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Iranwire – An Iranian woman who made headlines in February after protesting the mandatory hijab during a meeting of engineers in Tehran has been sentenced to 74 lashes for “offending public decency.” The sentence, which was handed down on September 7, is suspended for five years, meaning that the punishment will be carried out if Zeinab Kazemi commits another “criminal …

Iranwire – Louis Arnaud, a French tourist arbitrarily jailed in Iran for 344 days, is celebrating his 36th birthday behind bars. “Today Louis is celebrating his 36th birthday in prison in Tehran. We think strongly of him, his parents, his sister. Let’s say STOP together! To support them, we are calling on you to tweet a photo of you holding …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – An unidentified woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Qom Central Prison. According information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a woman was executed in Qom Central Prison on 5 September. Her identity has not been established at the time of writing. She was from Varamin and had been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ali Abbas Najari, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Shiraz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on 5 September. His identity has been established as 37-year-old Ali Abbas Najari from Shiraz. Ali Abbas was arrested three years …

Al-Monitor – A Greek shipping company has admitted that one of the vessels it manages violated US sanctions on Iran earlier this year by exporting oil from the Persian Gulf state. The United States fined Empire Navigation Inc. $2.4 billion for the breach, it was revealed on Thursday. The company and the United States agreed to keep the violation secret for almost …