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Iran-HRM – About 1,500 protesters were killed during less than two weeks of unrest that started on November 15, including about 400 women and 17 teenagers, Reuters reported on Monday, December 23, 2019.Two of the Iranian officials who provided he figures to Reuters, said they were based on information gathered from security forces, morgues, hospitals and coroner’s offices.Reuters said Khamenei’s …

VOA – Thousands of Iraqis protested Monday in Baghdad and other parts of the country after politicians missed an overnight deadline for naming a new prime minister. Anti-government rallies have rocked the capital and the Shiite-majority south since October with people protesting against corruption, poor services and a lack of jobs. FILE – Iraq’s President Barham Salih speaks to the …

Radiofarda – Prosecutors in Iran have rejected a motion to conditionally release two well-known female prisoners, their defense attorney told the government’s official news website IRNA on Sunday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual British-Iranian citizen detained on ambiguous national security charges since 2016, and renowned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi are eligible for conditional release, the attorney Mahmoud Behzadi-Rad reiterated. Mohammadi …

Radiofarda – Reports from Tehran say the parents of Pouya Bakhtiari, a young man killed by Iranian security forces during the protests in November have been summoned to the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran on Saturday, December 21. They were reportedly told not to hold a vigil for their son in public places and limit the commemoration session to a small …

Radiofarda – Twenty one adolescents and children working as porters, carrying goods on their backs across the Iran-Iraq border have died in 2019 from soldiers’ bullets or cold weather, a human rights group has said. The porters taking the dangers journey to eke out a living are called “kolbar” in local Kurdish language. Seven of these young kolbars were shot …