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Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested Hanieh Tavassoli, a renowned film actress, and taken her to an undisclosed location.  “My sister Hanieh Tavassoli was arrested tonight at 11:45 pm at her home and taken to an undisclosed location,” her sister Tannaz Tavassoli said in an Instagram post on September 16.  On the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in …

Iranwire – A 27-year-old man who was shot in the head by security forces on the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death yesterday has been declared brain dead, IranWire reports. The medical team in charge of Fardin Jafari’s case has made the decision to disconnect him from life support. However, the security apparatus appears to be obstructing this action, prolonging …

VOA – The one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa “Jina” Amini was marked Saturday by a strong military presence and a general strike by tradespeople and shopkeepers in Kurdish cities across numerous provinces of Iran — along with protest rallies in cities worldwide. Numerous images circulating Saturday on social media also showed a significant number of military and security …

VOA – Hundreds gathered in central London on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests of the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy. Chanting “Women! Life! Freedom!,” the crowds held her portrait and rallied around the memory of a young woman who …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus tales published in the United States in 1881. In it, the evil Br’er Fox conjures a doll made of tar and turpentine with which to entrap the Br’er Rabbit. The more the victim tries to shake himself free, the more entangled he becomes. These days, of course, some policymakers and …