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Iran-HRM – Taleb Basativand, a student at Ilam University who was arrested during the recent protests earlier this year and was transferred to an unknown location, was murdered under torture in Ilam prison. Taleb Basativand, was once arrested by law enforcement agents during the uprising of January. He was temporarily released on bail. Subsequently, on February 18, the regime intelligence …

Iran-HRM – Labor activist Othman Esmaeili was taken to Saqez Prison on February 27, 2018, to serve two months behind bars.

Iran-HRM – A Kurdish man was hanged on February 28, 2018, in Central Prison of Ilam, in western Iran.

Iran-HRM – Javad Khamis-Abadi, a Dervish Gonabadi community member, producer, scriptwriter and documentary producer, has disappeared after being arrested by Iran’s State Security forces on February 19, 2018, in Tehran.   The Sufi group Gonabadi, known locally as Gonabadi dervishes, held a protest in February 19, 2018, in northern Tehran demanding the release of an adherent of their faith. Reports …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, on Thursday praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his “resistance” after seven years of war.