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Iranwire – Prominent Iranian activist Hossein Ronaghi’s life is in danger as his Evin Prison hunger strike hits 47 days, his family have told IranWire.  “Hossein’s life is in danger. Hossein is ill and has already lost his left kidney,” Ahmad Ronaghai, his father said. “And it has been determined that Hossein’s right kidney is now 40% damaged.” Ahmad Ronaghi was transferred …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces fired tear gas Monday at people participating in a ceremony to mark the third day since the death of a young man, Erfan Zamani, a 23-year-old student and construction worker who was killed last Thursday in Lahijan by security forces. He was from Siahkel city and had traveled to Lahijan to participate in recent protests. A large …

Iranwire – The crackdown by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the nationwide protest movement triggered by the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police has intensified day by day. The number of casualties recorded over the past seven weeks illustrates the unrelenting violence to which the mostly peaceful protestors, from children to the elderly, …

Iranwire – Almost every day, IranWire receives reports about young people who have met their death in the hands of brutal security forces cracking down on nationwide protests. On Sunday, November 6, an informed source said an 18-year-old man named of Esmail Heydari was killed about a month ago in Tonekabon, on the Caspian Sea, but his family was forced …

VOA – The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was detained by the country’s morality police for breaking a rule that mandates females wear hijabs, has sparked nearly two months of protests in every province across Iran. Videos on social media have shown Iranian women lighting their headscarves on fire, cutting their hair in public and …