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Iranwire – They wait for their loved ones to arrive. They are looking forward to embracing them soon. They don’t know that their loved ones, passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752, will never come home. It has been a year since Flight PS752, with 167 people onboard, was targeted by Revolutionary Guards, who shot the plane down with two missiles. Families …

Iranwire – When I lived in Iran, I had various experiences dealing with the police and authorities. I remember the day my friends and I were arrested on a street in Rasht and taken to the police station. They were boys, and I wore feminine clothing. I was more scared because I was trans: my legal identity did not match …

VOA – U.S. tech giant Twitter took sharply different actions against the leaders of the U.S. and Iran on Friday, permanently banning President Donald Trump’s personal account while removing one tweet from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s apparent English account and suspending new posts on it. The greater severity of Twitter’s action against the @realdonaldtrump account, compared with the social media company’s …

Iran-HRM – Torture and ill-treatment of prisoners is a common practice in Iran prisons. Torture is one of the most inhuman methods of extracting confession and imposing pressure on dissidents. This method has been systematically used in prisons during the rule of the mullahs’ regime. Judiciary and Intelligence officials have always denied use of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in …

Iran-HRM – One of Iran’s longest-serving political prisoners Gholam Hossein Kalbi started the 21st year of his life imprisonment sentence in Sheiban Prison of Ahvaz. The authorities have not granted him any prison leave in the past 20 years, despite his serious medical issues that require treatment. Gholam Hossein Kalbi was arrested in the city Dezful in January 2001 for …