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Khuzestan Health Center: Coronavirus Cases Have Exceeded Expectations
Mohammad Alavi, head of the Khuzestan Health Center, stated in an interview with state television that cases of the new…
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Another Detainee from December 2019 Protests Sentenced to 6 Years Prison and Flogging
Seyyed Mostafa Hashemi-Zadeh, a civil engineering student at the University of Tehran who was detained during the December 2019 protests,…
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Mohammad Nouri-Zad Transferred to Evin Prison Following Protest in Mashhad Prison and Suicide Attempt
Several Iranian political and civil activists have reported the transfer of Mohammad Nouri-Zad, a political prisoner who recently attempted suicide…
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Nasrin Sotoudeh Criticizes Prison Conditions as She Enters Her Sixth Year of Imprisonment: Even Giving Me Books is Forbidden
As Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, begins her sixth year of incarceration, she has announced in…
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Following Sharp Devaluation of Iran’s Currency Due to US Sanctions; Parliament Removes Four Zeros and Changes Currency Unit to ‘Toman’
Following a sharp devaluation of the rial due to US sanctions, the Islamic Consultative Assembly on Monday, Ordibehesht 15, approved…
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Two-Year Prison Sentence for Women’s Rights Activist Upheld in Appeals Court; Crime: Protesting Mandatory Hijab
The two-year prison sentence for Raha Ahmadi, a women’s rights activist, which was previously issued by the Revolutionary Court, has…
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Narges Mohammadi: Beginning Another Year of Unjust Imprisonment
The spokesperson of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, in her fifth year of imprisonment, has described the condition of…
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Ali Nouri Zad’s Mother: My Son’s Sentence is Political and Intended to Pressure My Husband
Fatema Maleki, mother of Ali Nouri Zad who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by Branch…
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