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Al-Monitor – A dissident Iranian journalist who went missing in Turkey in May has resurfaced in the hands of the Iranian authorities and was placed in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, according to his lawyer in Turkey. Mohammad Bagher Moradi contacted his family in November for the first time since his disappearance in Ankara, saying he was in custody in Tehran, …

Al-Monitor – The Biden administration on Friday unveiled fresh sanctions targeting three Iranian officials involved in the repression of the country’s nationwide protests and other human rights abuses.  Among those targeted by the US Treasury Department was Ali Akbar Javidan, the Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) commander in Iran’s western Kermanshah province who the department described as having direct oversight of forces that have killed …

Al-Monitor — When Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani speaks about battling corruption, implementing long overdue economic reforms or getting an elusive oil law done with the Kurdistan Region, you get the sense that he means it. Sudani, 52, is a former human rights minister and mayor of Maysan province. When he was 10 years old, Saddam Hussein’s regime killed his father …

Al-Arabia – Britain on Friday announced wide-ranging sanctions against 30 targets worldwide, including officials in Iran accused of pursuing “egregious sentences” against anti-regime protesters. The sanctions against the 10 people connected to Iran’s judicial and prison systems came after the clerical regime’s first execution of one such protester, which has triggered global condemnation. “This includes six individuals linked to the …

Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities will determinedly pursue punishing anti-regime protesters, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday, a day after Iran carried out its first death penalty over demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Speaking at a meeting with families of members of the security forces who have been killed in the unrest, Raisi stressed that punishing “rioters” and those behind deaths of …