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Women join protests in Iran’s restive southeast in ‘rare’ move: Rights group

Al-Arabia – Women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, in what a rights group called a “rare” move for women in the staunchly conservative Sunni Muslim province. Online videos showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital Zahedan holding banners that declared “Woman, life, freedom” — one of the main slogans of …

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Iranian Sunni Cleric Urges Tehran To Listen To Protesters, Says “We are all Iranians”

Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has again used his Friday sermon to urge the country’s Shia leadership to listen to the Iranian people, whom he said are “tired of discrimination, pressures and poverty”, instead of repressing them. Molavi Abdolhamid, the Friday prayer leader in the eastern city of Zahedan, made the comments on December 2 amid a bloody …

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“You Are Impure”: Jailed Iranian Student Activist Abdipour Subjected To Violence, Denied Bail

Iranwire – Faizeh Abdipour, an Iranian university student and human rights activist who was detained last week for her involvement in the ongoing protest movement, has been transferred to the central prison in the northern city of Gorgan, IranWire reports. Abdipour, who is also a member of the Gonabadi Dervish religious community, is facing charges of “spreading propaganda” against the …

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Iran Protest Crackdown: 5 ½-Year-Old Pellet Victim Loses Sight In One Eye

Iranwire – Benita Kiani Flavarjani was playing with her cousin in their grandfather’s home in the central Iranian city of Isfahan when they heard the sound of gunfire. Curious to know what was happening outside, the two kids went to the balcony, where Benita’s head was hit by some 20 metal pellets fired by police. Now, the 5 ½-year-old girl …

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Members Of Iran’s Beach Football Team Sacked Over Protests

Iranwire – Iran’s Football Federation has sacked four members of the national beach football team who had expressed support for protests that have swept the country for 2 ½ months.  Saeed Piramoon, Mohammad Ahmadzadeh, Moslim Mesigar and Mustafa Kiani have not been invited to the team’s latest training camp, in yet another example of the Iranian government’s interference in sports. …

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