Thursday , 18 April 2024

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Students Protest End of Special Foreign Currency Exchange Rate

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- A group of students assembled on September 1, 2018, in front of Iran’s Central Bank on Mirdamad Street in Tehran to protest a decision that would deny access to foreign currencies at a special exchange rate.

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17 Days After Arrest, Detained Labor Activist’s Whereabouts Unknown

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – As far as his family knows, labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh could be seriously suffering, or worse: seventeen days after his arrest near Kermanshah in western Iran, authorities have yet to release word of his wellbeing or whereabouts.

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Dervish Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike Following Transfer to Solitary Confinement

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Twelve of the Dervish prisoners at Great Tehran Penitentiary who were violently disbanded and sent to solitary confinement on August 29th after staging a sit-in have started a hunger strike, while at least 20 of those attacked are reportedly in poor health.

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Activist in Tabriz Sentenced to Six Months in Prison

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Civil rights activist Amir Chamani has been sentenced to a six-month prison term on charges of “Propaganda against the regime” and “Cooperation with opposition groups.” Abbas Jamali, Chamani’s lawyer, confirmed news of the sentence to HRANA.

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Iran: Political Prisoner Sentenced to Flogging After Thirteen Years in Prison

Iran Human Rights – Mohammad Amin Abdollahi, who has served 13 years of his 18-year sentence at Birjand Central Prison, was sentenced to 74 lashes on the charge of “failure to return to the prison on the due date”.

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