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Amnesty – The Iranian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, intimidation and harassment of relatives of children, unlawfully gunned down or beaten to death by security forces in connection with protests, exposes their inconceivable cruelty and sinister attempt to cover up their crimes, said Amnesty International today.    In updated research, Amnesty International has documented how the unlawful killings of children by Iran’s security forces …

Al-Monitor — The execution of Mohsen Shekari at a prison outside Tehran on Thursday unleashed a barrage of furious reactions from ordinary Iranians in the midst of the anti-government unrest that has engulfed Iran for nearly three months.    The early morning announcement on Thursday marked the first known death penalty carried out against a detainee arrested in the ongoing protests and sent …

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 …