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RSF Files Complaint with UN About Crackdown on Iranian Journalists

VOA – Reporters Without Borders, widely known as RSF, the French abbreviation of its name, said Friday it has filed a complaint with the United Nations about the arbitrary arrests of journalists in Iran and the attacks on reporters’ “freedom to inform.” The crackdown on journalists has come as demonstrations have sprung up across Iran following the arrest of a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 253 people, including 34 children and 19 women, have been killed in the ongoing nationwide protests. Repeating its call for urgent international action, Iran Human Rights reiterates that the longer the necessary United Nations-led steps take, the more lives are endangered. Iran Human Rights Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “There are no excuses for …

Al-Monitor – The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned an Iran-based foundation that maintains a multimillion-dollar bounty on Salman Rushdie, the British-American author attacked on stage in New York in August. In 1989, then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death over his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in his acclaimed novel “The Satanic Verses.” The …

Al-Arabia – The UN human rights office on Friday voiced concern about Iran’s treatment of detained protesters and said that authorities were refusing to release some of the bodies of those killed. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last month has ignited protests in one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution. Rights groups …

Al-Arabia – Anti-government protests resumed in the Iranian city of Zahedan on Friday with demonstrators chanting against Iran’s supreme leader as the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody continued across Iran. Videos posted on social media by the activist group 1500tasvir showed protesters chanting “death to Khamenei” in reference to Iran’s highest authority, Supreme Leader …

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Iranwire – On Wednesday, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic executed Anwar Khezri, a Kurdis…

Iranwire – The start of a new crackdown on women in Iran and the deployment of morality police…

Iranwire – Saeed Mousanejad, a master’s student entering his first year at Tehran Univer…

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Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nasir Hariri, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for …

Al-Arabia – The US said on Thursday that it was “very close” to reaching an agreement on the b…

iranintl – Iran is one of the world’s largest jailers of journalists, cementing itself a…

iranintl – In a bid to deny the latest revelations about the state murder of teenager Nika Sha…

iranintl – Israel carried out an airstrike on a target near Damascus Thursday night, in what s…

iranintl – A former Iranian regime operative and ideologue, currently residing in Canada, has …

iranintl – On Teacher’s Day, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic often boasts tha…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary executed at least 63 prisoners over the past…

Iranwire – Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh began a hunger strike in Evin Prison on…

Iranwire – The president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Mahmoud Aghamiri, announc…

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