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VOA – Hundreds of Iranian Kurdish members of a Muslim sect seeking to attend the funeral of their leader in neighboring Iraq have forced their way through a crossing into Iraqi territory, exposing a weakness in Iranian and Iraqi border controls aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Video clips widely shared on social media showed the Iranian followers …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least 123 people were executed in different parts of Iran in the first six months of 2020. One of the executions recorded was carried out in public and another shot by a firing squad in front of a number of civilians in prison. Of the executions, only 36 were announced by local media and officials. …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was executed in Mashhad Central Prison for drinking alcohol yesterday. Once again, Iran Human Rights calls on the international community to pay more attention to the human rights abuses, and in particular, the execution of death sentences in Iran. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of IHR said: “with this execution, the Islamic Republic’s judicial system has …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to retribution in kind (death) on charges of premeditated murder, was executed in Shiraz Central Prison. According to Iran Human Rights, the identity of the man executed in Shiraz Central Prison today, has been established as Amirabbas Salehi, 36, from Marvdasht. An informed source has told IHR that “Amirabbas was sentenced to …

CHRI – Imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and other cellmates have displayed symptoms of the coronavirus during the past week in Zanjan Prison, 210 miles west of Tehran, but have not been tested. “For the past six days, Narges and several other prisoners have suffered numbness, pain in their bones and fatigue and now, since yesterday (July 6), they have lost …