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rferl.org – The French president’s office has described talks on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in the coastal town of Biarritz between French leaders and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as “positive” and said the discussions, which also included Germany and Britain, would continue. Zarif made a surprise visit to Biarritz for several hours on …

rferl.org – An Iranian court has sentenced writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban to 23 years and nine months in prison after convicting him of charges including cooperation with the United States. His lawyer, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, told RFE/RL on August 24 that Marzban was convicted of cooperating with a hostile state, spreading propaganda against the system, and insulting sanctities and …

iranhr.net – While the world’s attention is drawn to the events in the Persian Gulf, civil activists face a new wave of repression, arrest and long-term prison verdicts in Iran. Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the international community to react to the recent vast violation of human rights in Iran. “It seems the Islamic Republic are taking disadvantage of the …

iranhr.net – A prisoner was hanged for murder charges at a prison in the Iranian northern city of Sari Wednesday. According to HRANA, on the morning of Wednesday, August 21, a man was hanged at a prison in the Iranian northern city of Sari, Mazandaran province. The man is identified as Abolhassan Ghorbani, 38. Abolhassan killed a man during a …

iran-hrm – Officials in Iran arrested 52 men and women at a mixed-gender “night party” in the northern city of Sari, acording to the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated to the regime’s IRGC. Fars reported Saturday, August 24, that 29 of the detainees were men while the remaining 23 were women. The news agency quoted a “source” as saying that …