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Radiozameh – My cell phone vibrated, but I was busy. Later, it vibrated again. It was a WhatsApp message from a young Iranian friend also living in Germany. She had been living and working as a scientist in North Rhine-Westphalia for four years. She was asking me if I had time to meet her in town later that afternoon. My …

VOA – Activists expressed fear Sunday that an Iranian prisoner jailed because of a 2018 protest by a religious sect and who died in custody, perished after authorities failed to care for his medical condition.  Behnam Mahjoubi, a member of the Sufi Gonabadi order and described as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was imprisoned after taking part in a demonstration the group held in February 2018. He began serving …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least two men including Houshang Mohammadi and Ali Angazi who were sentenced to qisas on murder charges, were executed in silence in Kermanshah Central Prison around a month ago. According to Iran Human Rights, at least two male prisoners were executed in Kermanshah Central Prison on 25 January 2021. The two prisoners identified as Houshang Mohammadi …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Branch 41 of the Supreme Court has upheld 13 years and three months in prison for political prisoner, Hamed Ghara-Oghlani, currently held at Urmia Central Prison. Speaking to IHR, his sister, Hanieh described the lack of due process in his case leading to the unfair trial that handed such a heavy sentence, and says her …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A 73 year-old retired pilot named only as Ehsan is facing the death penalty after being arrested for alcohol consumption for the fourth time. Iran Human Rights warns against expanding the use of the death penalty in Iran. IHR spokesperson, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “While the Islamic Penal Code sanctions the death penalty for repeated offences …