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Iranwire – Detainees at Greater Tehran Penitentiary and Evin Prison have entered their 40th day of protests in the wake of the death of jailed writer Baktash Abtin. In an audio file sent to IranWire, inmate Hamid Haj Jafar Kashani read a statement dedicated to Abtin on behalf of the group, in which they reflect: “Maybe the next [to die in …

Iranwire – Two Christian converts in Tehran have had their request for a retrial rejected after they were given custodial sentences for practising their faith. Hadi Rahimi and Sakineh Behjati were summoned to begin their four- and two-year sentences on Wednesday after Branch 9 of the Supreme Court overturned their appeal. The pair were sentenced to prison by Branch 26 …

Iranwire – The Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), an organization controlled by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which controls extensive assets across Iran, is thought to be orchestrating an increasing number of confiscations of properties belonging to Iranian Baha’is. The Baha’i International Community (BIC) disclosed earlier today the latest example of this trend, in the province of Semnan, where a Revolutionary …

Iranwire – Ex-Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri shouted out in anger from the defendant’s bench at Stockholm District Court this week after a testifying witness described him as an “executioner”. The 60-year-old is standing trial in Sweden for war crimes and murder in connection with Iran’s 1988 prison massacre. That summer, thousands of Iranian political detainees, mostly members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) …

Al-Monitor – Talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna are now in what many observers have deemed their final stretch. But it’s far from a done deal, and US officials are warning that mere weeks remain before the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s (JCPOA) original nonproliferation benefits are lost. Naysan Rafati, the International Crisis Group’s senior Iran analyst, says “the …