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Dead Iran Judge Spoke With Family And Was Fine Hours Before Body Found

Radiofarda – A former Iranian judge who fled to Romania and was found dead in Bucharest on June 19 spoke with his family and sounded fine hours before his body was found in a hotel, his attorney says. Etemaad Online, a local news website quoted the lawyer, Amir Hossein Najafpur Sani in Tehran as saying that he was shocked when he found …

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U.S. Iran Envoy Calls IAEA Resolution ‘Significant,’ Says Russia, China Votes Against Were ‘Irresponsible’

RFL/RE – The U.S. special envoy for Iran has welcomed a resolution passed on June 19 by the board of governors of the United Nations’ atomic agency that urges Iran to provide access to two sites where nuclear activity may have occurred in the past.Brian Hook said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board’s resolution “is significant and it raises …

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Iran Tortures Prisoners to Death, Intimidates and Blackmails Families

Iran-HRM – A 34-year-old prisoner in Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan province was tortured to death in the city’s prison, a human rights group said.According to the report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, prison agents forced his father to write off the cause of death as COVID-19 even though he had tested negative for the virus upon entering the …

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Iran Silent on Kurdish Activist’s Execution

VOA – Iran has withheld confirmation of its apparent recent execution of a Kurdish activist, in the latest example of its long-running practice of secretly executing ethnic minority dissidents. Kurdish activist Hedayat Abdollahpour’s brother Farhad told VOA Persian that their father received a call on June 10 from an official who asserted that Hedayat was executed on or around May …

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Police Accounts Differ on Death of Iran Judge in Romania

VOA – Fugitive former Iranian judge Gholamreza Mansouri was found dead in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, in suspicious circumstances. Police initially told RFE/RL’s correspondent in Bucharest that the man fell from the sixth-floor window of the hotel onto the sidewalk, but later in the evening authorities said Mansouri’s body was found inside the hotel near the lobby. The correspondent said the hotel is …

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