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RFL/RE – Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his film titled There Is No Evil, which he made despite being forbidden to do so by the government in Tehran. Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof Rasoulof was not present at the February 29 ceremony to receive the Golden Bear award for the film, which tells …

NPR – The U.S. and the Taliban have struck a deal that paves the way for eventual peace in Afghanistan. U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad and the head of the militant Islamist group, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, signed the potentially historic agreement Saturday in Doha, Qatar, where the two sides spent months hashing out its details. Under the terms of …

Reports of increasing coronavirus cases outside China are emerging and its global spread is now a reality that has to be dealt with worldwide. As the number of incident cases seems to be stabilizing in China, increasing reports have pointed out that new cases are increasing in other parts of the world; South Korea, Iran and Italy. Meanwhile, Iraj Harirchi, …

iranhumanrights – February 28, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) is extremely concerned by reports that prisoners in Iran lack access to medicines as well as hygiene and sanitary products amid a rapidly rising death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in the country. “We’re receiving disturbing reports that Iranian authorities are neglecting their domestic and international legal obligations to …

alarabiya – pro-Iranian regime activist who had previously said reports of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran were a ploy to lower voter turnout in the country’s general election, has died from the disease on Friday, according to a semi-official news agency report. Iran’s death toll from the outbreak has reached 43, a health official told state TV on Saturday, adding …