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Iranwire – She is two months pregnant, and terrified that someone might notice. Azam asked close friends and acquaintances to find someone to help her quietly abort her baby and “preserve her reputation”. She has gone without sleep and food to try to trigger a miscarriage. Azam has been engaged to the son of one of her mother’s relatives for …

Iranwire – After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, thousands of Arab refugees fleeing the ensuing war found refuge in Latin America, beginning a new chapter in their lives. This wave of migration has led today to a community of more than 10 million Lebanese now living on the continent. Back then, open immigration policy allowed many Lebanese arrivals to …

Iran-HRM – A prisoner who has been sentenced to have his fingers amputated, was flogged Sunday at Urmia Central Prison. Hadi Rostami, the four fingers of whose right hand are due to be amputated, was flogged 60 times in Branch 8 of the Enforcement Unit of the Public and Revolutionary Court on Urmia, northwest Iran. In a new case filed …

Iran-HRM – Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firoozi has gone on hunger strike since Feb. 13, demanding a ‘complete acquittal’ of what he calls the ‘false allegations’ made by the Ministry of Intelligence against him. He had previously announced that he would go on a hunger strike to protest continued confiscation of his mobile phone and laptop by the Ministry of …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Branch 54 of the Tehran Court of Appeals has upheld a six-year prison sentence for Soha Mortezaei, a doctoral candidate banned from education and former Secretary of the Central Student Council of the University of Tehran, who was arrested as part of the nationwide November 2019 protests. Soha Mortezaei was sentenced to six years in prison …