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Shabtabnews – IOPHR has initiated a petition for the unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Maryam Akbari Monfared. See below: Maryam’s Story Iranian Human Rights Activist Maryam Akbari Monfared was arrested on 31 December 2009 and was forcibly disappeared for five months. She was detained in solitary confinement for the first 43 days of her imprisonment and interviewed without access to …

Al-Arabia 0 Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator on Thursday met the European Union’s Enrique Mora, who coordinates indirect talks between Tehran and Washington on reinstating Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian state media reported. Both Tehran and Washington have played down the prospect of a breakthrough in the talks, which were suspended in March over several remaining thorny issues. …

Iranwire – At least 95 people have been killed in floods that swept Iran over the past week, according to the country’s Forensic Medicine Organization. Some 25 Iranian provinces have been affected by the heavy rains that led to severe flash-flooding, landslides and mudslides. Search and rescue teams from the Iranian Red Crescent are active in 661 separate locations. Around 20,000 homes …

Iranwire – Police and plainclothes officers in the city of Ramshir, Khuzestan province descended on the homes of two brothers of Arab origin, Isa and Ibrahim Amouri, arresting them both and taking them to an as-yet unknown location. The pair had organized a widely-attended public mourning ceremony for their late cousin, Majid Amouri, on June 7 this year. Majid was …

Iranwire – On Sunday, Ministry of Intelligence agents carried out coordinated raids on the homes of a number of Baha’is in different cities in Iran. Several of the targets were arrested during the searches. Among them were three former Iranian Baha’i community leaders, Fariba Kamalabadi, Mahvash Sabet and Afif Naimi. All three had already served 10 years in prison, and had been …