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Category: Human Rights
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Back to Campus, Back to Protest: A New Student Wave After the January Uprising
As campuses reopened, students launched sit-ins, memorial assemblies, and anti-regime chants—met by Basij-led disruption, arrests, mass summons, and a rapid push to move classes…
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Reza Pahlavi’s Emergency Blueprint: A Transition Plan—or a Survival Manual for the Islamic Republic’s Power Networks?
A critique of Reza Pahlavi’s emergency blueprint warns that prioritizing technocratic stability and integrating former IRGC specialists could reproduce old power networks and derail…
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Day 46 After the Protests Began: 7,002 Dead, Repression Expands from Streets to Courts
HRANA reports 7,002 confirmed deaths by day 46; arrests and injuries climb, release is coerced, and child-rights activists demand remembrance and accountability for killed…
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The Engineering of Terror: Executions, Sexual Torture, Enforced Disappearance
After the January massacre, the Islamic Republic accelerated executions, mass arrests, and systematic torture—including sexual violence—into a governing strategy designed to instill terror. The…
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Summoned, Detained, Beaten: A 21-Year-Old Rapper’s Testimony From Inside Iran
A 21-year-old rapper from Astara recounts being summoned, detained, beaten, and pressured to sign forced confessions after joining the January nationwide protests. A young…
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Iran’s January Uprising: Mass Killings, Child Deaths, and a Deepening Detention Crisis
Rights monitors report thousands killed and tens of thousands arrested in Iran’s January uprising, including over 160 children, amid forced confessions, medical intimidation, and…
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Chemical and Pharmaceutical Weapons Used Against Protests in Iran?
Witness reports and research records suggest Iran may have used incapacitating chemical and drug-based agents alongside live fire in January 2026 protests, though independent…
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Gunpowder in the Body’s Memory: A narrative from inside Iran
Two firsthand accounts—from an unnamed city and from Shiraz—describe nights of gunfire and drones, street encirclement and arrests, a near-total communications blackout, and deepening…
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When the Internet Goes Dark, We Go on Air
During Iran’s total communications blackout after the January 8 massacre, Radio Zamaneh returned to shortwave and satellite broadcasts to break isolation and deliver independent…
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Iran’s January 2026 Crackdown: Disputed Death Tolls, a Prolonged Internet Blackout, and Escalating Repression
Conflicting death and arrest figures, testimony of indiscriminate and targeted shooting, allegations of extortion for bodies, and a prolonged internet blackout point to a…
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“Syriaization” as a Weapon: How Tehran Justifies Mass Killing
By warning of “Syriaization,” authorities shift blame to protesters, normalize unlimited force, and recycle the Syrian playbook: dehumanization, impunity, and violence framed as necessity.…
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Digital Siege: How Iran’s Internet Blackout Works—and Why This Time Looks Different
As protests surged nationwide, Iran’s blackout cut people off from the world, disrupted daily life, and strengthened repression by blocking coordination, evidence, and outside…