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Three Iranian writers sentenced to 15 years and six months in prison
Branch 36 of the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeal sentenced three Iranian writers to 15 years and six months in prison. Reza Khandan…
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A number of political prisoners protest the beating of Narges Mohammadi
A number of political prisoners, in a letter addressed to judicial officials, condemned the treatment of political prisoners…
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Larijani dismissed from the post of head of the Judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters and appointed Bagheri Kani
Ali Bagheri Kani, by order of the head of the judiciary, replaced Javad Larijani as the secretary of the Judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters...
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"90-fold increase" in loan requests for child marriage in Iran
Reports indicate that, along with the increase in the number of marriage loans in Iran, the number of applicants for these loans for marriages of people under 15…
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Kurdistan Human Rights Network: Three detained male students were sexually harassed during the protests
In a report on the protests in the last week of November this year, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported on the sexual harassment of teenagers arrested…
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Increasing number of women addicted to drugs
The head of the Anti-Narcotics Police said: The prevalence rate of drug use among women is not higher than that of men, but the percentage of women who…
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Call on the Security Council to condemn Iran's violence against protesters
A number of human rights defenders inside and outside Iran have called for it in a letter to the rotating president of the Security Council…
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Pouya Bakhtiari's grave is "besieged by security forces"
Relatives of Pouya Bakhtiari's family told Deutsche Welle Farsi that the burial site of this victim of the November protests in Behesht Sakineh, Karaj, is completely "besieged"...
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