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Another student commits suicide due to inability to afford a smartphone; the result of 40 years of government indifference to people's deprivation
While it has only been a few weeks since the news of an 11-year-old child's suicide due to extreme poverty was published, reports...
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“Emptying Evin for mass arrests”; Reason for prisoner transfers
در روزهای اخیر نسرین ستوده و چهار زندانی دیگر از اوین به قرچک منتقل شدند. شیرین عبادی و یک وکیل…
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Iran's ambassador to Iraq sanctioned by US
The United States has sanctioned Iran’s ambassador to Iraq for “membership in the Quds Force.” At the same time, the United States has sanctioned five other Iranian entities…
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Video of young woman being beaten in Abadan; security guard sent to prison
Following the release of a video of a woman in Abadan with a "bloody face" being pushed to the ground by two other women...
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More than forty days after the execution; No access to Navid Afkari's case/ Increasing concern about the Afkari brothers' situation
Hassan Younesi, the lawyer for the Afkari brothers, complained about the lack of access to Navid Afkari's case despite 40 days having passed since his execution.
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More than 600 writers, civil society and political activists demanded the release of imprisoned writers
More than 600 writers, poets, journalists, artists, and civil and political activists supported the statement of the "Iranian Writers' Association"...
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Former head of Iran's Red Crescent Society "sentenced to 12 years in prison"
Ali Asghar Peyvandi, former head of the Iranian Red Crescent Organization, sentenced to "12 years in prison, flogging, dismissal from government service" on financial charges...
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Coronavirus in Iran; triple-digit increase in victims continues, total deaths exceed 31,000
For the second consecutive day, the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Health on Wednesday, October 20, announced the official number of coronavirus victims in Iran…
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