Human rights
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Iran News
20 human rights organizations call on Iran to immediately release female political prisoners
Twenty international and Iranian human rights organizations have called on Iranian authorities in an open letter to release female political prisoners...
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Nine Baha'i citizens sentenced to over 51 years in prison
Nine Baha’i citizens living in Birjand have been sentenced to a total of 51 years and 8 months in prison by the city’s Revolutionary Court.…
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Human Rights Commissioner expresses concern over execution of prisoners following protests in Iranian prisons
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, while condemning the execution of two juvenile offenders in Iran four days apart,…
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Iran News
هشدار سازمان ملل درمورد نفرتپراکنی علیه اقلیتها در بحران کرونا
سازمان ملل متحد نسبت به سوء استفاده از شرایط بحران کرونا برای پیشبرد منافع اقتصادی و سیاسی و حمله به…
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A journalist in Iran was fired for criticizing Environmental Protection Agency officials.
Zeinab Rahimi, an environmental reporter for ISNA News Agency, following criticism of the Director General of Public Relations of the Environmental Protection Agency in…
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Repression of activists continues in Iran; two student activists beaten and arrested
In recent days, two student activists and elite students of Sharif University of Technology, Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student,…
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Journalist Keyvan Samimi sentenced to five years in prison
Keyvan Samimi, a journalist and one of the detainees on International Workers' Day in Iran, has been sentenced to five years in prison.…
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World events
US calls for immediate release of prisoners of conscience: Release Nasrin Sotoudeh, Morad Tahbaz, and Mohammad Hossein Sepehri
Morgan Ortagus, spokesperson for the US State Department, in a message calling for the release of political prisoners in Iran who are at risk of...
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