Health and Hygiene

VOA – Iran has seen renewed poisonings of schoolchildren around the country in the first seven school days of the new Persian year after a holiday hiatus, leaving many Iranians angered but no closer to knowing who is behind the poisonings and why. In the latest poisonings that have mostly affected Iranian girls’ schools, VOA’s Persian service observed credible reports of incidents …

Al-Monitor — Several Iranian cities were rocked once again this week by a new wave of what has been called mysterious poisoning of mostly schoolgirls.   The new wave of gas attacks followed a brief respite during Iranian new year holidays, for which schools are closed for two weeks starting from late March. The cities targeted, according to opposition outlets and some …

Iranwire – On April 9, a wave of poisonings hit three girls’ schools in Iran’s north-western Kurdish city of Saqqez. Students’ families and other residents gathered outside one of the schools to protest the incidents, pulling down the Islamic Republic’s flag from the building and chanting slogans against the country’s clerical leaders. As a notification was sent to local media …

VOA – As schools in Iran reopen after the new year holiday, female students are again being targeted by chemical attacks. It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the poisonings, but some Iranians suspect that their own government is the likely culprit. The attacks have targeted schools across the country and students are poisoned by unknown substances that …

Iranwire – The sister of a French-Irish national who has been incarcerated in Iran for half a year is calling for his immediate release, saying he is in “poor” physical condition and risks losing his vision. Bernard Phélan sends text messages to his family every week, but his sister Caroline told IranWire that they are often difficult to decipher. “Bernard …

AL-Arabia – A rapper arrested in October on capital charges in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests needs urgent medical treatment, a rights group said Thursday, urging an international campaign for his release. The New-York based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) also said Toomaj Salehi was being deprived of his right to a fair defense in his trial, for …

Iranwire – More Iranian schoolgirls were taken to hospital on April 5 amid a wave of poisoning attacks that have hit more than 200 girls’ schools across the country over more than four months. In the central province of Fars, a video posted on social media showed several pupils from Esteghlal Girls’ School in Kohenjan being rushed to hospital in apparent …

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. …

VOA — Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalized Tuesday after the latest in a mysterious wave of poisoning attacks that have sickened thousands of pupils, state media reported. The girls were treated after suffering shortness of breath in Tabriz, the capital of the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan, reported the news agency IRNA. “Emergency experts were immediately dispatched to the scene after …

As the world is observing British-Iranian Vahid Beheshti’s hunger strike in front of UK’s Foreign Office reaching day 27 to ask the British government to proscribe the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) people should be aware of the seriousness of his actions. As a form of protesting injustice and performing a non-violent resistance, hunger strikes have been used throughout history …