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Iranwire – Iranian police say they have filed a legal case against two female actors, Katayoun Riahi and Panthea Bahram, who have recently appeared in public without a mandatory head covering. The two actresses are accused of “removing hijab in public and publishing pictures on the internet,” Tehran police said in a statement on April 24.  Riahi and Bahram are …

Iranwire – Over the past seven months, Iranian security forces have “killed, tortured, sexually assaulted and disappeared children” as part of a brutal crackdown on protests and dissent by people demanding fundamental change in the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The authorities have also arrested and detained minors without notifying their families, sometimes for weeks, and interrogated and prosecuted …

Iranwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately release Keyvan Samimi, a 74-year-old dissident journalist who was arrested last week before he was scheduled to speak at a virtual conference. In a statement on April 24, the New York-based media freedom watchdog also urged the authorities to drop any charges against Samimi …

Iranwire – The strike movement is spreading in Iran, where workers from the oil sector and other industries are protesting inadequate wage rises amid spiraling inflation. According to the Council for Organizing Protests of Oil and Gas Contract Workers, at least 30 companies in oil and gas projects, refineries, mines and steel factories are now being hit by strikes, which …

Iranwire – An unknown number of Iranian students and teachers were taken to medical centers for treatment on April 24 after multiple girls’ schools were targeted by chemical attacks. The attacks were reported in at least three provinces: Kurdistan, Hamadan and Alborz.  According to reports, two teachers from a school in Karaj, near Tehran, were hospitalized at the special care …