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Iranian Activist ‘Mistaken for Drug Addict’ Beaten Up by Court Staff

Iranwire – Iranian citizen Mohammad Abolhassani, who faces charges related to his peaceful political activism, was recently beaten by security agents after appealing to Branch 36 of the Court of Appeal. The agents mistook Abolhassani for being detained on drugs charges. Abolhassani had been previously detained on other charges and had been released on bail. Abolhassani, a civil rights activist, was …

Iranwire – Two Iranian athletes will face off in the taekwondo opening rounds at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics: Nahid Kiani from Iran’s national team, and Kimia Alizadeh from the independent Olympic Refugee Team. Iran’s mainstream media has fixated on the competition – calling it “unexpected” and “attractive,” but also “sensitive” – but Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard …

Iranwire – A baker dumps his spoiled dough in front of Ilam Electricity Office. A man asks in terror about the fate of his hospitalized father in Tabriz. A woman tears off her state-sanctioned hijab at a municipal office and declares: “No-one is here. There’s just one angry woman here today.” These and countless other videos circulating online in the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A 21-year-old death row prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on Monday. According to the official Khorasan newspaper, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on July 5. Sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, he has only been identified as 21-year-old Mehdi.G. Mehdi is reported to have killed one of his …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner named Faizollah Ahmadzadeh who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges has been executed in Qom Central Prison. At least 43 prisoners, including one woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Qom Central Prison in …

Al-Arabia – The US said on Thursday that it was “very close” to reaching an agreement on the b…

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iranintl – A former Iranian regime operative and ideologue, currently residing in Canada, has …

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Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary executed at least 63 prisoners over the past…

Iranwire – Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh began a hunger strike in Evin Prison on…

Iranwire – The president of Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Mahmoud Aghamiri, announc…

Iranwire – Hemin Ahmadi, a 45-year-old Kurdish kolbar, was shot and killed by Iranian border f…

Iranwire – Another student has been summoned by the Evin Prosecutor’s Office for protest…

VOA – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by t…

VOA – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that efforts underway to norma…

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Hamas sees Western countries such as Germany as a refuge in wh…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Yaghoub Amiri, a man on death row for drug-related charges, was e…

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ali Ashraf Khani, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Heyrati, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for…

iranintl – A Bushehr Teachers Union member, Reza Amanifar, was arrested as Iranian educators t…

iranintl – With an approaching run-off election to fill the final 32 parliamentary seats, and …

iranintl – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned about ‘normalization with Israel’ Wednesd…

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