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CHRI – The grandmother of Pouya Bakhtiari, a 27-year-old man who was gunned down at a street protest on November 16, 2019, said the family’s home in Karaj, west of Tehran, was surrounded by security forces to prevent them from visiting his grave on December 26, 2019, after calling for the date to be a national day of mourning. His grandmother, …

PayvandNews – Over the past six days, polluted air in the country sent 13,931 people to hospitals and medical centers due to heart and respiratory problems, Mojtaba Khaledi, Emergency Medical Services Organization spokesman has said. View of Tehran under heavy smog Due to air pollution and increased particulate matters in provinces of Isfahan, Alborz, Tehran, Markazi, Qazvin, Qom, East Azarbaijan, …

Radiofarda – France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Friday to demand the release of two French citizens being held in Iranian jails after one of them, Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, began a hunger strike. “As the president and foreign minister have underlined on multiple occasions, their imprisonment is intolerable,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a daily online press briefing. Iran …

Radiofarda – Australian scholar Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert who had been on hunger strike at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison since December 24 announced two days later she would resume her hunger strike if not taken out of solitary confinement by New Year’s Eve. The Australian scholar’s message was relayed by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff, a dual British-Iranian citizen also in prison in Iran, …

Radiofarda – In a joint statement 135 Iranian documentary film makers have vowed to commemorate the victims of the recent deadly protests in Iran by documenting their lives and the protests. Sympathizing with the families of mid-November anti-regime demonstrations, the directors have insisted that they would not close their eyes to the realities of Iran’s current situation and will document …