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VOA – The German version of the television show The Voice had a special guest Saturday on its final episode of the season. Rana Mansour, an Iranian American singer, performed the protest song For, (Baraye) a song dedicated to Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died recently after being arrested by Iranian police. Amini was detained for wearing her headscarf “improperly.” Mansour performed …

Iranwire – The father of prominent Iranian activist Hossein Ronaghi was transferred to hospital after suffering a heart attack outside Tehran’s Evin prison, where his son was being held. The activist’s brother Hassan on November 5 tweeted a photo of his father lying on a hospital bed. He said he was expected to undergo surgery this week, adding: “The Islamic Republic is …

Iranwire – The authorities in the western Iranian city of Saqqez were forced to organize annual ceremony marking the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran indoors, after days of state-sponsored propaganda failed to bring residents out for the event. Saqqez is the hometown of Mahsa Amini, whose October 16 death in the custody of morality police sparked the …

Itanwire – Iranian authorities have rearrested university student Shahriar Shams and transferred him to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, as students across the country continued to defy a brutal crackdown by security forces on anti-government protests. According to IranWire sources, security officers early on November 5 stormed Shams’ residence without a valid arrest warrant, and leveled insults against his mother and …

gatestoneinstitute.org – By the time of this writing, we had the names of 385 protesters killed, including 40 women and 32 children, and 7 security men. A further 12,500 people have been arrested, according to statistics presented to the International Committee of the Red Cross. “People just don’t believe what our authorities say,” complains former Islamic Majlis (parliament) member Masud …