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RFL/RE – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested 12 alleged members of a European-linked group accused of planning acts of sabotage in the country, Tasnim news agency said. Iran has been rocked by more than two months of what it calls deadly “riots” that it says have been fomented by the United States, its allies, and foreign-based opposition groups. In a …

Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary says five people have been sentenced to death for allegedly killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during a demonstration near Tehran last month. The Basij has had a key role in the bloody crackdown unleashed by Iranian security forces on 12 weeks of nationwide demonstrations triggered by the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa …

Iranwire – Protesters seeking the downfall of Iran’s clerical regime took to the streets of dozens of cities on December 5, eyewitness reports and videos published on social media show, as many shops shut their doors following calls for a three-day nationwide strike. Iran has been rocked by unrest following the September 16 death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa …

Iranwire – Veran Matic co-founded Serbia’s independent news outlet B92 in 1989, ahead of the 1990s Balkan Wars. He also chairs the Commission for Investigating Killings of Journalists in Sebia, established in 2013 on his initiative, and leads the B92 Fund, which is engaged in social and humanitarian activities. Over the span of three decades, he has received numerous prestigious …

Iranwire – Pouya Sarraf, an Iranian Baha’i, aged 33, was arrested in the city of Karaj a month ago, on November 2, and later transferred to a detention facility in Shiraz. Sarraf, who has been held for more than 30 days, was arrested in front of his four-year-old child by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence. His detention comes as part of …