruling theocracy.  Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said violation of his country’s mandatory hijab was an “enemy conspiracy” and called for legal action against women found to be in breach …

RFL/RE – The fate of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested during the recent nationwide protests, hangs in the balance as a court considers a verdict and a possible death sentence after holding a closed-door trial on charges widely seen as politically motivated. Salehi, considered by many as the voice of the unrest that has rocked Iran’s Islamic leadership …

Iranwire -Valida Yusifova, a Azerbaijani woman imprisoned in Iran for six months, was recently transferred to a psychiatric hospital after being subjected to mental torture and other cruel treatment, her mother says.  Yusifova, 31, was arrested in December 2022 after traveling from Turkey to Iran. She was initially accused of holding improper identification documents, but she later faced drug-related and …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces arrested Hossein Yazdi, the director of the Iran Times news agency, his daughter Saba said on her Twitter account, amid a crackdown on dissent and the media.  There is no immediate information about the reasons for Yazdi’s arrest, the security agency behind it and the journalist’s whereabouts. Yazdi was previously arrested on December 5, 2022, …