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Category: Latest News
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Plight of Jailed Activist on Hunger Strike Raised in Social Media
Over sixty days into a hunger strike, jailed labour activist Jafar Azimzadeh is reportedly in grave health condition.
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Human Rights Groups: a Kurdish Prisoner Is Dying inside an Iranian Prison without Medical Care
Fourteen Iranian human rights organizations in a joint statement have warned the public about the health and the medical condition of Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a…
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Drop in Iran’s fertility rate frustrates official policy goal
The head of Iran’s census department has announced that despite the overhaul of population-control policies, the fertility rate in the country is on the…
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Family argument over irrigation water proves fatal
A dispute over the distribution of water among a number of farms in Susa, Khuzestan has left one person dead and three injured. IRNA…
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More Iranian patients filed complaints against doctors last year
Mohsen Khalili, the head of the disciplinary branch of Iran’s Medical Council, reported this week that complaints against physicians rose by five percent last…
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Police bust private Tehran party, arrest actors
Seven Iranian actors were arrested at a party in Tehran, according to an Iranian media report. Mizan Khabar, the Iranian judiciary website, announced on…
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Jailed blogger released for medical reasons
Jailed Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was released on Wednesday May 4 from Evin Prison. Ronaghi Maleki was finally able to secure the approval…
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Mass arrest over election violence in Mamasani
Fars provincial authorities report that 57 people were arrested in connection with the violence that broke out on election day in the second round…
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Latest election results show reformists taking most seats
According to the latest reports, 42 more reformists found their way into the 10th Parliament in the second round of elections held on April…
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Random shooting in Mamasani closes poll an hour early
Hossein Zolfaqari, the deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s Security Department in the city of Mamasani in Fars Province, has announced that four people…
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Ministry rejects accusation of election meddling
After Gholamali Haddad Adel, the top conservative parliamentary candidate in Tehran, accused the administration of interfering in the election process, the interior ministry rejected…
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Teacher released from prison after serving extended sentence
Rasoul Bodaghi, a jailed teacher and a member of the Iranian Teachers’ Association, was released on Thursday April 29 after serving seven years in…