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Iranwire – On Wednesday, October 5, Iranian people turned out on the streets against the government for the nineteenth consecutive day. Unlike previous days when students protested in schools and universities, due to an official holiday in the Iranian calendar, educational centers were closed. At the same time, news published from Zahedan shows that the number killed in the protests …

Iranwire – The mother of a teenager, Nika Shakarami, who died during recent protests in Iran has denounced a state television report in which her family was forced to disavow claims that Nika was killed by security forces. Nasrin Shakarami, Nika’s mother, added that she had been threatened with also being made to appear in a similar forced broadcast. Nika, …

VOA – As protests flare across Iran over the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, the Kurdistan region of neighboring Iraq has paid a price, coming under bombardment from the Islamic republic’s forces. Their target is the long-exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition, installed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran in the 1980s. Tehran regards these …

CHRI – The following letter, signed by 21 human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, was sent on October 6, 2022, to the offices of U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the U.S. Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Download a PDF of the letter here.  LETTER TO PRESIDENT BIDEN ON IRAN: FULFILL …

CHRI – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, at least 1,200 people have been arrested, including at least 92 members of civil society who were not arrested at street protests, but instead arbitrarily detained at their homes or workplaces after Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i ordered “preventative detentions” on September 22, 2022, according to a list compiled by the Center …