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Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Soraya Haghdoust, a 28 year-old civil activist and member of Human House NGO, was arrested by security forces in Marivan on Thursday. Another civil activist, Aram Fathi, was also arrested in Marivan that day. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, civil activist Soraya Haghdoust was arrested by security forces on June 17. She …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Death row prisoner Habib Rezaei who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Salmas Prison. His mother suffered a heart attack and passed away when his sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court seven months ago. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner was executed in Salmas Prison on …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – The prosecution has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man arrested on alcohol consumption charges for the fourth time. According to Iran newspaper, a representative from the prosecutor has requested the death penalty for a middle-aged man who was arrested for drinking alcohol earlier this year after a complaint from a neighbour. The man, …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s health officials said multiple variants of the COVID-19 virus are raging across four southern provinces up to 50% faster than two weeks ago. The rates have now placed much of the country’s impoverished southern and southeastern strip in the country’s “red” infection zone. Iran’s health minister has already warned that the “stubborn” nature of Indian and South African mutations identified in …

sputniknews – The US Department of Justice has seized Iranian domains before, claiming they were part of a “disinformation campaign,” and US-based social media corporations like Twitter and Google have persecuted Iranian news outlets for years, but the wholesale seizure of a major Iranian news agency’s website is new. Two of the websites, Al-Alam and PressTV, are owned by Islamic Republic …