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Iran-HRM – Rasoul Taleb Moghaddam, a labor activist and member of the Syndicate of the Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC) was flogged 74 times today before being taken to prison to begin serving his sentence. Rasoul Taleb Moghaddam was flogged 74 times after his presence at the Branch 1 of the Implementation of the Verdict Unit of Evin …

VOA – The wife of an Iranian-Swedish medical doctor detained in Iran in 2016 and later sentenced to death for alleged espionage says Iranian officials have ignored her ailing husband’s request for leave from a coronavirus-afflicted prison.   In a Friday phone interview with VOA Persian from Sweden, Vida Mehran Nia said Iran’s judiciary has offered no response to release requests …

RFL/RE – A senior Iranian lawmaker said on June 1 that 230 people were killed in anti-government protests in Iran in November, state news agency IRNA reported.It is the first time that an Iranian lawmaker has given a death toll in the unrest, which was sparked by an increase in the price of petrol. The four days of unrest was …

RFL/RE – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will visit Iran shortly to sign cooperation agreements in energy and other sectors after Iran sent five fuel tankers to the South American country.“I am obliged to go to personally thank the people,” Maduro said on June 1 in an address broadcast on state television. He did not provide a date for …

RFL/RE – Khuzestan has become Iran’s first province to officially ban women’s boxing. The move comes just over a year after Sadaf Khadem became the first Iranian woman to compete in an official boxing match. She now trains in France. (file photo) “Any activity in women’s boxing is prohibited in the province,” the head of Khuzestan’s boxing board, Hamid Zanganehmanesh, …