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Iran-HRM – Prison authorities continue to refuse to allow political prisoner Arash Sadeghi to receive proper medical treatment in a hospital outside the prison. Arash Sadeghi has lost the ability to move his right hand due to an infection on his shoulder that has been left untreated in Rajai Shahr Prison. He needs to receive treatment from a doctor outside the prison, …

PayvandNews – Authorities in the central prison of Karaj executed a prisoner for a murder he allegedly committed when he was 16. The authorities executed 21-year-old Saeed Mohammadi on Friday, October 25. As in previous cases, the execution has not been published in the state-run press and media. Iran is one of only four countries known to have executed child offenders since 2013.  …

VOA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of seeking means to launch missiles at Israel from Yemen, where Tehran supports Houthi rebels. Netanyahu made the remark during a visit by a U.S. delegation, including presidential adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin. Netanyahu is calling for tougher sanctions against Iran. Netanyahu spoke of Iran’s …

CHRI – Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian convert, four journalists and two activists were released from prisons in Iran on October 26, 2019, without any public announcement as to who ordered their long-sought release or why others who’d been imprisoned under similar circumstances were kept behind bars. Christian convert Ebrahim …

CHRI – Agents Install Surveillance Camera Outside Dr. Ali Asghar Gharavi’s Home Relatives and associates of moderate opposition activist Ali Asghar Gharavi, a prominent religious scholar, have come under increasing intimidation tactics by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “The last family member to be summoned and questioned was my daughter, Marjan; they …