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radiofarda – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has urged Iran to free two French nationals held in prison since last June, who he said were both unwell. Roland Marchal is a senior researcher at the Sciences Po university in Paris and Fariba Adelkhah, a Franco-Iranian dual national, is also an academic there. Authorities have dropped spying charges against Adelkhah …

radiofarda – A foreign-based Iranian human rights group has reported that twenty inmates in Iran’s Rajaee-Shahr prison near Tehran have been into solitary cells as a sign of their impending execution. Iran’s Human Rights Organization (IHRO) said Saturday that the inmates are on death row mainly for first-degree murder and asked world opinion and the international community not to be …

iran-hrm – According to the data collected from material published by the Iranian state-run press, human rights activists and their websites, or from private sources in touch with Iran Human rights Monitor,24 people were executed in Iran in January 2020. Nevertheless, the actual figures are definitely higher, as most executions in Iran are carried out secretly without anyone knowing except those who …

iran-hrm – The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tabas in eastern Iran said Saturday, February 1 that a tourist was lashed 80 times for drinking alcohol on a tour. Amir Zare Hosseini who was cited by the state-run Tasnim news agency said the whole “legal procedure” and sentence implementation was carried out in less than five hours. The Tabas prosecutor …

radiofarda – Japan has dispatched a warship to help safeguard the country’s oil supplies through the tense-but-vital waterways in the Middle East. The helicopter destroyer Takanami on February 2 left its port near Tokyo on an assignment to protect merchant ships and oil tankers passing through the Gulf of Oman, through which flows some 90 percent of Japan’s oil. The …