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Interview with a relative of the Afkari brothers: The entire case was based on forced confessions after severe torture
A source close to the Afkari brothers says the death sentences and long prison sentences for the three brothers are based on forced confessions…
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Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike continues in prison; German Judges' Association awards her human rights award
While 23 days have passed since the hunger strike of imprisoned lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in Iran, an organization related to judges in…
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Whistleblower of government internet shutdown during November protests sentenced to prison and banned from journalism
Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed was sentenced to prison and banned from journalism by a ruling of the Revolutionary Court. The Iranian journalist…
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The official number of coronavirus cases in Iran has exceeded 380,000.
Sima Lari, a spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health, announced on Thursday that 129 people in Iran have died in the past 24 hours.
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Rouhani's government promises "free electricity" for 30 million Iranians
For the second time in as many weeks, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani promised on Thursday that 30 million people…
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15-year-old girl attempts suicide in Kermanshah
On Wednesday, September 12, a 15-year-old teenage girl in Kermanshah attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself from the fifth floor of a building.
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Navid Afkari's lawyer rejects Judiciary News Agency's claim; Navid and Vahid Afkari: We are innocent, we were tortured
Hassan Younesi, Navid Afkari's lawyer and son of Iran's former intelligence minister, announced that his client's case contains "no images of...
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Mohammad Musaed, an economic journalist, was sentenced to "four years and nine months in prison."
Mohammad Musaed, an economic journalist who has been arrested twice in the past year for his reporting on economic corruption and the November 2019 protests...
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