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Category: Human Rights
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Iran After the January Uprising: Grief, War Anxiety, and the Battle for a Post–Islamic Republic Future
After January’s massacre, mourning and war panic mingle with intensifying silencing and diaspora disputes, as Iranians argue over how to resist—and what comes after…
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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.…