Friday , 29 March 2024

Health and Hygiene

Iran to temporarily free 54,000 prisoners as coronavirus spreads

CNN – Iran will temporarily release 54,000 people from prisons and deploy hundreds of thousands of health workers as officials announced a slew of measures to contain the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak outside China.Pressure has been mounting on Iranian officials to take action against the virus as the death toll and number of cases rapidly shoots up. Iran has reported 92 deaths, as …

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Coronavirus Cases Reach Close To 3,000 In Iran, Death Toll On the Rise

Radiofarda – With 586 new patients tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19) during the past day, the total number of those identified with the virus in Iran has reached 2922, the Iranian Health Ministry announced on Wednesday March 4. At least 15 of the new patients tested positive for the virus have died. Dr. Kianush Jahanpur, a spokesman for the virus …

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US Senate Meeting on violations of human rights of minorities in Iran

Shabtabnews – Yesterday, there was a committee meeting in US senate chaired by  Ambassador Sam Brownback , the US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom , on human rights of religious minorities. Ambassador Sam Brownback (left) Dr Gharagozloo (Right) In this meeting which was attended by the representative fromInternational Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) ,Dr Hamid Gharagozloo , the violations of …

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Coronavirus has affected almost all Iranian provinces: Rouhani

Al-Arabia – An outbreak of novel coronavirus has affected almost all of Iran’s provinces, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, according to the official presidency website.“This disease is a widespread disease,” he said. “It has reached almost all our provinces and in one sense it’s a global disease.” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had said on Tuesday that the …

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Coronavirus outbreak in Iranian prisons

HRANA – On February 29, 2020, Ebrahim Raisi, the Chief Justice of Iran, issued an executive order of policies to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in prisons.  This order mandates giving 15 -30 days furlough to prisoners with sentences less than five years. Another part of this order is about reducing entries into prisons, temporary releases, and public activities in …

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Victims of Coronavirus held in proximity of dangerous criminals in Greater Tehran Penitentiary

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Amir Hossein Moradi who is one of the victims of Coronavirus has been transferred to Suite 11 of Ward 1 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. Amir Hossein Moradi was arrested during the protests in November 2019 and was sentenced to death. Saeed Tamjidi, Mohammad Rajabi, Milad Arsanjani, Jamil Ghahremani and 15 other protesters arrested in November 2019, have …

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One Iran Minister Accuses Another Of Deceit For Claiming It can Produce Millions Of Masks

Radiofarda -Iran’s Minister of Health has lambasted authorities at the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Trade (MIMT) for “deceitful” remarks regarding promises of producing large quantities of protective masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In a letter to his counterpart at the MIMT, Saee Namaki has rejected the claim that Iran was capable of manufacturing millions of medical masks …

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Britain, France, Germany Offer Iran 5 Million Euro Package To Combat Coronavirus

Radiofarda – A joint statement published by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Department for International Development (DID) on Monday says Britain, France and Germany are offering Iran a comprehensive package of material and financial support to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). “France, Germany and the United Kingdom express their full solidarity with all impacted by …

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