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RFL/RE – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a complaint with Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor against an Iranian judge whom the Paris-based media freedom watchdog accuses of being responsible for the “arrest and torture” of at least 20 journalists in 2013. In a Twitter post on June 11, RSF’s Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said that Gholamreza Mansouri was currently in Germany.“The prosecutor must …

RFL/RE – As a corpse sticks out from the back of a blazing car on a road in central Iran, a badly burned young Afghan who escaped the flames stumbles along the road.“Give me some water, I’m burning!” the migrant screams in pain.The harrowing minute-long video, which went viral on social media, shows a gruesome scene in which Iranian police are …

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 …