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Iran-HRM – Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – April 2019 Introduction The issues of Iran human rights violation in April ranged from arbitrary killings and arrests, torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners, issuance of cruel sentences to violation of the rights of minorities, to violence against prisoners and stepping up pressure on political prisoners and executions, most horrible of which …

Iran-HRM – The sister of Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi who was executed in September 2018, was summoned by the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj and interrogated on April 29, 2019. Parvaneh Hossein Panahi has been apparently summoned because she was trying to find out the place of burial of her brother. Agents of the Intelligence Department have threatened her …

Iran-HRM – Charity Worker Akram Nasirian was arrested by unidentified security agents in Tehran for unknown reasons, on April 29, 2019, according to the “Voice of Iranian Women” charity organization. Ms. Akram Nasirian, who prior to her arrest had worked in flood-impacted areas of the country, disappeared on Monday, April 29. Looking for her, her family was informed by Tehran’s …

RFL/RE – The United States has pledged to cut Iran’s oil exports to “zero,” denying Tehran a key source of revenue through tough sanctions and the threat of stiff penalties to potential buyers.But economists say that while the U.S. measures will hit Iranian oil sales, which account for 70 percent of the country’s revenues, they will not completely halt them.Iran …

VOA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday his country will suspend its compliance with prohibitions on stockpiles of enriched uranium and heavy water that were imposed as part of the 2015 international agreement on its nuclear program. With the withdrawal of the United States from the agreement and its imposition of economic sanctions against Iran, Rouhani said the remaining …