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Iran-HRM – Three blinding sentences against two men and a woman are to be carried out, according to the state-run Hamshahri daily. According to the August 2nd Hamshahri daily, the cases of two men and a woman who were sentenced to blinding in the criminal courts of Kermanshah, Qom, and Fars were sent to Tehran to be carried out. Hamshahri …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime stepped up its crackdown on civil liberties amid severe economic pressure on Iranians. Dozens of members of Iranian civil society were arrested or began prison sentences in July, including family members of slain protesters, lawyers and acclaimed film directors. The clerical regime also continued horrendous daily executions. Meanwhile, the regime ramped up repression and harassed …

Amnesty – The international community must hold the Iranian authorities to account for the torrent of violence which their security forces unleashed on protesters in the south-west of Iran in May 2022 with complete impunity, Amnesty International said today.  The organization’s new research briefing “They are shooting brazenly”: Iran’s militarized response to May 2022 protests documents how Iran’s security forces unlawfully fired …

Al-Monitor – Spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanani criticized fresh American sanctions targeting his country’s economy, pledging “a decisive, firm and immediate response” from the Islamic Republic.   “Iran will adopt all necessary measures to neutralize those sanctions’ possible negative impacts on its trade,” Kanani said in a statement.   On Monday, the US Treasury announced new sanctions hitting some Chinese and Emirati companies facilitating …

Recently reports have emerged that Swedish-Iranian doctor Ahmadreza Djalali might be facing a release through prisoner exchange since Belgian parliament voted to sign a prisoner swap treaty with Iran (read more here https://english.shabtabnews.com/2022/07/04/iophr-urges-the-members-of-the-belgian-parliament-to-reconsider-and-prevent-a-judicial-cooperation-between-the-kingdom-of-belgium-and-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/). The prisoner swap agreement was signed by Belgium in the first place to secure the release of a Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, who was imprisoned in …