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Iranwire – Security forces in Tehran prevented mourners from gathering at a cemetery on January 17 to mark the end of a 40-day mourning period for a young man executed last month in connection with the ongoing wave of nationwide protests. In other areas of the Iranian capital, protesters managed to hold rallies and put up banners of Mohsen Shekari, …

Iranwire – France’s government says it is “extremely worried” about the health of a 64-year-old French-Irish citizen who is on hunger and water strike in an Iranian prison. The French Foreign Ministry said on January 17 that Bernard Phélan’s health is “fragile” and “requires appropriate medical monitoring, which is not provided in his place of detention.” The ministry said it was working …

Iranwire – Five weeks after the arrest of Faraz Haghighatjo, a member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority, his relatives still don’t know what he is being accused of. The prosecutor in charge of Haghighatjo’s case has recently extended his detention, a source close to the family told IranWire, fueling concern that his interrogators have pressured him to confess to …

Iranwire – A 24-year-old ethnic Baluch man has succumbed to injuries sustained during the Iranian authorities’ bloody crackdown on protesters in the eastern city of Zahedan in September, activists say. HAALVSH, a group that monitors rights violations of the Sunni minority in Iran, said that Mansour Hormozi fell into a coma after security forces shot him in the back on …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have detained a German national for allegedly taking photos of “sensitive oil centers” in the southern province of Khuzestan, local media report. Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said on January 17 that the German citizen was arrested while taking pictures of oil facilities in Omidiyeh. Jam-e Jam daily, which …