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Iranwire – A new directive issued by the Iranian Health Ministry has criminalized medical professionals acting as “accessories” to abortion. Those found to be “aiding and abetting” illegal abortions will face a heavy fine and disbarment. Saber Jabberi, head of Youth Population Department at the Ministry of Health, said of the policy as it came into effect on June 18: “If a …

Iranwire – In September 2020, ex-top judiciary official Akbar Tabari was sentenced to a  stunning 31 years in prison for “setting up and heading a bribery network”. In a months-long trial hugely publicized by Iranian state media and described as “the mother of all corruption cases”, Tabari and associates had been accused of facilitating serious bribery corruption in the judiciary, going back …

Iranwire – An ex-IRGC commander and MP has defended the right of Iranian security forces and police officers to carry weapons, saying their safety trumps that of society at large. Ismail Kowsari, who is deputy chief of the Guards’ Sarollah Base in Tehran and an adviser to the IRGC’s commander-in-chief, Hossein Salami, made the remarks in the context just as …

VOA – Iran executed more than 100 people in the first three months of 2022, continuing a worrying upward trend, according to a report by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that was presented Tuesday. Speaking before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, U.N. deputy human rights chief Nada Al-Nashif presented Guterres’ latest report on Iran, decrying that executions in the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Kurdish Political Prisoner, Firuz Musalou was secretly executed on charges of moharebeh in Urmia Central Prison after a trial that lasted just minutes. Neither his family nor his lawyer were informed of his scheduled execution and his body was secretly buried without being returned to the family. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns Firuz Musalou’s arbitrary execution and …