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“No To Execution” Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran and Abroad

Iranwire – A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from Iranian civil society to abolish the death penalty in Iran, with a growing number of activists in and outside of the country announcing plans to go on hunger strike to make their voices heard. The campaign has grown since imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges …

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30,000 Iranian Disabled Children Are Left Out of School, Official Says

Iranwire – An Iranian deputy education minister has said that approximately 30,000 children with disabilities are unable to attend primary schools in the country. Speaking on January 26, Masoumeh Najafi Pazuki also said that 140,000 pupils dropped out of school last year, while media reports have put the figure at over 200,000. Pazuki attributed the discrepancy to “deficiencies in the …

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Report: Beijing Wants Tehran to Tell Houthis to “Show Restraint”

Iranwire – China has asked the Islamic Republic of Iran to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels, the Reuters news agency reported on January 26. Four unidentified Iranian sources and a diplomat were quoted as saying that the matter was raised at recent meetings between Chinese and Iranian officials in both …

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Tehran Student Handed Prison Term Amid Clampdown on Universities

Iranwire – The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master’s student in economics at the University of Tehran to one year in prison for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic, as the authorities are intensifying their efforts to control the universities’ population which has been at the forefront of the 2022 uprising. Parisa Salehi was also handed a …

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Elderly Iranian Prisoner Hospitalized After Heart Attack

Iranwire – An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran’s Evin prison to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Raheleh Rahemipour underwent an electrocardiograph on January 25 before being taken to hospital, Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner imprisoned in Evin, said on her Instagram account. The incident occurred as dozens of women political …

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