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Iranwire – Fifteen agents from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence raided the home of a Baha’i man, Babak Zamani, in the northern city of Qaimshahr on the morning of February 12, IranWire reports.  The agents had a search warrant in the name of Zamani’s wife, Maryam Zabihi,  Witnesses reported that the agents behaved aggressively toward Zabihi, while her son, Bahamin …

Armita Pavir’s voice trembles with emotion as she speaks from behind the walls of Tabriz prison. This university student has been on hunger strike for the past 17 days – her third over the past five months.  In an audio file obtained by IranWire, Pavir expresses her fears that the prison authorities might put into execution their repeated threats to transfer …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a young Baluch man, Mohammad Narooie, to 12 years in prison for alleged “membership in anti-Islamic Republic groups.”  According to Haalvsh, an organization that monitors rights violations against Iran’s Baluch minority, the alleged actions leading to this charge remain undisclosed, raising concerns about the fairness of the trial. Narooie, a 22-year-old resident of Zahedan, …

VOA – An Iranian court has sentenced a man to death over the killing of renowned filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui and his wife months ago at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said Monday. Mehrjui, an 83-year-old director associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, was stabbed to death along with his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, in October at their home …

Iran-HRM – The life of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a 28-year-old supporter of the PMOI and a prisoner of the 2019 uprising, is in danger after being previously sentenced to death by the regime’s revolutionary court in Mashhad. He was tortured for several months and detained in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison. He was eventually handed down an execution sentence for …