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Iranwire – Iran’s most prominent Sunni cleric has been under intense pressure from the country’s security forces to stop using his Friday sermons to criticize the Islamic Republic, human rights activists say. “By putting pressure on Molavi Abdolhamid, the security and military institutions have asked him to end the Friday protests in Baluchistan and to stop delivering critical sermons. He …

Iranwire – In the early years of the 2000s, several Iranian footballers who played for Pas FC claimed they had been forced to sign up with the club after being arrested in police raids on parties and other gatherings. At that time, the club’s chairman, Mostafa Ajorlou, who serves as a commander in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), …

Iranwire – An Iranian court in the eastern city of Zahedan has sentenced a 22-year-old disabled protester to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” human rights activists say, amid a brutal state crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests. Mansour Dehmordeh, an ethnic Baluch, went on trial on January 3 and was informed of his sentence by the judge two …

Iranwire – An Iranian journalist was hospitalized for a few hours after she fainted during a court hearing in which the charges against her were being heard, IranWire reports.   Nazila Maroufian fell unconscious on January 4 in the courtroom in the city of Varamin, near Tehran, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The sources said Maroufian was transferred …

CHRI – Since anti-state protests broke out across Iran in September 2022, following the killing in state custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, hundreds of peaceful protesters have been killed by state security forces and thousands arrested. Two young men have also been executed, and at least 15 have been sentenced to death while at least 43 are facing charges that could carry …