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Iranwire – An Iranian teenager took her own life earlier this week after being suspended from school for three days for not wearing a mandatory headscarf and for having her nails polished, IranWire has learned.  Zahra Hatami, an eighth-grade schoolgirl from the city of Shahriyar, near Tehran, threw herself from a building on October 2 because she feared her father’s …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities hanged 10 prisoners in Kerman and Shiraz prisons on October 1, activist groups say, amid a dramatic rise in executions by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary.  In a report published on October 3, Haalvsh news agency said that five prisoners convicted of drug-related crimes were executed in Kerman in the early hours of October 1.  Two of …

Iranwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Iranian authorities not to detain and harass journalists covering the brutal physical assault against a 16-year-old girl in a Tehran subway station. Sources told IranWire that Armita Geravand fell into a coma after being reportedly assaulted by hijab enforcement officers on October 1. The teenager was transported to …

Iranwire – The UK government has condemned Iran’s recent launch of a military satellite into space, amid concerns that Tehran’s space technology could be used to develop nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic announced on September 27 it had used the Qased space launch vehicle to put the Noor-3 imaging satellite in an orbit 450 kilometers above the Earth.  In a …

Iranwire – Younes Azadbar, a labor activist incarcerated in the northern city of Rasht, has described his recent hospitalization following an epileptic episode, saying that both his legs and one hand were tied to his bed with “handcuffs and chains.” “I’m Younes Azadbar, a political prisoner in Rasht’s Lakan prison who previously spent 11 years in the prisons of the …