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Iran Human Rights Monitor, Monthly report – August 2018

RFL/RE – An influential Iranian cleric says Europe is not helping to preserve a nuclear accord between Iran and world powers by demanding additional talks on issues like Tehran’s ballistic missiles, the country’s state media reported.

Amnesty – Responding to the arrest in Iran this morning of Reza Khandan, the husband of prominent jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Philip Luther, said:

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities have arbitrarily arrested three human rights lawyers and a women’s rights activist over the past four days, as part of an escalating crackdown to quash Iran’s civil society completely and leave human rights defenders in a suffocating climate of fear, Amnesty International said today.

 Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – After a violent raid on their prison sit-in last week, twelve imprisoned Dervishes who have gone on hunger strike following their transfer to solitary confinement have written a letter outlining their demands.