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Al-Arabia – Iran’s judiciary has extended British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s temporary release from jail by another month, her lawyer told state news agency IRNA on Tuesday. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section.In mid-March, Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was temporarily released from Tehran’s Evin prison for two weeks along with thousands of other prisoners amid the coronavirus outbreak.“Zaghari’s furlough was …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Soheil Arabi was returned to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary from the IRGC’s detention center. In response to the threats made by his interrogators to silence him, Soheil Arabi said: “This is the era of communications. It is not the 1980s when you executed thousands of people and nobody found out. You silence your opponents by suppression …

Iran-HRM – Kurdish political prisoner Esmail Moridi has sewn his lips closed in protest being denied temporary prison leave amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Esmail Moridi has on hunger strike and stitched his mouth closed since April 12, after his request for temporary release was rejected by the authorities despite the Covid-19 pandemic.He has been imrisoned since five years ago serving …

RFL/RE – Suspected Israeli warplanes targeted Iranian and Iran-backed fighters in eastern Syria near the historic town of Palmyra. Syrian state media SANA said late on April 20 that air defenses “confronted an Israeli missile aggression” and “shot down a number of the hostile missiles before reaching their targets.” The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Juvenile offender Shayan Saeedpour was executed this morning at the prison of Saqqez city, Kurdistan province.  IHR strongly condemns Shayan Saeedpour’s execution and calls for a strong international reaction. IHR director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said: “Execution of juvenile offenders is an international crime and must be condemned by the international community, especially the European governments. The …