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Iran-HRM – Activist teacher Mohammad Habibi is deprived of going on prison leave despite having served one-third of his sentence. Mr. Habibi is presently detained in ward 2 of the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP). In 2018, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced him to 10.5 years in prison and 74 lashes. As a supplementary punishment, he is also banned from …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “premeditated murder during the course of an armed robbery” has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to the Iran Human Rights, this morning, Wednesday, October 21, a male prisoner was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. The prisoner, whose identity was established as 28-year-old Shahram Takhsha, was on …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Nasrin Sotoudeh was transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin from Evin Prison this morning under the pretext of being taken to a medical centre. This is while “according to (medical) experts she should have been taken to the hospital for immediate heart examinations and angiographic surgery.” According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), this morning, October …

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- The death sentence of Barzan Nasrollahzadeh, a Sunni prisoner who was under 18 years of age at the time of his arrest, has been overturned by the Supreme Court. According to Iran Human Rights, the death sentence of Barzan Nasrollahzadeh was overturned in the Supreme Court and his case has now been sent to a branch …

Al-Monitor – “We should make peace when the right time has come,” said Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani last week in a historical reference to Islam’s second Shiite leader Imam Hassan, who clinched a peace agreement with his enemies in the seventh century. Perhaps Rouhani did not anticipate the tremendous backlash from his opponents, who accused the moderate president of exploiting and distorting Imam Hassan’s story to justify …