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Iranwire – Iranian authorities have sentenced Kurdish civil activist Ayoub Javanpour to a total of 15 years in prison, according to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. The Revolutionary Court in the western city of Saqqez on July 22 handed down a ten-year prison sentence for “leading a crowd of more than two people to disrupt security,” two years for “insulting the …

Iranwire – IranWire has obtained images from Tehran’s Shahrak Gharb neighborhood and Vanak Square showing a noticeable surge in the presence of Morality Police officers monitoring citizens’ clothing. The deployment of police comes amid heightened tension between the government and the Iranian population over the mandatory hijab rules, as the first anniversary of the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini in police custody draws …

Iranwire – Over the past 44 years, the religious and political missionaries of the Islamic Republic have relied on the deep belief of a significant portion of the Iranian people in the Third Shia Imam. Every year, millions of Iranians observe Ashura on the 10th day in the month of Muḥarram, the first month in the Islamic lunar calendar, as …

Iranwire – Late June to late July of this year has been one of the more difficult months for the Baha’is in Iran. And even since March, in an escalating situation with a Ministry of Intelligence official, Baha’is in Tehran have been denied of the right to bury their dead in a Baha’i-owned cemetery in the city. After days and sometimes after …

CHRI – The forced psychiatric hospitalization of jailed rapper Saman Yasin in Iran shortly after he demanded due process and justice for his case highlights the Iranian government’s continued weaponization of medical treatment in order to suppress dissent, in flagrant violation of international and Iranian law. Yasin was also previously tortured to force him to confess to a crime, according …