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Iran-HRM – Prison guards at Urmia Central Prison attacked political prisoners’ wart on Tuesday September 15. The attack followed protests by prisoners over poor conditions in their ward and constant power and water outages. The prison guards attacked the inmates and ransacked their belongings under the pretext of a “routine inspection.” Six prison guards and 15 members of an anti-riot …

Iran-HRM – Two female political prisoners held at Qarchak Prison were attacked by boiling water on September 14, 2020. Two women hired by Qarchak Prison warden, Mehdi Mohammadi, attempted to pour hot boiled water on political prisoners Forough Taghipour and Parastoo Moini detained in Ward 6. The two criminals have been identified as Zeinab Ghanbarnejad (a.k.a. Zeinab Saratani) and Narges …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “Times change, everything has changed, except for the Palestinian mood that rejects anything and everything.” — Saudi writer Amal Abdel Aziz al-Hazany, Asharq al-Awsat, September 15, 2020. “Palestinian leaders are the main cause for the suffering of their people. They have achieved nothing for the Palestinians. They only care about power and achieving personal and partisan gains at the …

Al-Monitor – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will return to the United Nations in an effort to reinstate sanctions on Iran next week, despite concerns from UN Security Council members who believe Washington lacks the legal authority to do so.  “We will return to the United Nations to reimpose sanctions, so that the arms embargo will become permanent next week,” …

Shabtabnews – Today the IOPHR, in an open letter to Mr. Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, asked the International Olympic Committee to suspend Iran’s membership of the International Olympic Committee. The letter stated that “the recent execution of the Mr Navid Afkari is simply one more cruel step in a series of offenses against the Iranian athletes …