Concern grew on Tuesday for an Iranian student arrested after stripping to her underwear in protest at alleged harassment over her dress, with activists worried authorities could confine her ...
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Iranian regime aiming for ‘silent death’ of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner thought to have cancer
The family of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi have accused the Iranian regime of trying to bring about her “slow death” by depriving her of a vital surgery ...
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Women Are Leading the Resistance Against Executions in Iran
Amid Iran’s heightened, unconscionable mass scale of executions and a growing abolitionist campaign of resistance led from within the country’s prisons, Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the death sentence
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Iran: 36 Executions in Past 7 Days, Including 2 Child Offenders
The “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, which consists of hunger-striking prisoners from over 22 prisons across Iran, issued a statement on October 15 during its 38th week. The statement ...
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Iranian prisoners protest against rising executions
October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty, with the goal to raise awareness about capital punishment and advocate for it to be abolished. On Wednesday, the ...
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American held for 8 years in notorious Iranian prison tells of ordeal
Siamak Namazi, an American who spent eight years wrongfully imprisoned in Iran, has told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour of the “unutterable indignities” he suffered in captivity, in an exclusive television ...
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