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Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi calls for election boycott "out of respect for the blood of those killed in recent Iranian protests"
Narges Mohammadi, a civil rights activist imprisoned in Iran, published a short note referring to the government's repression and killing of protesters...
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Continued repression of freedom of expression in Iran; journalist sentenced to 8 years in prison
Khosrow Sadeghi Borujeni, a journalist and researcher in the field of labor and social welfare, was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.…
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Eight authors of letter calling for Khamenei's resignation sentenced to 72 years in prison
Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, a lawyer, says that eight of the signatories of the open letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to resign from…
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Seven teachers' union activists sentenced to a total of 41 years in prison and flogging
Seven North Khorasan educators' union activists were sentenced in two separate cases by the Revolutionary Court and the Bojnourd Criminal Court.
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A Kurdish political prisoner was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
The 11-year prison sentence of a Marivan resident named Tahsin Dadras was reduced to 6 years by the appeals court.
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Another wave of pressure on Baha'is: Four Baha'is sentenced to four years in prison and two others arrested
In the continuation of the repression of religious minorities in Iran, four Baha'i citizens have been sentenced to prison and two other Baha'i citizens have been…
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Two detainees in Evin Prison sentenced to a total of more than 23 years in prison
Reza Mohammad Hosseini and Khaled Pirzadeh, citizens detained in Evin Prison, were sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to a total of 23 years and…
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Christendom and Persecution
A Christian convert was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Esmael Maghrebnejad, a Christian convert living in Shiraz who was arrested by security forces in early February of last year, was…
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