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Iranwire – Thirteen years ago this week, the body of 26-year-old student Neda Agha-Soltan was laid to rest at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. The young woman was fatally shot in the chest on July 20, 2009 after attending pro-democracy protests in Tehran with her music teacher, in the aftermath of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election as president of Iran. Her horrific death was captured on video …

Iranwire – At least four female inmates have been infected with tuberculosis at Qarchak Prison, human rights activists report. Cramped, unsanitary conditions at the notorious facility in Varamin, where inmates recently spoke to IranWire about squalid cells and sadistic treatment by the guards, have given rise to fears the disease could spread quickly through the prison population. Atena Daemi, a …

Iranwire – In the last half-decade, a greater degree of scholarly attention has been paid to street protests in Iran in their various forms. From the nationwide protests of 2017 until today, universities, government journals and think-tanks have published dozens of studies on the nature and direction of civil unrest in Iran, and what lies behind it. The latest of …

Iranwire – On July 27, 2021, media outlets affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) reported that two members of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) had been killed and three others injured in an armed clash with IRGC forces in West Azerbaijan. The IRGC contingent hailed from the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada Base near Bukan. Their opponents were not …

Iran-HRM – Iran Mansouri, daughter of political prisoner Mohammad-Ali Mansouri sought the help of the international community to save her father, who is being held in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, near the capital of Iran. In her letter, Iran Mansouri referred to her father’s dire health and said he was still being held in prison, despite the advice of …