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MP calls for family visits after reports of prisoner beatings
Ali Motahari Iranian MP Ali Motahari has called on prison authorities to arrange for the families of political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin…
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Prison official denies attack on Evin prisoners
Golamhossein Esmaili The head of Iran’s Prison Organization denies that Evin Prison was the site of any recent violence or attacks. ILNA reports that…
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Official confirms execution for bank fraud to proceed
Mahafarid Amir Khosravi Iran’s Chief Auditor Nasser Seraj announced that there is no truth to rumours that a death sentence issued in the so-called…
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Evin political prisoners target of punishing attack
In a fierce attack by Intelligence Ministry and Revolutionary Guards Intelligence forces and more than 100 Prison Guard soldiers, more than 30 political prisoners…
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Hunger strike aims to support families of prisoners
Arash Mohammadi and Ayat Mehralibeglo two Iranian political prisoners, have been on hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison since Tuesday April 15 to protest…
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University to discipline students after protests, chants
Following protests against the presence of Saeed Jalili, a conservative member of the Expediency Council, at Amir Kabir University, at least nine students have…
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Late American scholar’s executor seeks opinion on burial
Ayatollah Khamenei The Chairman of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Kazem Mousavi Boroujerdi, has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader to ask his opinion on the…
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Bird poacher’s sentence is to study environment
The head of the Fars Province Department of Environmental Protection reports that an illegal hunter who was caught hunting birds in the Parishan Wetlands…
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Sanandaj forces arrest brother of executed prisoner, two others
Ezzat Golparipour, the brother of executed political prisoner Habibollah Golparipour, has been arrested by Sanandaj Security Forces along with two of their family acquaintances.…
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Labour activist ends jail strike after promise of relocation
Shahrokh Zamani Jailed Iranian labour activist Shahrokh Zamani finally ended his hunger strike on Monday April 14, after authorities agreed to his demand that…
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Mostafa Tajzadeh faces new charge
Mostafa Tajzadeh Mostafa Tajzadeh, a former deputy interior minister who became a prominent political prisoner following the 2009 election protests, will be put on…
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Kurdistan Province employees protest unpaid wages
Department of Environmental Protection A group of employees at the Environmental Protection Office of Kurdistan Province have staged protests against “unfair wages and benefits.”…

