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RFL/RE – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Iran to cease jailing members of the press for their work after a 72-year-old journalist began a three-year prison sentence over his coverage of protests last year. “Jailing an elderly journalist in the middle of a raging pandemic shows how much contempt the Iranian judiciary has for the press,” CPJ’s …

RFL/RE – The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up its pressure on Iran by imposing sanctions on the country’s ambassador to Yemen’s Huthi rebels. The fresh sanctions, announced on December 8, target envoy Hassan Irlu as well as the Qom-based Al-Mustafa International University for recruiting members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force as …

Amnesty – A group of UN human rights experts have written to the Iranian government warning that past and ongoing violations related to prison massacres in 1988 may amount to crimes against humanity and that they will call for an international investigation if these violations persist, a push for accountability welcomed by Amnesty international on the eve of International Human Rights Day. “The …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Daniel Divani-Azar, a death row prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of Sadegh Barmaki, has been executed at Miandoab Prison. Another defendant in the case who was under the age of 18 at the time of his arrest, was killed after being beaten by prison officials and the third defendant was executed two …

Al-Monitor – As much of the world is slowly moving close to an end to COVID-19 with either producing or ordering doses of coronavirus vaccines, Iranians seem to have a longer way ahead before making it to the other side of the bridge.   From the very onset of the pandemic back in late February, officials in Tehran have denounced US …