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Iran-HRM – Security forces of Kermanshah, western Iran, have raided the residences of the relatives of a Kurd witness who testified in Aban International Court investigating the bloody crackdown on the protests in Iran in November 2019. The security forces searched their houses and interrogated the residents. Sohbatollah Omidi, who was arrested during the November 2019 protests, announced: “In the past few …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi who was recently briefly furloughed after undergoing heart surgery, has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8). Reiterating that no civil activist should be harassed or imprisoned for their human rights activism, Iran Human Rights considers Narges Mohammadi’s summons to be playing with her life in light of her current …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Human rights defender Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb has been on a hunger strike in Ward 4 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary since his arrest on February 21. According to relatives, he is in a worrying physical condition and has been attacked by violent crime prisoners. Civil activist, Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb, one of the 14 signatories who signed a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vahid Mousavi, sentenced to qisas for murder, was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison yesterday and four others were returned to their cells after last minute extensions in their cases. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men were taken to the gallows on the morning of March 3 in Rajai Shahr Prison. Of the five, …

RFL/RE – Maryam Behtarpur lived a quiet life with her husband and three children in northwestern Iran, when her world was turned upside down in November 2019. That was when her eldest son, 27-year-old Farzad Ansarifar, was killed while returning from work just as the state was cracking down on protests against the country’s repressive clerical establishment.The family spoke up …