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Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Civil activist and Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi, has been under arrest since May 23 without access to a lawyer. Zahra Mohammadi, 27, a member of Nojin Socio-Cultural Association, was arrested by security forces in her home in Sanandaj city on May 23, 2019. Almost two months after her arrest, Zahra is still detained in Sanandaj …

CHRI – Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have been told they must serve an additional 3.7 years in prison for the charges of “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state,” Daemi’s mother informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 15, 2019. Masoumeh Nemati said the two women are being punished for writing open letters …

CHRI – The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been denying Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe all contact with the outside world since she was transferred to the psychiatric ward of a hospital in Tehran on July 15, 2019. In an interview with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July 19, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s London-based husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said it was …

CHRI – After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s director, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “His cellmates have not heard from him since he was moved to …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Yet, while Iran shows no sign of scaling down its aggressive stance towards the US and its allies in the region, Europe continues to cling to the wreckage of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to give the nuclear deal its proper name, in the misguided belief that the deal remains the best means of preventing Iran …