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Iranwire – A prominent Sunni cleric who serves as the Friday prayer leader of a mosque in Sanandaj was arrested on Monday following his appearance at the Special Clerical Court in Hamedan. Luqman Amini has since been transferred to an undisclosed location. The reasons for his latest arrest remain unclear. The Kurdish cleric was previously detained during the Woman, Life, …

Iranwire – An 18-year-old woman was killed by her father at her workplace in Islamshahr city of Tehran Province. Fatemeh Soltani had been working secretly at a women’s beauty salon, fearing her father’s reaction. Sources told IranWire that she had been living independently due to her father’s history of violence against her and her mother. The father found the address her workplace …

Iranwire – Two Baha’i women from Mashhad have been arrested and sent to Vakilabad Prison to serve eight-month sentences. Farideh Moradi and Golnoosh Nasiri were taken into custody on Sunday after being summoned to the Sentence Enforcement Unit of the Revolutionary Court in northeastern Mashhad. The women were initially sentenced in November 2023 by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO): April 22, 2025: Saeed Darikvand, a man on death row for murder, was executed in Khorramabad Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was hanged in Khorramabad Central Prison on 21 April 2025. His identity has been established as 29-year-old Saeed Darikvand from the Anarrou tribe in Mian Golal village in …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Iran state media reported the execution of Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnejad Haydaranlu today. According to official reports, Behzad Sarkhanlu, deputy prosecutor of Urmia, informed Hamid’s family that he had been transferred from Urmia Central Prison to Tehran and executed. His execution was carried out secretly. Condemning Hamid Hosseinnejad Heydaranlu’s execution in the strongest terms, …