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Farzaneh and Dr Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlou are among those facing death penalty for involvement in the ongoing protests in Iran. The married couple were arrested a month ago after attending the 40-day ceremony of the death of young protester Hadis Najafi in Karaj, who was killed by security guards days after Amini’s death. The couple have, like sixteen other defendants, been …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR while expressing its abhorrence of Mohsen Shekari’s illegal execution , stated that “such appalling executions are part of the ruling regime in Iran’s implementation of the hateful policy of ‘victory through forced terror’, which will only increase the determination of the Iranian people to overthrow this inhuman regime and will only accelerate its overthrow.” …

Iranwire – Mohsen Shekhari, 23, was executed at dawn on December 8. The Iranian judiciary blamed him for setting fire to a trash can on Sattar Khan Street in western Tehran and for stabbing to death a member of the paramilitary Basij force. At least 10 other protesters are in imminent danger of execution. Dozens of other people are on …

Iranwire – IranWire has received reliable information confirming that at least 60 journalists have been detained since anti-government protests erupted across Iran in the middle of September. Thirteen of them have been released as of now. Other journalists have been summoned, threatened and had their electronic equipment seized. Security agencies of the Islamic Republic have reportedly requested the detained journalists …

Ever since the start of the current uprising in Iran the revolution has been described as leaderless, but it seems that the leader of this movement cannot be assigned an individual but rather resides in an energetic force binding people together in a forceful battle against a leaderless and oppressive government. This force has spread like a wind across the …

Iranwire – Veran Matic co-founded Serbia’s independent news outlet B92 in 1989, ahead of the 1990s Balkan Wars. He also chairs the Commission for Investigating Killings of Journalists in Sebia, established in 2013 on his initiative, and leads the B92 Fund, which is engaged in social and humanitarian activities. Over the span of three decades, he has received numerous prestigious …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities’ vague and conflicting statements on the supposed disbanding of Iran’s so-called “morality police” must not deceive the international community about the continuing violence against women and girls embedded in compulsory veiling laws and fuelled by ongoing impunity for those violently enforcing them, said Amnesty International today. During a press conference on 3 December 2022, Iran’s …

Al-Monitor – The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a state based on the revolutionary ideals of social justice, freedom and independence. Throughout the first two decades of its existence, the regime managed to generate considerable social capital by lifting the lower-income classes out of poverty and urbanizing a large section of the country’s rural areas. In fact, the urban population that …

gatestoneinstitute.org – A new book published in Tehran and praised by officials as a “major philosophical treatise” may suggest yes as an answer. The book by Islamic academic Jalal Sobhani, and titled From the Day Before Yesterday to the Day After Tomorrow, is marketed as “a journey in the political thoughts of Ahmad Fardid.” Fardid, who died in 1994, aged 85, …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The CCP, as the Chinese Communist Party is informally known, has now lost hearts across the country. China throughout the Communist period has witnessed demonstrations, but most of them are, as Burton noted, “highly localized” and “directed at malfeasance, corruption, and incompetence of lower level Communist functionaries.” Now, however, the anger is directed at the Party itself. In …