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RFL/RE – The United States said on January 9 that Iran’s sale of lethal drones to Russia for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine means the country may be “contributing to widespread war crimes.” While it did not signal a policy shift, the charge marked some of the sharpest U.S. rhetoric against Iran since it began providing weapons to …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced prominent sports journalist Ehsan Pirbornash to 18 years in prison, his wife says, amid an intensifying clampdown on the media in the country. “Despite having a letter from the prison’s doctor stating that he is sick and could not tolerate imprisonment, and despite my husband’s innocence, Ehsan Pirbornash was sentenced today to 18 years in …

VOA – U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said Tuesday Iran is violating international human rights law with its execution of people involved in protests. “The weaponization of criminal procedures to punish people for exercising their basic rights — such as those participating in or organizing demonstrations — amounts to state sanctioned killing,” Türk said in a statement. Iran has …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced former lawmaker and women’s rights advocate Faezeh Hashemi to five years in prison, her lawyer says, amid a brutal crackdown on nearly four months of nationwide anti-government protests. Lawyer Neda Shams made the announcement on Twitter on January 9, adding that Hashemi, who is the daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced Mostafa Hosseini Tabatabaei, an Islamologist and scholar of Quran, and seven of his students to a total of 28 years in prison and deprivation of civil rights for their views on Shia Islam. Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Tabatabaei to eight years in prison. The other defendants in the case (Abdolhamid …