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150 political and civil activists: The healthcare system has reached the brink of collapse due to privatization

About 150 political and trade union activists, artists, and journalists inside and outside Iran criticized…

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Nazanin Zaghari's leave from prison extended for another two weeks

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen, was temporarily released from Evin Prison due to the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak. Her leave period…

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Narges Mohammadi's mother: We are worried about my daughter's life, but we are being threatened

Narges Mohammadi, the vice president of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, has a lung disease and is being held in a room without ventilation in Zanjan Prison.

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Human rights media report the deaths of several prisoners in Greater Tehran Prison and Urmia Prison due to coronavirus infection.

In recent days, at least 9 prisoners in Greater Tehran and Urmia prisons have died from coronavirus.

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Call on the World Health Organization: Iran to release political prisoners

A group of political and civil activists inside and outside Iran wrote a letter to human rights organizations and…

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Four journalists critical of water cuts in Shahrood last year sentenced to prison and fines

In Shahrood, four journalists, Mehdi Ameri, Reza Zolfaghari, Mohammad Hossein Nademi, and Mostafa Sharif, were sentenced by the Criminal Court to a total of…

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Iranian spy in German army sentenced to nearly seven years in prison

Six years and ten months in prison is the sentence imposed by the Supreme Court of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the country's army translator...

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UN official calls for release of imprisoned environmental activists in Iran on Nowruz

The head of the United Nations Environment Program called for the release of environmental prisoners in Iran on the occasion of Nowruz. Inger Andersen…

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