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RFL/RE – The United States has expressed support for a raid by Albanian authorities on a camp near the capital, Tirana, that houses thousands of members of a group of exiled opponents of the Iranian government. Albanian state police seized dozens of computers on June 20 during a raid of the Ashraf 3 camp where some 2,800 members of the …

RFL/RE – The Iranian hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali has published documents that it says show that a top Iranian prosecutor confirmed that a “full naked body inspection” of a female political prisoner had taken place at a police detention center. The information, which Edalat-e Ali said it obtained by hacking into Iran’s judiciary, came to light amid multiple complaints from …

Iranwire – Years ago, I wrote somewhere that “journalism is not poetry.” Yet over time, covering news and human rights violations in Iran, my writing has been saturated with darkness and anguish. And my conversation with Mahmonir Molaei-Rad, the mother of Kian Pirfalak, proved to be an exceptionally challenging and profound journalistic experience. Though I had prepared numerous questions, as …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has executed a Kurdish man who had spent years on death row for his alleged role in the killing of a security force member, according to a human rights organization. The authorities hanged Heyman Mustafaei early on June 21 in Sanandaj Central Prison, in western Iran, as his family and civil activists were gathered …

Iranwire – The daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian man sentenced to death in Iran, has asked authorities in Germany to open criminal proceedings against Iranian judicial authorities, alleging crimes against humanity. Gazelle Sharmahd filed a criminal complaint with the German federal prosecutor’s office against eight high-ranking members of the judiciary and the intelligence service, the Berlin-based European Center for …