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Iran Human Rights – A prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison on murder charges. According to a close source, on the morning of Tuesday, February 13, a prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison. The prisoner, identified as Majid Keykavusi from Marand, was sentenced to death on murder charges. An anonymous source told Iran Human Rights, “In 2012, Majid …

Iran Human Rights – A Shia prisoner from Tehran who was on the death-row has been saved from execution by the mediation of Molana Gorgij, the Sunni Imam of Friday prayers in Azad Shahr.

CHRI – In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked arrest, some were detained and some face serious charges. But they have not given up. They are the “Girls of Revolution Street.”

CHRI – Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 — The son of Kavous Seyed-Emami, an Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist who died under interrogation in Evin Prison in early February 2018, has broken his family’s silence on the case and issued a statement on his personal blog. In it, Ramin Seyed-Emami said a film of his father’s last hours in his cell …

CHRI – Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under interrogation in Evin Prison on February 9, 2018, said a film of the detainee’s last living hours does not show him committing suicide.