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Iranwire – Families of the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 disaster have called on the Canadian government to take a more robust stance against the perpetrators in Iran. Last week the Islamic Republic released its final technical report on the January 8, 2020 downing of PS752 by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) which killed all 176 people on board. The 285-page …

Iran-HRM – The warden of Urmia Central Prison has refused to authorize hospital transfer for political prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani who has diabetes and urgently needs to be sent to a hospital outside prison. The 62-year-old political prisoner suffers from diabetes and its complications. The necessary insulin is not available to him in prison. His toes are blackened and …

Iran-HRM -A man awaiting finger amputation in a northwestern Iran prison has been sentenced to additional four years in prison and 80 lashes on the charge of “insulting the warden of Urmia Central Prison” and “disrupting prison order”. The Urmia Criminal Court has sentenced Hadi Rostami to prison and lashes without holding a court hearing. According to the verdict issued …

Iran-HRM – Prison authorities have refused to authorize temporary leave for a Kurdish political prisoner to attend his daughter’s funeral. The kurdish political prisoner Arash Nasri held in Rajai Shahr Prison of Karaj, has recently lost his 15-year-old daughter and requested a few hours furlough to attend her funeral. After several days of follow-up by him and his family, the …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Saeed Eghbali is being held in solitary confinement with two death-row prisoners after he was banished from Evin Prison to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prison officials have told Saeed Eghbali that he will be transferred to a ward holding common criminals and that they have no responsibility to protect his life and health. Saeed Eghbali was abruptly …