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CHRI – In Iran, the Ministry of Guidance and Islamic Culture imposes a strict process of review and approval for all screenplays before films can be legally produced in the country. Films that are produced also face censorship, and directors are often ordered to remove certain scenes before the authorities allow them to screen the film. Prominent director Abdolreza Kahani …

CHRI – Thirty scholars and researchers at the University of Tehran have called for the release of detained reporter Marzieh Amiri in a letter addressing Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mansour Gholami. Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper and student at the university, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence Ministry since she was …

CHRI – A group of workers of the Hafteh Tappeh sugar mill company in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, published a list of 40 names of colleagues and supporters who’ve been detained in recent months in connection with protests for unpaid wages at the mill. “We know that the names of many dear individuals are not on this list,” said the unnamed …

Al-Monitor – “The prisoners were all ears while Janyar recounted them an anecdote from [Dostoevsky’s] ‘The Idiot.’ One inmate … however, looked as though he had been asleep for centuries. His eyes were open, but he was no longer seeing anything. What they had been all talking about had quietly and surreptitiously called on their inmate. It calls on everyone …

Radiofarda – Led by Tehran’s former mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s neo-cons hope to win a sizeable majority in the next round of the country’s parliamentary elections to be held in February 2020. In a video released on social media, Qalibaf, currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, has called on “revolutionary youths” to prepare for candidacy in the …