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Iran-HRM – Iran’s Attorney-General has expressed regret that a number of “divine punishments” are set aside to save Iran from being condemned by international bodies.

Iran-HRM – Ministry of Health raised alarm bells regarding prevalence of malnutrition in Iran’s southern port city of Chabahar.

Iran-HRM – Human rights activists in Iran reported that an innocent man is among 12 prisoners executed January 9, at Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, Alborz province. All the 12 men had been sentenced to death on murder charges but human rights group say one of them one of them was more likely innocent.

HRW  – Iranian authorities carried out arbitrary mass arrests and serious due process violations during 2018 in response to protests across the country over deteriorating economic conditions, perceptions of corruption, and the lack of political and social freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019. Authorities tightened their grip on peaceful activism, detaining lawyers, human rights defenders, and women’s rights …

HRW – This week, two well-known political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin prison went on a three-day hunger strike to protest their inability to get urgent medical treatment.