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Iranwire – A Kurdish political prisoner jailed over his participation in Iran’s 2022 uprising attempted suicide in protest of his long-term prison sentence, according to a group that monitors rights violations in the country’s Kurdish regions. The Norway-based group Hengaw quoted an informed source as saying on January 16 that Vahid Chavaran was hospitalized in critical condition in Ilam after …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced two Iranian women activists to six years in prison on charges related to their political activities, according to a U.S.-based human rights network. HRANA said on January 16 that the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran, also ordered Maryam Jalal Hosseini and Fatemeh (Mojgan) Tadrisi to spend two years in exile after their …

Iranwire – Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a police officer accused of killing a protester during the 2022 uprising.  Mehran Samak was fatally shot in the head in Bandar Anzali on the evening of November 29, 2022, amid protests that followed the match between the US and Iranian national football teams in the World Cup …

Iranwire – Iran’s politicians who once hailed the resumption of diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia last year as a “government success” are now more skeptical.  This shift in perspective comes in the wake of the forced removal of Qassem Soleimani’s statues from a stadium and the resolute stance of one of the most influential countries in the Islamic world toward establishing relations …

RFL/RE – Sweden’s Foreign Ministry says a Swedish national was detained in Iran, the third of its citizens to be held in custody in the Middle Eastern country. The ministry said on January 15 that the person in custody is in his 20s and has been held since “the early days of January.” It gave no further details. Tehran has …