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Iran-HRM – Saber Rezaii, a wounded protester arrested during the nationwide protests in November 2019, has been detained for more than three months in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary without completing his medical treatment. Saber Rezaii was shot and wounded by security forces in the city of Quds outside Tehran on November 16. He was taken to hospital, but got arrested there. After …

RFL/RE – Iran has closed all schools and adopted a series of other new measures as it battles the worst outbreak of coronavirus outside of China.Health Minister Saeed Namaki told a news conference on March 5 that all schools and universities will remain closed until the end of the Iranian calendar year on March 20, and that checkpoints will be …

RFL/RE – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran keeps growing amid criticism of what is seen as a belated state response and concerns about the real scale of the outbreak in the country, which has left dozens dead, including a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Health Ministry said on March 4 that the …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – At least one death-row prisoner was hanged on Sunday, March 1, at Urmia prison, West Azerbaijan province. According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Amir Mohammadpour was hanged on Sunday, March 1, 2020, at Urmia Central Prison (also known as Darya prison). He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder charges.  HRANA, which first published the …

Al-Monitor – Iran has dragged its feet on providing access to three sites suspected of past possible involvement in Iran’s nuclear program, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new report today. If not resolved, the development could eventually lead to Iran’s nuclear file being referred back to the UN Security Council, adding new …