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Radiofarda – Hamid Hodavand, the Deputy Commander of Tehran’s Law Enforcement, said that in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (beginning March 20, 2020), the number of union-related assemblies in Tehran dropped by 27 percent, compared with the same period in 2019. The state-run Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) quoted Hodavand on Friday, September 4, as …

There has been a recent outcry for justice emanating from the members of the largest Sufi order in Iran (The Gonabadi Sufi order) with regards to the unsolved and unexpected death of their spiritual leader Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh. On 24th of December 2019, Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh passed away in Mehr Hospital Tehran following almost 2 years in house …

Radiofarda – An explosion late on September 4 has injured more than 200 people in western Iran, Iranian news agencies reported on September 5.No fatalities were reported in the incident, which happened in the rural Ilam Province.Officials said the blast was caused by the explosion of a chlorine canister being transported by truck. Driver “carelessness” was suspected, the state IRNA …

Radiofarda – In his third report to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman has said that he is alarmed and shocked by the violence used against protesters in Iran during the November 209 civil unrest. “The Special Rapporteur expresses his shock at the unprecedented use of excessive and lethal force by State security forces during …

Radiofarda – Prominent Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on a hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison for more than three weeks to protest the risk that political prisoners in Iran face amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sotoudeh, who launched her hunger strike on August 11, said she will refuse to eat to secure the release of political prisoners …