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RFL/RE – Iran has arrested at least nine more members of the Baha’i faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim community, and raided the homes of 20 Baha’i families in the western Iranian city of Hamadan, sources told RFERL’s Radio Farda, the latest in a series of acts by the government against the faith’s followers. Eyewitnesses described the searches conducted by the “armed” …

Iranwire – Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper incarcerated for supporting anti-establishment protests, continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries he sustained while in custody, his lawyer says. Salehi was violently arrested on November 30 amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody.  The artist, whose fingers and leg were broken under …

Iranwire – The movie Ameh Pasand (Popular) has been released in Iranian cinemas, with the white promotional posters featuring only the film’s title and the names of the actors. This is due to a prohibition by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on using images of two actresses featured in the movie, Baran Kosari and Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, who were prosecuted this year after …

Iranwire – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Iran Justice lawyers collective have jointly filed a complaint with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against the Iranian government, as part of efforts to put an end to the arbitrary detention of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi. The referral made on November 8 requests an “urgent action” …

VOA – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan on Thursday, while Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi were expected in Uzbekistan, amid renewed diplomatic interest in the region. Central Asia’s former Soviet republics have sought to diversify their partnerships as Moscow’s sway over the region, which it considers as under its sphere of influence, …