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A Daily Overview of Human Rights Violations in Iran for January 16, 2019

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on January 16th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged for murder charges in Northern Iranian province of Mazandaran on Wednesday.

Iran Executions: Man Hanged in Public, Children Watched (+18)

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner was hanged in Public at a square in Falavarjan City, Isfahan Province, in Iran. He was sentenced to death for murder and rape charges.

How US sanctions intensify rent-seeking in Iran’s pharma sector

Al-Monitor – The recent resignation of Iran’s minister of health, Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, led to many speculations. Officially, insufficient allocations in the next Iranian year (beginning March 21) was cited as the reason, but commentators also referred to factional infighting within the Hassan Rouhani administration as well as shifting interests as a result of renewed sanctions. One hint emerged when a video …

Iranian TV says American-born anchor detained in US

Al-Monitor – An American-born Iranian journalist working for Iran’s state-funded English-language news network Press TV is said to be in custody after landing in the United States to visit an ailing brother.

Al-Arabia – Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an I…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have handed prison sentences to prominent women journalists Sab…

Iranwire – Located 12 kilometers from the Ahvaz road to Masjed Soleyman city, next to to Shiba…

Iranwire – Twelve Iranian women’s rights activists from the northern province of Gilan a…

iranintl – The fundamental policy of the Islamic Republic has traditionally been to avoid dire…

RFL/RE – The sister of Nika Shakarmi, a victim of the Women, Life, Freedom movement protests, …

VOA – Israel carried out a predawn aerial strike inside Iran on Friday, local time, U.S. media…

iranhr – This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read …

Iran Human Rights – April 18, 2024: Afshin Bagh Shirin, a man on death row for drug-related ch…

Al-Arabia – A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hinted on Th…

iranintl – The United States could get into war with Iran if Tehran launches a major attack on…

iranintl – The finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7) condemned Iran’s “unprecedented a…

iranintl – After a meeting with the British and German foreign ministers, Israeli Prime Minist…

iranintl – Activist and Islamic scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi, imprisoned for her opposition to th…

iranintl – Weeks after Iran International TV host Pouria Zeraati was stabbed in London, Report…

Iranwire – While the Islamic Republic transforms the streets into violent battlegrounds for wo…

Iranwire – Border forces of the Islamic Republic have shot dead a young kolbar in the western …

Iranwire – Following heavy rains and flooding on Sunday evening in southeastern Sistan and Bal…

Iranwire – In a historic departure from protocol, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…

Iranwire – Last week, a historic ruling by the Federal Criminal Court of Argentina confirmed t…

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