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COVID-19: Iran Allows All Mosques To Open Temporarily As Restrictions Ease; Russia Reports Nearly 11,000 New Cases

RFL/RE – The global death toll from the coronavirus is some 286,000 with more than 4.1 million infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness. Here’s a roundup of COVID-19 developments in RFE/RL’s broadcast regions. Iran All mosques in Iran will reopen temporarily on May 12 in another step …

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Political prisoners on hunger strike in northwest Iran prison

Iran-HRM – Two political prisoners, Ebrahim Khalil Sediq Hamedani and his son, Salar Sediq Hamedani, have started a hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia since Saturday, May 1, 2020. The hunger strike is in protest to the false promises made by the prison’s warden, Mehr-Ali Farhang. After the outbreak of the coronavirus two months ago, there have been …

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Political Prisoners’ Children Turn Homeless after Their House Confiscated

Iran-HRM – The regime’s Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order confiscated the home of political prisoners Fatemeh Mosanna and Hassan Sadeghi. The husband and wife have been in prison for the past four years. The Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order known as “Setad” is under the direct control of Khamenei and seized the assets of political prisoners, religious minorities, and other …

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Concerns About Hedayat Abdollahpour After Transfer to Unknown Location

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Hedayat Abdollahpour, a political prisoner sentenced to death, was transferred from Urmia Central Prison to an unknown location on, May 9, 2020. Osman Mozayan and Maziar Tataei, lawyers representing the political prisoner on death row, told IHR: “We referred Hedayat Abdollahpour’s case to the Western Azerbaijan (Urmia) branch of the Amnesty and Pardon Commission but …

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IRAN: UNIVERSITY STUDENT AT RISK OF TORTURE: ALI YOUNESI

Amnesty – Iranian university student Ali Younesi has been arbitrarily detained since 10 April 2020. His family believes he is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison, where he has been denied access to a lawyer and permitted only two brief telephone calls to his family. The Iranian authorities have not provided clear reasons for his arrest. He is a prisoner …

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