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Amnesty – The sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in a new case against her is an outrageous injustice, said Amnesty International today.  The sentence, reported on her husband Reza Khandan’s Facebook page on 11 March, brings her total sentence after two grossly unfair trials …

Al-Monitor – Shortly after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s call on officials to uproot corruption, the Iranian judiciary announced perhaps the largest embezzlement case in the country’s history involving some 6.6 billion euros ($7.4 billion). Similar to other major embezzlement scandals in recent years — such as the one centered on businessman Babak Zanjani, who is now awaiting execution — the current case relates …

Al-Monitor – Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and will receive 148 lashes, according to her husband, Reza Khandan. Khandan posted on Facebook that Sotoudeh was sentenced in two separate cases — the first one resulting in a five-year prison sentence and the second in a 33-year sentence. There had been conflicting reports about her case. Iranian …

Al-Monitor – “Which of these faces is the real me as an Iranian woman?” That is the question the Berlin-based artist Mona Hakimi-Schueler posed more than a decade ago with a series of self-portraits depicting her in 20 different outfits ranging from a sundress to a chador. The paintings were inspired by debates in Germany over whether female teachers should be allowed to wear headscarves in classrooms. “I used to …

PayvandNews – Iran finished in second place at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) men’s Sabre World Cup in Padua, Italy on Sunday.View image on Twitter FIE✔@FIE_fencing Korea won Iran in the final of men’s team sabre world cup in Padua went to Italy || #worldcup #fencing134:48 PM – Mar 10, 2019See FIE’s other TweetsTwitter Ads info and privacy Team Melli, …