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FCO condemns co-ordinated arrest of journalists in Iran

FCO: Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt condemns multiple arrests of journalists in Iran for co-operation with western media. Iranian security forces arrested more...

EU condemns death sentences in Iran for five Arabs

AFP: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday urged Iran to commute death sentences against five members of the Ahwazi Arab ...

Iran unveils new finger-amputating machine

The Independent: Iran unveils new finger-amputating machine ahead of announcement of increasingly severe punishment of thieves. Photographs published by Iran’s official press agency show...

Iran arrests 11 reporters over ‘foreign contacts’

AP: Iran has arrested 11 journalists accused of cooperation with foreign-based, Persian-language media organizations, several chief editors of Iranian outlets said Monday....

U.S. condemns sentencing of American pastor in Iran

Reuters: The U.S. State Department on Sunday condemned an Iranian court for sentencing an Iranian-American Christian pastor to eight years in prison....

Iran sentences US Christian to eight years: group

AFP: A Tehran court on Sunday sentenced an Iranian-American pastor to eight years in prison over his role in underground churches in the...

Christian pastor held in Iran missing from jail, says family

Fox News: Iranian jailers turned away the family of an American pastor on trial Iran for his Christian family, telling them Saeed...

Iran’s Evin prison: Jail or ‘hotel’?

BBC: Last month, 20 prisoners wrote an open letter to the head of the prison in which they criticised him for allegedly not...

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Targeted Repression of Iranian Women, From Mass Arrests to Death Sentences

Women in Iran have faced a wave of widespread arrests and targeted repression; a wave that indicates a planned...

Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar’s Final Letter Offers a Personal Account from Iran’s Death Row

Iran’s regime tries to shut the voice of dissidents through brutal executions. But in the case of Ali Akbar...

Iranian Political Prisoner Mohammad Abbasi Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

In the early hours of Wednesday, May 13, the judiciary of the Iranian regime executed Mohammad Abbasi, a 55-year-old...

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Increasing Pressure on Female Political Prisoners in Iran’s Evin Prison

Reports indicate increasing pressure and restrictions against female political...

Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

Imprisoned student Amirhossein Moradi, responding to an offer by...

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