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RFL/RE – Five more teachers who supported anti-government protests in Iran have been summoned to the Revolutionary Court, the latest in a series of similar moves, including trials, of teachers in other cities across the country. The Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council has confirmed the collective summons of teachers and cultural rights activists in the central Iranian city of Yazd. Three of …

Iranwire – A criminal court in Tehran has sentenced a woman to 270 hours of unpaid cleaning work for allegedly violating mandatory hijab rules in public places, the feminist Twitter account Bidarzani reported. “The accused must work for four hours daily in the building of the Ministry of Interior and its associated departments such as the governor’s office” in the capital, it …

Iranwire – A plot to assassinate outspoken Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid has been foiled, the Haalvsh human rights organization reported on June 19. Haalvsh, a group that monitors rights violations in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, said the security guards of Zahedan’s Makki Mosque arrested a man masquerading as a religious student who wanted to poison Molavi. The …

Iranwire – The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence (IRGC-IO) claimed on June 19 that the secret services of some 20 countries were involved in inciting months-long nationwide protests last year. In an interview with the website of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Brigadier General Mohammad Kazemi alleged that the United States, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United …

Iranwire – The UN human rights chief called for greater cooperation with the international human rights system as he addressed rights emergencies in Iran and dozens of other countries around the world. In his annual review presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which opened its 53rd regular session on June 19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker …