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PayvandNews – With the aim of expressing appreciation for the medical staff from around globe, the Iran’s National Instruments Orchestra performed “The Avicenna Suite” by maestro Farhad Fakhreddini. The work has been recorded and edited by cell phone at home. Iran National Orchestra plays Hossein Dehlavi’s “Sabokbal” piece in quarantine to appreciate Iran’s health protectors. Presented by: Roudaki Artistic Cultural Center.

RFL/RE – Iran’s Health Ministry has announced that religious shrines will remain closed in what appears to be a blow to influential hard-line clerics who are pushing for the sites to reopen amid efforts to contain one of the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreaks.“Until there’s full assurance that pilgrims to religious sites will not face problems, we won’t allow ourselves …

RFL/RE – The editor in chief and a social-media administrator of Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency were detained last week over a cartoon deemed insulting to the country’s leadership. The cartoon, which appeared to mock Iran’s highest authority, was reportedly removed from ILNA’s Telegram channel shortly after being posted. ILNA’s editor in chief, Masud Heydari, has been released on bail …

Radiozamaneh – The UN Human Rights Special Procedures, a group of UN experts, have appealed to de facto authorities in Yemen to accelerate the unconditional release of Baha’i prisoners. Earlier in March, Mahdi al-Mashat, leader of the Huthi authorities in Yemen, pardoned Hamed bin Haydara who had been sentenced to death by a Houthi-run court. Al-Mashat also dropped all charges …

CHRI – Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as RajabiPrisoners Held on Politically Motivated Charges Excluded from Reported Prisoner Releases April 23, 2020 – Iranian authorities should immediately provide hospital treatment for an arbitrarily imprisoned conservationist who reportedly has COVID-19 as well as test and ensure treatment …

Radiofarda – The Commander of Tehran Coronavirus Combat Taskforce on Thursday warned that adopting a more relaxed approach to social distancing and movement restrictions is sending the wrong message to people, making them believe that COVID-19 has come under control while fatalities are on the increase again. More than 6,300 people visited hospitals and about 400 were hospitalized in Tehran …

An Iranian man calling himself an Islamic prophetic medicine healer has prescribed drinking camel urine to prevent and cure COVID-19. In a video now widely shared on social media Mehdi Sabili who is also the chairman of prophetic medicine society treats himself to camel urine and says it must be taken “fresh and warm”. There has been a strong reaction …

CHRI – Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in state custody, while the judge who holds the power to free her is unreachable, according to her lawyer. Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable “We find it unacceptable that this young woman has …

Iran-HRM -Hundreds of Iran’s security and IRGC Basij forces, attacked people Tuesday, when a crowd intervened to prevent them from destroying locals’ houses in west of the country. The incident occurred in Falakdin neighborhood of Khorramabad, capital of Lorestan Province, when hundreds of security forces along with IRGC Basij members and municipality agents headed by the city’s prosecutor started to demolish …

The U.S. Navy says 11 vessels of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made “dangerous and harassing approaches” toward U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf.The U.S. ships were in international waters carrying out exercises at the time of the incidents on April 15, the U.S. 5th Fleet said on Twitter. One of the IRGC vessels came within about 10 …