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Iran police still holding 300 over Sunday protests

AFP: Iranian police said on Wednesday that they are still holding 300 of the 500 "rioters" they arrested at the weekend when opposition supporters...

Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death

AP: After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by...

Voices of Iranian rights activists are being heard: US

AFP: The United States said Friday that the voices of Iranian human rights activists are being heard, as it welcomed the adoption of a...

Amnesty condemns Iranian ‘rights abuses’

BBC: Human rights in Iran are as poor as at any time over the past 20 years, according to a report from campaign group...

Iran steps up its crackdown on student protesters

Washington Post: Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Tuesday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country's most prominent university and...

Mothers arrested before opposition rally in Iran

New York Times: Ahead of a planned opposition rally on Monday, Iran tightened security and arrested more than 20 mothers who were mourning children...

Iran’s death penalty is seen as a political tactic

New York Times: A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to...

In draft resolution, United Nations rebukes Iran for rights violations since election

New York Times: The United Nations criticized Iran on Friday for numerous human rights abuses in the wake of the disputed presidential election in...

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Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

Imprisoned student Amirhossein Moradi, responding to an offer by the Iranian regime’s judiciary to grant him a pardon, declared...

Record Number of Imprisoned Writers Worldwide. Iran Ranks Second with 53 Jailed Writers

PEN America announced in its latest annual report on the state of freedom of expression worldwide that the number...

IRGC Members Arrested in Kuwait, Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison in Bahrain for Cooperation with IRGC

As the Iranian regime continues its destabilizing activities against countries in the region, Kuwait announced the arrest of four...

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Tehran Responds to U.S. Proposal After Trump’s Threat

The state-run IRNA news agency reported on Sunday, May...

Iranian Regime Judiciary Confiscates Assets 40 More Individuals

The Iranian regime’s judiciary says that by judicial order,...

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