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Contraceptives Banned from Public Display in Iran

Iranwire – A week after medical staff “aiding and abetting” in abortions became a criminal offence in Iran, the authorities have issued a blanket ban on contraceptives being placed on public display. A letter from the Food and Drug Administration leaked on social media on Wednesday orders Iranian pharmacies to take stock of any contraceptive products such as condoms and “place them …

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Hacking Group ‘Predatory Sparrow’ Takes Down Steel Plants in Iran

Iranwire – On Monday two large Iranian steel firms, Mobarakeh Steel Company in Isfahan and Khuzestan Steel Industries, were reported to have been the target of large-scale cyberattacks. So severe was the impact on the latter that its production line temporarily ground to a halt. A hacktivist group calling itself Predatory Sparrow – an inverted echo of Iranian state-backed cyber-crime …

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Leaked Documents Reveal Wide Scope of China’s Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang

gatestoneinstitute.org – One of the leaked documents, which contains “a shoot to kill order” for guards in the camp’s watchtowers, confirms that these camps are indeed prisons. Another leaked report stipulates how detainees are to be transported from one site to an alternate location: ankle shackles, handcuffs and hoods. Previous leaks of official documents, unauthorized films, commercial satellite images and …

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Kurdish Political Prisoner Shaker Behrouz at Imminent Risk of Execution After Transfer to Unknown Location

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Kurdish death row political prisoner, Shaker Behrouz who was recently notified of the confirmation of his death sentence, has been transferred to an unknown location from his ward in Urmia Central Prison. His transfer has raised concerns that his execution may be imminent. Iran Human Rights calls for urgent international action to stop the execution of Shaker …

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Iran media publishes conflicting reports over status of nuclear talks in Qatar

Al-Monitor – According to Tasnim News Agency, the indirect talks in Qatar between Iran and the United States to revive the nuclear deal have come to an end without progress. An “informed source” quoted by Tasnim said that during the talks, which were mediated by the European Union, the US was not willing to budge on offering Iran “economic guarantees” in the …

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