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Tag: Mashhad
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Arrests at Alikordi’s Funeral: When Mourning Becomes a Security Case
Security forces violently disrupted Khosro Alikordi’s memorial in Mashhad, arresting dozens including prominent activists, as mourning was reframed as “disorder” and justice-seeking treated as…
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“He Never Stopped Defending Us”: The Suspicious Death of Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi dies suddenly after sustained state pressure, prompting prison protests, a nationwide lawyers’ statement, and scrutiny of Iran’s war on…
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What Goes on Inside Vakilabad Prison’s Nursery Ward in Mashhad?
In this report, which continues the series of reports on the situation of children and mothers in Iranian prisons, the conditions of children, their…
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I Have an Iranian Heart with a Dutch Mind – In Conversation with Eline Farideh Koning
When she was only one and a half years old, she was adopted by a Dutch family from an infant nursery in Tehran and…
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Green, Black and Red: The Story of a Failed Movement
The tenth Iranian presidential election in 2009 was different from previous elections. Four candidates were competing: incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, conservative Mohsen Rezaei, reformist…
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Two organisers arrested in Mashhad-Iran for arranging a youth gathering
Two generation Z Iranians have been arrested in the northeastern city of Mashhad for organising a youth gathering near a shopping centre.
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Second-largest city suffers unprecedented air pollution
The sudden increase in the volume of air pollutants in the city of Mashhad on Thursday October 8 put the country’s second-largest city on…
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Planned protests against nuclear negotiations declared illegal
Demonstrations in the works by opponents of the nuclear negotiations in Mashhad have been declared illegal by the Khorasan Razavi governor. Massoud Mahalati told…
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Dozens arrested during annual festivities in Mashhad
The Mashhad police chief says 60 arrests were made on Tuesday March 18 during Chaharshanbeh Souri events. The Iranian tradition of Chaharshanbeh Souri is…
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Artists call for return of music concerts to Mashhad
A group of artists and musicians has written to the Governor of Khorasan Razavi, calling on him to cancel the ban placed on all…
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Mashhad Imam comments on concert controversy
Mashhad’s Friday Mass Imam says he has little against music but added that since Mashhad is the site of the shrine of the eighth…