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US secures release of American hostage in Iran; Xiu Wang on way back to US

According to US media reports, on Saturday, December 6, 2019, "Xiu Wang", a US citizen, was killed on a government plane...

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Seyyed Hamid Taheri's family: We thought they were shooting in the air

Rahim Ejri, the father-in-law of Seyyed Hamid Taheri, who died from a gunshot wound on Saturday, November 15, in an interview with…

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Seven years in prison for giving flowers to people on the subway

Seven civil society activists, two of whom had given flowers to people on the subway, were sentenced to a total of 29 years in prison…

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Hook: Security forces may have killed more than a thousand people in Iran protests

The US special representative for Iran said in a press conference that security forces likely arrested more than a thousand people from…

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Kaleme website: More than 140 people have been killed in protests in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and West Azerbaijan

According to the Kaleme website, more than 140 people have lost their lives in recent Iranian protests in the provinces of Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and West Azerbaijan…

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Continued repression of religious minorities in Iran | A Baha'i citizen was sentenced to 11 years in prison

Continuing the repression of Baha'i citizens in Iran, Ali Ahmadi, a Baha'i citizen living in Ghaemshahr, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

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Shahnaz Akmali, mother of one of those killed in the 2009 protests, summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence

Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of Mustafa Karim Beigi, one of those killed in the 2009 protests, was sent to prison to serve her one-year sentence…

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Reaction of the families of some of the victims of the Iranian popular protests to Khamenei's offer to pay blood money

Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, who had described the protesters as "evil, hateful, and unworthy people," said in his latest speech...

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