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Iran-HRM – A family member of Ali Younesi, an Iranian student detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison, said that his brother has contracted coronavirus while in solitary confinement. In his tweet on Thursday Reza Younesi ​said in a phone call from prison after more than two and a half weeks his brother told the family that he had been seriously ill with …

Iran-HRM – The International Labor Organization has declared June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labour to raise awareness and work to prevent child labor. The COVID-19 pandemic and the regime’s mismanagement of handling the crisis, have had a huge impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. The crisis has pushed a significant number of children into child labour in Iran. Already, there are …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities must urgently clarify the fate and whereabouts of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a Kurdish prisoner, after local authorities told his family that he had recently been secretly executed, Amnesty International said today. Hedayat Abdollahpour was sentenced to death in 2017 after a grossly unfair trial. On 9 May 2020, he was transferred from the central prison in Urumieh, in West …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s president said the country is looking to reopen under certain health guidelines.  Iranians wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they drive with the metro, in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2020.  Photo by WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Ali Khara via REUTERS. President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran will seek to reopen …

PayvandNews – Iran’s minister of transportation says an initial deal has been reached with the neighboring Iraq to build a long highway that would ease traffic across the border and would help boost trade between the two neighboring countries. Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that the 354-kilometer highway would connect the city of Mehran on the western Iranian border to …