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Tehran, 29 Sep - Amnesty International have criticized the Iranian Regime’s decision to jail a critically ill human rights advocate.
Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years in prison in May and this was upheld upon appeal.
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Tehran, 29 Sep - Reports have surfaced that conditions in a Southern Iranian prison are failing to meet even basic sanitary requirements.
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Tehran, 29 Sep - Iranian political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, is being put under increased pressure by the Iranian authorities according to recently released reports.
Akbari Monfared, who is held in the women’s ward in Evin Prison, was transferred to Ward 209 for interrogation in late September.
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Tehran, 29 Sep - On Wednesday, September 28, nine prisoners were hanged at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
This mass execution was carried out inside the prison and the charges are unknown.
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Tehran, 29 Sep - An Iranian math teacher took to social media to publish a damning letter about the harsh state of education in his region and across the country; asking how many children would have to die before the Iranian Regime would fix the problem.
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Washington, 29 Sep - A leading Iranian-American political scientist has written an op-ed for The World Post regarding the resolution by the US Congress to condemn the 1988 Iranian massacre of 30,000 political prisoners and call for justice.
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Tehran, 29 Sep - A former chancellor at Tehran University has called for justice for the political prisoners who were murdered by the Iranian Regime during the 1988 massacre.
Dr. Mohammad Maleki, who was the first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 revolution, made a speech calling for an international trial of the Iranian Regime, speaking of the injustice doled out in Iranian prisons and the hypocrisy of current Justice minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi.
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London, 28 Sep - Iranian university students have been protesting outside the Sharif University of Technology for three days straight, as of September, 27.
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London, 27 Sep - The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) quoted Shahin Gobadi of their Foreign Affairs Committee, in an article published on September 27.
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London, 27 Sep - On September 26, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) published an article about conditions facing political prisoners in Iran.
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London, 27 Sep - In their September 26 article, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reports that on Saturday, September 24, ISNA news agency quoted Shahindokht Molaverdi, the regime’s vice president, when she said that “three million two hundred thousand children are being hindered from education, among which girls are the main group.” She added, “According to the results of the Parliament’s Research Center, at the moment there are three million, two hundred thousand children in Iran who are being hindered from education.”
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London, 27 Sep - Express has reported that three members of the Christian faith are faced with public flogging after taking Holy Communion wine.
The three victims Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Mohammad Reza Omidi and Saheb Fadaie have been charged with allegations against the country’s national security. Although they were arrested back in May, a trial will decide only next week whether they will be publicly flogged.
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London, 27 Sep - Since the chilling bombings of the humanitarian convoy near Aleppo in Syria, prominent international political figures have expressed their concerns over the devastating forces that have swept across Syria, particularly those supported by Russia and Iran.
France 24 reported that General Ban Ki-moon (the UN Secretary) was “appalled by the chilling military escalation in the city of Aleppo, which is facing the most sustained and intense bombardment since the start of the Syrian conflict.” Talking via a spokesman, General Ban Ki-moon warned against using indiscriminate weapons systematically in areas that are highly populated in Syria, as these acts can quickly to lead to war crimes.
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London, 26 Sep - A prominent member of the non-profit organisation, the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) has written a scathing op-ed of President Obama’s dealing with Iran for conservative magazine, American Thinker.
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London, 26 Sep - A member of the United States House of Representatives has written an op-ed for Yellow Hammer, pleading for the US to no longer provide ransom to terrorists, specifically, the Iranian Regime.
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London, 26 Sep - Several European powers have spoken out against the violent and deadly attack on the aid convoy to Aleppo in Syria last week.
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London, 23 Sep - On Thursday, the UN welcomed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to speak before the General Assembly. In her September 23 article for the Toronto Sun, Candice Malcolm quotes former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as she writes that, the UN is a platform where “democratic leaders sit side by side with despots and dictators.”
Iran’s President Rouhani presents himself to democratic leaders not as a despot, but as a “moderate”, persuading the United States, and other countries to make the Nuclear Deal with him in 2015. Billions of dollars flooded into Iran, who used it to bankroll the Assad regime in Syria.
