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RFL/RE – Kurdish traders known as Kulbars make the hazardous journey from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan, earning just enough money to survive. Some have fallen to their deaths. More have been killed by Iranian border guards, with 52 killed in 2021, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. https://www.rferl.org/a/kurdish-traders-brave-a-killing-field-on-iran-iraq-border/31793512.html

Iranwire – Recently a student named Maryam Karimbeigi was expelled from university, amid reports the Intelligence Ministry had opened a case against her. Her brother, Mostafa Karimbeigi, was killed by security forces during the 2009 pro-democracy protests in Iran. Maryam was informed of her expulsion from Islamic Azad University’s science branch on Sunday, April 10. Earlier, on February 21, intelligence agents had again raided …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi who was sentenced to death for taking part in peaceful protests, died in a hospital today. He suffered a stroke in January after being injected wrong medicine in Dastgerd prison of Isfahan where he was detained since arrested. Authorities delayed his transfer to the hospital, putting him at grave risk of death. He was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh-Shahrokhi who was arrested in relation to the December 2017/January 2018 nationwide protests, has died under suspicious circumstances in the custody of Isfahan Central Prison. Stressing that extrajudicial killings have become a common and low-cost way for the Islamic Republic to physically eliminate its dissidents in recent years, Iran Human Rights calls for …

Al-Monitor – After a chain of deadly attacks inside Israel, commander of Iran’s Quds Force Esmail Ghaani declared that Tehran will support any group fighting Israel. “We have made it clear to the occupying Zionist regime that any group fighting it will have our blessing,” the hard-line commander added, praising new generations of “Palestinian youths who have shaken the occupied territories.” Several Israeli …