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Expert Witness: Hamid Nouri’s Trial Unmasks a Decade of Brutality

Iranwire – At the opening of the criminal trial of Hamid Nouri in Sweden last week, the names of several Iranian journalists who were killed in Iran’s 1988 prison massacre were read out to the court. Prosecutors based this on a document provided to Stockholm District Court by global organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). On the second day of the trial, Reza Moeini, the …

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Journalist Kianoosh Sanjari: Instead of Being Welcomed I Was Imprisoned and Tortured

Iranwire – Iran’s new Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei has urged Iranians currently living abroad to come back home, even suggesting that they will return to a warm welcome if they do. This echoed comments made by Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s new president, during his own time as chief justice. Raisi had spoken of “laying the groundwork” for the repatriation of Iranians. Try telling that to Kianoosh …

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Iran’s Interior Ministry: Afghan Refugees Will be Turned Back at the Border

Iranwire – The Iranian provinces of South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan and Razavi Khorasan have been ordered by Iranian officials to turn back fleeing Afghans on the border. The move was announced Hossein Ghasemi, the Interior Ministry’s Director General of Border Affairs. He told the Iranian judiciary’s official news agency Mizan it was a health measure: “Because of the coronavirus pandemic, border crossings between …

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Reporters Without Borders Reprimands Iran Spokesman for ‘Threatening’ Tweet on Afghan Journalist

Iranwire – “Journalism is not a crime. But crimes against the people of Iran and Afghanistan are.” So wrote the global organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) in a public rebuke of Kianoush Jahanpour, the brash spokesman of Iran’s Drug and Food Administration. The day before, Jahanpour had posted a cryptic tweet interpreted by many as a threat toward an Afghan journalist. On …

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Hezbollah Says Iranian Fuel Tanker to Sail to Lebanon Soon

VOA – The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said Thursday that an Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon “within hours,” warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it.  The delivery organized by Lebanon-based Hezbollah, would be an apparent violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran after former U.S. President Donald Trump pulled his country out …

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