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RFL/RE – Thousands of Iranian workers have signed a protest letter sent to President Ebrahim Raisi against an increase that would see the minimum wage rise by only about half of the current inflation rate. In the letter, which was signed by almost 20,000 workers, a request was made to immediately annul the increase and instead approve a new pay …

Iranwire – Well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan, who is awaiting trial for “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s leader, has been subjected to physical abuse and threatened with rape while in custody, a relative told IranWire. Qoliyan was re-arrested last month, hours after she posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali …

Iranwire – In 2018, dozens of courageous Iranian women protested the Islamic Republic’s repressive mandatory hijab laws by removing their headscarves in public and by placing them on sticks. The defiant protesters, who became known as the “Girls of Revolution Street,” were accused of “encouraging corruption” and received severe punishment for that. Two Iranian men, Reza Khandan, the husband of …

Iranwire – Ali Bahrampour’s ordeal began after he attended a November 2022 ceremony in Karaj, near Tehran, for a victim of the brutal crackdown by the authorities on protests that erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. In an interview with InranWire, Bahrampour, 39, said that he spent nearly three months in an un-official detention center and …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- In her foreword to the 2022 Annual Report on the Death Penalty, prominent human rights defender, Atena Daemi writes: “The public demands the complete abolition of the death penalty. We, the activists of the right to life, will continue this struggle until that has been achieved.” The Islamic Republic has been using the death penalty as …