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RFL/RE – Eighteen movies are set to compete for the top prize next week as the Berlin Film Festival celebrates its 70th anniversary. One of the most highly anticipated films for the Golden Bear award for the competition – which runs February 20-March 1 — is German-Afghan director Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, which transforms Alfred Doeblin’s 1929 German classic into …

Radiozmaneh – Iranian users take to twitter demanding the release of Student Activist Bahareh Hedayat, who is among a dozen journalists and activists targeted by security forces in the months of February as campaigns are ongoing for the parliamentary elections in Iran. Bahareh Hedayat, a prisoner of conscience in Iran, has been in and out of prison in the past …

Radiozmaneh – The 10th bimonthly Labor Rights Newsletter of Zamaneh Media has been published in both Persian and English. This issue covers labor news and workers’ issues in the approximate range of December 2019 and January 2020. According to the Statistical Center of Iran, point to point inflation rate rose 0.8 percent towards the 21 December 2019 as compared to …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A death-row prisoner hanged at Isfahan prison on February 13, 2020. According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Hassan Saraei (36) was hanged on Thursday, February 13, 2020, at Isfahan prison. “He was sentenced to death for murdering his friend four years ago,” a well-informed source told IHR.  In 2019, most of the executions in Iran …

gatestoneinstitute.org – For four decades, Ouyar Hassan has put up with an ochlocracy disguised as a theocracy. Wearing an Anatolian smile, he has seen Iran become the only country in the world, perhaps with the exception of Zimbabwe, poorer than it was 40 years ago. He has seen Iran top the list of infamy in the word for the number …