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BBC – It was the middle of the night when the phone call came. Gazelle Sharmahd was woken up by her mother, who told her that her father, Jamshid, was calling from his jail cell in Iran. Gazelle hadn’t been allowed to talk to her father, an Iranian-German businessman, for two years. “We didn’t even know if he’d already been …

Al-Arabia – Iran announced on Sunday that its morality police patrol units would resume operations after a monthslong absence following the death of Mahsa Amini while in their custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died last September, three days after being arrested by Tehran’s morality police for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for women. News of her death fueled …

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric criticized the Islamic Republic’s brutal enforcement of mandatory veiling, saying in his Friday sermon that the vicious tactics used to force women and girls into covering their hair in public are fueling civil disobedience. Molavi Abdulhamid, the Friday prayer leader of Zahedan, made the comments on July 21, as residents of the restive …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have shot and killed a resident of the south-western city of Izeh who had been involved in last year’s nationwide protests, according to the Hengaw human rights organization. Seyyed Mostafa Ahmadpour died during a clash with armed forces on July 20.  Government-affiliated media outlets confirmed Ahmadpour’s death, describing him as one of the “instigators of …

Iranwire – Individuals donning uniforms of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) violently attacked a group of Iranian tourists in a northern mountainous area early on July 20, according to information obtained by IranWire. “At around one o’clock in the morning, while the tourists were preparing to sleep after a touristic tour in the Opart area, over 30 IRGC officers on …