Al-Arabia – Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an …
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VOA – The wife of a U.S. student imprisoned in Iran on spy charges is reaching out to President Donald Trump to do more to get him out. “I implore Iran, the U.S., my own country, China, and other members of the international community to come together and find a way to secure the release of this innocent man,” Hua Qu …
Read More »Radiozamaneh – Demand-based protests of Iranian workers are no longer only about increasing wages, the betterment of job security or less exploitation but more focused on maintaining job opportunities, receiving past due wages, and calls for release of the arrested labor activists. This is mainly because an increase in unemployment and poverty has dramatically changed the status quo as far …
Read More »CHRI – The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) have called on Iranian authorities to release detained workers’ rights activists and journalists including Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan. Letters by the ITUC and AFL-CIO were sent to Iranian leaders one month after a group of Haft Tappeh sugar mill workers in the city of …
Read More »CHRI – Wildlife conservationists Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani have been detained in Iran without due process along with six other conservationists since January 2019. Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani, two of the eight wildlife conservationists detained in Iran since January 2018, began a hunger strike on August 3, 2019, a source with knowledge of their cases told the Center for Human Rights …
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CHRI – Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to 23.6 years in prison while Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter Yasaman Ariyani have each been sentenced to 16 years in prison for peacefully campaigning against Iran’s mandatory hijab law. All three women were charged with “encouraging people to corruption and prostitution,” “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state.” Keshavarz …
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