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RFL/RE – For nine years, Gohar Eshghi has been grieving and seeking justice for the death of her son, Sattar Beheshti, an Iranian blogger who died in police custody in 2012. But Eshghi’s fight to bring the perpetrators to justice has put her and her family directly in the authorities’ crosshairs. On November 3, Eshghi and her daughter, Sahar Beheshti, …

Iranwire – he internet is a threat to the security of the Islamic Republic, and the country will become increasingly vulnerable and unstable if people continue to use it, government officials have claimed. Speaking to the authors of a new study published in the National Defense Strategic Management Studies quarterly journal, government security experts highlighted the dangers of social media in particular. The research …

Iranwire – Thursday, November 4 marked the 12th day of a renewed hunger strike by Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held hostage by Tehran since 2016. For almost two weeks now Mr. Ratcliffe has protested outside the Foreign Office in London against his wife’s continued detention, calling on the UK authorities to take action. Nazanin, a …

amnesty – Activists German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi and British-Iranian Mehran Raoof have been arbitrarily detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since 16 October 2020, solely for peacefully exercising their human rights. In August 2021, a Revolutionary Court convicted them of national security related charges and sentenced them to 10 years and eight months in prison, following a grossly unfair trial. Nahid Taghavi …

Al-Monitor – The Biden administration on Thursday approved a $650 million sale of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia, citing US support for the Gulf kingdom’s self-defense. The missiles “have been instrumental in intercepting the persistent UAS [drone] attacks that have put US forces at risk and threatened the more than 70,000 US citizens in the kingdom,” according to a State …