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Iranwire – The United States has denounced the desecration of over 30 graves of the Baha’i religious minority in a Tehran cemetery, condemning the Islamic Republic’s persecution of the community. “We condemn the destruction of 30 graves by authorities at the Khavaran Cemetery near Tehran this week. Baha’is in Iran continue to face violations of funeral and burial rights,” the State Department …

Iranwire – Authorities of the Islamic Republic detained at least 325 women in 2023 amid an escalated enforcement of mandatory hijab laws. The Hengaw Human Rights Organization, in a March 8 report, detailed the professions of several arrested women. According to it, the detainees include 18 students, 17 journalists and media activists, ten artists and actors, and seven teachers. The …

Iranwire – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, currently imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison, has called on the international community to unite in “criminalizing gender apartheid.” She criticized the Islamic Republic’s “malicious, deceptive, and misleading” use of religious principles to exacerbate gender inequality. Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, highlighted the systematic oppression faced by women in …

Iranwire – An incarcerated Iranian cleric known for his criticism of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said he has been under pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit.  The cleric, Mohammad Taqi Akbarnejad, a Qom seminary lecturer, has been lodged in Qom prison for 20 days.  “For 14 days following my arrest, I was held in solitary confinement at …

Iranwire – Dozens of Iranian Kurdish political activists who were arrested on a boat earlier this week en route to Italy are at risk of being sent back to Iran where they could face severe punishment, IranWire reports. On the evening of March 4, a video was received by IranWire showing Milad Arsanjani, a former political prisoner, discussing his arrest along with more than …