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VOA – An Iranian opposition leader’s website is raising the alarm about the health of a female member of Iran’s Gonadabi dervish minority who was arrested in Tehran in a violent clash with police in February.   The Saham News site of Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under house arrest for years, published the report about the detained woman, Shokoufeh …

VOA —Workers in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan have launched an extended protest against water shortages and nonpayment of wages. Social media users who contacted VOA Persian said farmers from the town of Bavi protested for a third straight day outside a local government building in nearby Ahvaz city on Monday. They said the farmers complained of not receiving enough …

HRANA News Agency – Abdulfattah Soltani, a lawyer and prominent human rights defender who is enduring his seventh year of imprisonment, went to Evin Prison by the end of his furlough.

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS –  At least 12 death row prisoners have been transferred to solitary confinement in Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj in preparation for execution. It is believed that their sentence will be implemented on Wednesday, May 5. Iran Human Rights (IHR) warns against a new wave of execution in Iran. IHR’s spokesperson Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said:” Iranian authorities use …

Iran Human Rights – At least one prisoner, named Seyyed Iman Hosseini Moqaddam, was transferred to solitary confinement. The prisoner, who was referred to as “the fake postman,” was sentenced to death on the charge of rape. However, the prisoner and his family believe that there is a political and economic reason for this charge.