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Iran Jails Critical Journalist For ‘Spreading Propaganda’

RFL/RE – Iranian journalist Nejat Bahrami has started serving a one-year prison sentence this week, in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called another step by authorities to “muzzle” the press. Bahrami arrived at Tehran’s Evin Prison on May 18 to begin serving his sentence, according to the Persian service of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). It said Bahrami, a …

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U.K.-Iranian Woman’s Temporary Prison Release Extended

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have again extended the temporary release of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her family and lawyer say. In mid-March, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was temporarily released from Tehran’s Evin prison, where she was serving of a five-year sentence for “plotting to topple the Iranian government,” a charge she has denied. The furlough has been extended until May 27, …

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Dissident’s Wife Denounces Iran for Not Freeing Sick Husband

VOA – The wife of an Iranian dissident recently jailed for 16 years has denounced Iran’s Islamist rulers for rejecting her appeals to furlough her sick husband as the coronavirus plagues the nation’s prisons. In a Tuesday phone interview with VOA Persian from her home in Mashhad, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said she had written repeatedly to the northeastern city’s Revolutionary Court …

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US Sanctions Iranian Minister, Top Police Officials for Violent Crackdown

VOA – The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Iran’s interior minister, senior police officials and a military commander for human rights abuses, including killing peaceful protesters. “The Iranian regime violently suppresses dissent of the Iranian people, including peaceful protests, through physical and psychological abuse,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday. “The United States will continue to hold accountable …

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Iran’s Mullahs Advancing Anti-Israel Agenda Despite Coronavirus

gatestoneinstitute.org – Recently, Iran’s parliament, the Islamic Consultative Assembly, unanimously approved an “urgent bill” directed against Israel. We are therefore to assume, it would seem, that passing a bill against the State of Israel was more “urgent” for the Iranian regime than concentrating on protecting the lives of the Iranian population during this public health crisis. Although the traditional anti-Israel …

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