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Iranwire – Molavi Abdulhamid, Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric, used his Friday sermon to urge the country’s authorities to investigate a recent incident that left a 16-year-old girl in a coma, and to bring those responsible to justice. Armita Geravand has been hospitalized since October 1, when she collapsed in a Tehran subway train due to what the authorities called …

Iranwire – The Court of Appeals in Khorasan Razavi province has upheld the 10-year and 9-month prison sentence for Sanaz Tafazoli, a Baha’i citizen currently detained in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad. Reports indicate that the Court of Appeal for Tafazoli’s case proceeded without notifying the defendant or her lawyer. The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court in the north-eastern city …

Iranwire – Iran experienced the most significant decline in internet freedom in 2023, driven by the authorities’ “disproportionate and violent” crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement, according to Freedom House. In a bid to quell the nationwide anti-government protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, the authorities arrested thousands of demonstrators, …

Iranwire – France has joined the United Kingdom in condemning 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 proudly 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 …

Iran-HRM Detention of Shahin Ahmadi, Mother of Armita Gravand, by Security Forces Five days after Armita Goravand fell into a coma on the October 4, Shahin Ahmadi, Armita Goravand’s mother, was detained by the security forces of the Iranian regime on Wednesday afternoon, October 4 ,2023. She was taken to an undisclosed location after her arrest in the vicinity of …