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Iranwire – Iranians held at a Ministry of Intelligence detention center after the November 2019 protests were given psychoactive drugs and shut in a room resembling a grave in a bid to make them “confess”, an insider has claimed. Speaking at the Aban Tribunal in London on Wednesday with his face and voice obscured, Witness 185 was introduced as a relative of a high-ranking …

VOA —Iran is facing renewed scrutiny for its deadly suppression of nationwide protests in 2019, as a London tribunal organized by rights groups began hearing testimony Wednesday from relatives of those killed and others regarding alleged crimes committed in the crackdown. The event known as an international people’s tribunal opened in London’s Church House conference center. Its goal is to investigate alleged …

Iran-HRM – The 2nd Branch of the Revolutionary and Public Court of Rudsar summoned the activist teacher Aziz Ghasemzadeh on November 6, 2021. The security forces had arrested Aziz Ghasemzadeh on September 26, 2021, one day after the nationwide protest gatherings of teachers in 36 cities. They subsequently inspected his residence and confiscated some of his personal belongings. The state security forces arrested …

Iran-HRM – Arbitrary shooting of Farhad Zandi by Iran security forces The State Security Forces shot at a car driving on Sanandaj-Dehgolan Road, killing Farhad Zandi, a Kurdish citizen, on November 7, 2021. The security forces were from the SSF Counter-smuggling department. They shot at the car without confirming if it contained smuggled goods. Despite Farhad’s car being clean in …

CHRI — Two years after Iran’s security forces violently crushed mass protests that erupted across the country, leaving hundreds of civilians killed, two officials who oversaw that repression and have committed egregious rights violations for decades—President Ebrahim Raisi and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i—have risen to top positions of power in Iran. “Two years ago, Iranian men and women of all ages and classes risked …