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RFL/RE – The lawyer of Iranian protester Javad Ruhi, who has been handed three death sentences after being charged with “corruption on Earth,” says the cases against his client lacked evidence and witnesses. In an interview with the Tehran-based Shargh newspaper, lawyer Majid Kaveh reasserted that his client has denied the accusations “repeatedly and clearly” in interrogations as well as in …

Iranwire – An Iranian political activist who signed a letter in 2019 calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison, her brother says. Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in the northeastern city of Mashhad sentenced Fatemeh Sepehri on charges including “propaganda against the regime,” “cooperating with hostile …

Iranwire – Razieh Janbaz, the first Iranian woman to play with a foreign handball team, has announced that she has been banned from leaving the country, and shared a picture of herself without the mandatory hijab. “It is strange that a protester means a criminal,” the 26-year-old former member of the national handball team wrote on her official Instagram page …

Iranwire – An Iranian student union is accusing the president of Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University of cooperating with the Ministry of Intelligence to suppress students amid an ongoing brutal crackdown on nationwide protests. The Student Union Council of Iran on February 21 said Farhad Daneshjou was using fear and threats to exert psychological pressure on the students and silence them. …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …