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Tag: Ethnic Minorities
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Gross Human Rights Violations at the Andirgan Gold Mine: Direct Fire on Protesters
Andirgan is not an isolated episode; it exposes the Islamic Republic’s structural securitization of social, economic, and environmental demands—especially intensified in ethnic regions like…
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The Shadow of Civil War Over Iran
Amid fears of a renewed Israel-Iran conflict, another danger is quietly looming: the risk of Iran sliding into civil war. Such wars rarely erupt…
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Kurdish Cities in Iran Hold Strike to Protest Death Sentences of Two Female Political Prisoners
Kurdish cities across Iran have gone on strike in response to the death sentences of two Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi. The…
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Rights Groups are Concerned as more Arrests are Allegedly Linked to ISIS in Iran
An official with Mashhad Judiciary in Iran says that the recent arrests of 27 individual in Iran are linked to “ISIS terrorists”
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Top Professor in Iran Sentenced to Imprisonment and Flogging
A highly regarded professor in Zabol University in southeastern Iran has been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging for posting protests against university administration on…
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Kaboodvand, Jailed rights activist on hunger strike close to death
Mohammad Sedigh Kaboodvand jailed Iranian journalist and activist is approaching 30 days on hunger strike and doctors have been trying to prevent him from…