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Iranian Woman Prisoner Sews Lips in Prison, Launches Hunger Strike

Iranwire – A Kurdish woman incarcerated in north-western Iran has sewn her lips together at the start of a hunger strike to protest being denied leave from prison, a rights group has said. Soheila Mohammadi took the action in Urmia Central Prison because she was not granted a meeting with the regional prosecutor to ask for the furlough leave, the …

Iranwire – In recent days, videos of sexual relations allegedly involving a number of male officials of the Islamic Republic made the news. Reza Saghati, the dismissed director-general of Culture and Islamic Guidance in northern Gilan province and Hojatolislam Mahdi Haghshenas, former deputy of the Headquarters for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in the same province, are …

Iran-HRM – On Saturday, August 5, 2023, Nazila Maroufian was transferred from Evin Prison to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran due to “nervous and psychological stress and rapid heartbeat.” After a few hours of hospitalization, she was returned to Evin Prison. Nazila Maroufian is a 23-year-old Kurdish journalist from Saqqez, who resides in Tehran.According to a reliable source close to Nazila …

VOA —Three Iranian police officers were killed Sunday and 11 other people injured when several buildings collapsed in the capital Tehran, local media said. The policemen were securing the planned demolition of “unauthorized buildings” in southwest Tehran, ISNA news agency reported. It said that while attempting the demolition of the first building, five others collapsed. The incident “caused the death …

Al-Monitor – The recent Russia-Iran tension after Tehran summoned Russian ambassador over Moscow’s comment on the disputed islands with UAE, and the intelligence sharing blunder in Syria, has once again highlighted the limits of trust in bilateral relations. This did not come as a surprise to experts, although there was much talk after Russia invaded Ukraine about the changing nature of the tactical alliance …

Iranwire – Taraneh Alidoosti, Mustafa Al-Ahmad, Bahareh Hedayat, Narges Mohammadi, Arash Sadeg…

iranintl – Fifteen former Iran hostages have censured the Swedish government for “lack of mean…

iranintl – Actress Taraneh Alidoosti and filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad have been diagnosed with d…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has executed three more prisoners, including…

Iranwire – As protests erupted against the death sentence given to rapper Toomaj Salehi, the T…

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced a disabled man to four years in prison for ̶…

Iranwire – The police commander of the Islamic Republic revealed that 32 agencies are responsi…

Iranwire – Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has condemned the deat…

Iranwire – Local sources in Sistan and Baluchistan province reported on April 25 that six Iran…

gatestoneinstitute.org – Some of the signs say “pro-Palestine”, “ceasefire n…

VOA – The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones…

Iran Human Rights – Ali Khoshavaz, a man on death row for drug-related charges, and Shahram Sh…

iranintl – As much of the global media scrambled to decode where Iranians stand on the escalat…

.iranintl – Two weeks into the latest round of violent crackdowns on Iranian women refusing to…

iranintl – An increasing number of Iranian politicians, media outlets, and senior clerics are …

Iranwire – The death sentence handed down to protest rapper Toomaj Salehi has sparked a wave o…

Iranwire – A new report by the Iranian Parliament’s Research Center has named Sistan and…

Iranwire – The Dadban legal group has issued a grave warning regarding the imminent execution …

Iranwire – Forty nurses and operating room staff of a Tehran hospital have collectively resign…

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran executed four prisoners as death penalties continue to…

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