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No Birth Certificates and Deadly Roads: The Fate of Baloch Children
Systemic denial of identity papers forces Baloch children into hazardous seasonal labour, deadly transport, and school dropout—entrenching intergenerational poverty amid weak protections and discriminatory…
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Caspian Landgrabbing: Turning Rice Paddies into Villas
Mazandaran officials approved a deal swapping waste services for land reclassification, pulling 60+ hectares of rice paddies into village limits for villas, sidestepping legal…
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Master of Iran’s New Wave Cinema, Nasser Taghvai, Dies at 84
His work made the margins central—oil towns, workers, and those crushed by the 1953 coup—turning southern geography and post-coup disillusion into lucid, literary, defiant…
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1,500 Death-Row Prisoners Go on Mass Strike as Executions Surge
About 1,500 death-row inmates in Ghezel Hesar Prison launched a hunger strike against mass executions, declaring: “Our patience has run out from this endless…
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Largest Campus Protest in Two Years: Khajeh Nasir Students Rally in Tehran
Khajeh Nasir students staged a rally against securitization and welfare cuts, demanding restored shuttles, affordable meals, better dorms, and an end to expulsions and…
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Balochistan on Edge: Border Closures and Fuel-Carrying Crackdown Ignite Deadly Protests
Strikes shuttered markets across eastern Sistan and Balochistan as residents protested border closures and a fuel-carrying crackdown. At least 18 killed in October; demands…
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Slow Death in Qarchak Prison: The Medical Neglect That Killed the Political Prisoner Somayeh Rashidi
Political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi, 42, died in Qarchak Prison after months of denied medical care. Her death highlights systemic neglect in Iran’s prisons, long…
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Systematic Exclusion: How Iran Is Denying Afghan Children the Right to Education
As Iranian classrooms reopen for a new school year, tens of thousands of Afghan children are missing—barred by new regulations, shuttered community schools, and…
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Iran Passes Bylaw Expanding Censorship with Tiered Internet Policy
On July 16, 2025, Iran approved a new bylaw creating a tiered internet system, granting unrestricted access to select users with political or institutional…
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Re-reading Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik writer
A question often posed by non-Tajik readers and scholars is: Why read Bahmanyar? Some may even ask, who is Bahmanyar? Bahmanyar, a prominent Tajik…
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Complicity and Active Resistance in the Jina Mahsa Revolution: Through the Lens of Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof’s *The Seed of Sacred Fig* is a feminist exploration of the Jina Mahsa Revolution, challenging male-dominated narratives of revolution. It highlights the…
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Fariba Nawa Uncovers Threats to Iranian Dissidents in Turkey
In Lethal Dissent, journalist Fariba Nawa reveals the dangers Iranian dissidents face in Turkey after the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom movement. Despite fleeing the…