Human rights
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Salar and Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani's hunger strike in Urmia Prison
HRANA News Agency – Salar and Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani, political prisoners in Urmia Prison, have been protesting since Monday, January 4th…
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Two citizens killed and injured in shooting by police officers in Iranshahr
HRANA News Agency – On Sunday, January 1, a citizen was injured and…
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Contradictory statistics from the Iranian Vice Presidency on the number of Iranian immigrants in the world
The Vice President of Iran for Science and Technology announced that the population of Iranian immigrants in the world will be around 1.9 million by 2020…
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Security forces search Narges Mohammadi's home and seize her belongings
HRANA News Agency – The home of Narges Mohammadi, spokesperson for the Center for Human Rights Defenders, was searched by security forces on Wednesday, January 28…
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Twitter storm in support of a political prisoner; Maryam Akbari Monfared has not taken leave in the past 12 years
As political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared begins her 13th year in prison, a group of Iranian users have launched a Twitter storm in support of…
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Assad's opposition group 'intends' to use 9 Iranian refugees in prisoner swap
Four months after the Turkish government handed over nine Iranian Kurdish refugees to an armed group opposed to the government…
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France confirms Sirvan Alipour, 23-year-old Iranian refugee, among Channel Channel deaths
Three weeks after a boat carrying refugees capsized while crossing the English Channel, French authorities confirmed the death of Sirvan Alipour, a 23-year-old refugee…
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UN official: Iran has deported 360,000 Afghan refugees
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal wrote on Sunday, December 11, in a field report from the Afghan border with Iran that the Islamic Republic…
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