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Iran-HRM – The State Security Force agents have been parading young people in the streets of Iran over the past weeks, humiliating and torturing them psychologically in the open. This inhuman treatment aimed at terrorizing the public violates the international law and all principles of human rights. People have posted videos of such inhuman treatment of young people in the …

Iran-HRM – A group of relatives of political prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre and the 1990s in Iran protested concealing the role of the regime’s leaders in the executions, especially that of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was Prime Minister at the time. The letter comes after supporters of Mousavi accused Amnesty International of “distorting” the facts. Responding to the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – 10th October 2020 marks the eighteenth year that this day was set as the World Day Against the Death Penalty. Each year, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty focuses on a particular issue surrounding the death penalty, the individuals executed and those awaiting execution. The issue being highlighted this year is the right to …

Al-Monitor – Danish media reported that imams are forcing Iranian women in Denmark to accept divorce terms, and Denmark’s foreign minister thinks Iran may be involved. Denmark has summoned Iran’s ambassador following local media reports that the Iranian Embassy is involved in controversial divorces in the European country. The Danish government summoned the Iranian ambassador on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. The controversy arose …

(AP) — Iranian state TV said the country has hit its highest number of daily deaths from the coronavirus, with 239 new fatalities reported on Wednesday. The report quoted the spokesperson of the country’s health ministry, Sima Sadat Lari, as saying that the 239 died since Tuesday. Iran has in the past had 235 daily deaths. The latest death toll …