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theguardian – Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country. Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly …

RFL/RE – Following the call for three days of nationwide strikes in Iran, shopkeepers in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj have clashed with police forces who came to seal the strikers’ shops on December 8. Hengaw, a Norway-based group that monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions, reported that following the clashes, shopkeepers defied the move by authorities to keep their …

RFL/RE – Five Iranian security officers pounced on a young protester after he fell to the ground, beating him severely. As a crowd approached to intervene, one officer held a gun to the man’s head, threatening to shoot him if anyone came closer. The several dozen demonstrators backed away, but the officers, reinforced with additional manpower, fired three warning shots …

Iranwire – An Iranian group that represents the relatives of people summarily executed by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s are demanding an immediate halt to death sentences, the unconditional release of all political prisoners. Mothers of Khavaran made the call in a statement on December 9, according to the activist HRANA news agency, a day after the Iranian authorities carried out …

Iranwire – Protesters in the eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan took to the streets after Friday prayer, calling for more freedoms, the release of all political prisoners and the downfall of the clerical regime. According to images published on social media on December 9, residents of the provincial capital, Zahedan, carried the Iranian three-color flag without the emblem of the …