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Swedish-Iranian Death-Row Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike in Tehran

Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who is on death row in Iran’s Evin prison, has started a hunger strike to protest being left out of a recent Tehran-Stockholm prisoner exchange, ...
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Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Strike Reaches 22nd Week

The "No to Executions Tuesdays" campaign, a hunger strike movement by prisoners against capital punishment in Iran, has entered its 22nd week. On Tuesday, prisoners across twelve wards in ...
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Iran Sentences Three Labour Activists to Two Years in Jail Each

The Islamic Republic's judiciary has sentenced three labor activists to a combined six years in prison. Morteza Seydi, Mohammad Iran-Nejad, and Nasrollah Amirloo each received two-year sentences from Branch ...
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Iran’s presidential election dominated by Khamenei loyalists

Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession ...
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Iran sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate to another year in prison

Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been sentenced to another year in prison over her activism, her lawyer said Wednesday. Mostafa Nili, Mohammadi's lawyer, told The ...
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Iranians in Stockholm Rally Against Release of War Criminal

Iranians living in Sweden gathered outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday to protest the release of an Iranian official serving a life sentence for war crimes. Hamid ...
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