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Iran-HRM – Another young protester arrested on February 28th during recent Iran uprising was tortured to death. His name was Ghobad Azami from Javanroud in Kermanshah Province, west of Iran. The regim’s intelligence service informed his family two days after his arrest, on March 2, that he had committed suicide in poison. Taleb Basativand, a student at Ilam University who …

Iran-HRM – Hamidreza Amini, a detained Telegram channel administrator who was charged with publishing lies, blasphemy and insulting the Islamic Republic’s authorities, went on a dry hungers strike for five days in protest to his transfer from Evin Prison to Fashafoyeh Prison.

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Alireza Varasteh, 26, who lives in Kashan was arrested on October 30, 2017 after intelligence agents raided his home. His personal belongings including his cellphone, flash disk, computer, laptop, satellite receiver and other items were confiscated by the agents.

Iran-HRM Disturbing video footage of what appears to be a public flogging in southern city of Bushehr, in which a young man lying flat face down on a sort of bedframe emerged on March 2. According to eyewitnesses, not only the young victim, but the commuters including children were brutalized and degraded by the experience. A bystander says: “For the …

Iran-HRM – Iran Human Rights Monitor – Monthly Report February 2018 introduction Systematic violation of human rights continued in February with 16 executions, crackdown on religious minorities, arresting of civil activists, incessant pressure on political prisoners and flogging. On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, two women political prisoners of Evin –Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee—were beaten up and banished to the …