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Radiofarda – Iran says it may take legal action to free billions of dollars of its oil money frozen in South Korea’s banks due to U.S. sanctions. In one of the latest developments in the saga to get some of its frozen assets released, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati to take “firm measures” including …

Iran-HRM – More than 100 inmates have been executed in Iran from January to mid-June 2020. At least 30 of these executions have been announced by official and semi-official press and media, and the other 79 were carried out in secret. At least two women were hanged in January 2020.  One of them was identified as Maliheh Haj Hassani, hanged in …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Zahra Safaei was threatened with assault and murder in Qarchak Prison by ordinary criminals hired by the Ministry of Intelligence. Three prisoners incited by Ministry of Intelligence agents threatened Zahra Safaei to death on Sunday, June 13.Based on Article 69 of the State Prisons Organization’s regulations, authorities are required to divide prisoners Article 69 of the …

Iran-HRM – Maryam Akbari Monfared was verbally summoned to the Evin Courthouse on Wednesday, June 10, to be arraigned with charges levelled in a new case recently filed against her. Ms. Akbari Monfared refused to appear in the courthouse as a gesture of protest to her lack of access to legal counsel and the authorities’ failure to send her a …

RFL/RE – Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, a legendary actor in Iranian film, theater, and television, has died at the age of 90 in Tehran. Keshavarz was hospitalized in early June with a kidney problem, after which he was placed in the intensive care unit due to a lung infection. The prominent actor had been ill since 1990 and hospitalized several times. …