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Iranwire – Yalda Moaiery, a well-known news photographer and a member of the Iranian Press Photographers Association, was arrested in Tehran during protests on Tuesday and taken to the notorious Qarchak Women’s Prison in Varamin. After news of Moaiery’s arrest surfaced on Wednesday, the Tehran Province Journalists’ Association issued a statement demanding her immediate release, saying she had been detained …

Iran-HRM – At least 11 protesters were shot and killed amid a violent state crackdown on protests over the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in police custody. Among those reported killed are two minors and a woman, shot dead when security forces opened fire on protesters.The protests spread to 86 cities on Wednesday, including the capital Tehran. Numerous images …

CHRI – On the sixth day of protests in Iran that have followed the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on world leaders to directly and publicly urge Iranian officials to immediately cease violently repressing the demonstrations, which have already resulted in at least nine reported deaths since September 16. “After killing hundreds of …

Amnesty – World leaders at the UN General Assembly must support calls for the establishment of an independent international investigative and accountability mechanism to address the prevailing crisis of impunity in Iran. Their urgent need for action was demonstrated most recently by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, and the barrage of gunfire unleashed on protesters which …

Al-Monitor – Social media posts coming out of Iran show that protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab laws, in reaction to the death of a young woman who died in police custody, have spread to multiple cities across the country.  The protests, now on their sixth day, erupted when Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by Iran’s morality police, …