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Iranwire – Farideh Moradkhani, a human rights activist and niece of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been detained in the Iranian capital. According to Iranian human rights advocates, she was arrested on her way home on Thursday, January 13 by Tehran Ministry of Intelligence agents. HRANA reports that officers also raided Moradkhani’s home and confiscated some of her personal belongings. …

Iranwire – The number of children aged under five in Sistan and Baluchistan who are underweight or have stunted growth is on the rise, health officials have warned. In a report on issues of malnutrition in the province, ILNA news agency put the official figure, which only counts those youngsters who have registered with a health center, at 12,000. Seyed …

Iranwire – Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has reported that in 2021, at least 17 Iranian Kurds died in the country’s prison system, 10 of them under torture. Three of the 17, Hengaw said, were political prisoners whose bodies had never been turned over to their families. Others were in prison on charges including drug trafficking, financial offences and murder. The prisons they died …

Iran-HRM – The state security forces shot and killed an Ahwazi Arab man in the city of Hoveyzeh, southwest Iran. On January 12, security forces shot and killed Mohammad Obaidawi on suspicion of smuggling weapons in Hoveyzeh, Khuzestan Province. According to local sources, after killing the citizen, security forces did not find any weapons with him.Obaidawi’s family received his body …

Iran-HRM – Recent reports indicate a new wave of COVID-19 outbreak inside notorious Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, capital of Iran Khuzestan province. Prison authorities have tried to cover up the scale of the outbreak and left sick prisoners in women’s ward of the prison without medical care. Despite the new wave of outbreaks, prisoners are not tested for the virus. …