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Iran-HRM – Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi each were sentenced to three years and seven months in prison and a two-year ban on membership in political parties and associations. Civil rights activists Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi stood trial on June 18, 2019, at the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, headed by judge Iman Afshari. The court …

Iran-HRM – Deputy of the municipality organization has said that one fifth of the country’s population are now living in slums, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday, July 9. Saeed Reza Jandaghian said that there are about 11.4 million people living in slums, according to official figures, but the actual numbers are much higher, and today, 16 million …

VOA – A Russian bid to defy U.S. sanctions on Iran appears to have failed, with Russian energy experts saying Moscow has made no recent purchases of Iranian oil as part of a sputtering 2014 deal with Tehran. Russian state media have said that under the August 2014 memorandum, which was never published in full, Moscow agreed to buy Iranian …

Amnesty – Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions” from women’s rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country’s discriminatory forced veiling (hijab) laws, said Amnesty International.  The organization has identified a pattern of at least six such cases since April 2019. In one of them, …

CHRI —At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, including scant legal protection against physical or sexual violence, widespread child marriage and labor, and execution for crimes committed while juveniles. While there is a …