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Iranwire – School students have played a prominent role in the ongoing nationwide demonstrations sparked by the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police. They have joined the protest movement by removing their hijab at school, by writing “Woman, Life, Freedom” on blackboards, by pulling down pictures of Supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the …

Iranwire – The United Nations’ top human rights body has voted to establish an independent fact-finding mission to investigate abuses committed by Iranian security forces in their brutal crackdown on nationwide protests that have gripped the country for weeks. During a November 24 session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, 25 council members backed a resolution put forward by Germany and …

VOA – Iran arrested a prominent former member of its national soccer team on Thursday over his criticism of the government as authorities grapple with nationwide protests that have cast a shadow over its competition at the World Cup. The semiofficial Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported that Voria Ghafouri was arrested for “insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing …

Amnesty – Responding to today’s announcement that the UN Human Rights Council has passed a landmark resolution to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022, especially with respect to women and children, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:  “This important and long overdue step shows …

RFL/RE – Australia and the Netherlands have confirmed the arrests of dual nationals in Iran and say the detainees have been denied consular access. A spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs on November 24 said an Iranian-Australian had been detained, though not for participating in protests over the death of a young woman while in police custody for allegedly …