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Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike

Iran Focus London, 9 May - A number of political prisoners are on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Jafar Azimzadeh, a worker’s rights...

Iran political prisoner denounces abuses

Iran Focus London, 8 May - A prominent Iranian political activist, and prisoner, Saleh Kohandel will no longer be accepting visits due to the...

Iran set to blind man next week as punishment

Iran Focus London, 5 May - Iran is set to fully blind a man with acid next week under brutal retributive eye-for-an-eye laws. Mojtaba...

UN experts worried about health of Iran’s political prisoners

Iran Focus London, 30 Apr - Human rights experts from the United Nations have issued a warning over the fate of more than a...

Rate of executions rising in Iran

Iran Focus London, 30 Apr - The UK Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has said that the rate of...

Iran sentences journalists to prison time

Iran Focus London, 29 Apr - Four Iranian journalists and media workers received a cumulative total of 27 years jail time. David Asadi was...

Imprisoned teacher goes on hunger strike in Iran

Iran Focus Tehran, 24 Apr - According to reports from inside Iran, imprisoned teacher Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, a former secretary general and current speaker...

Iran arrests relatives of MEK dissidents in Tehran  

Iran Focus Tehran, 23 Apr - Two family members of members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI or...

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Four Decades of Bitter Narratives: May Day as a Day of Wrath, Not Celebration, for Iran’s Workers

Does International Workers’ Day represent a celebration of dignity and status for Iran’s labor force? Do they gather in...

Iran Intensifies Pressure on Families of PMOI Prisoners Amid Expanding Crackdown

Iranian authorities have intensified pressure on the families of political prisoners and executed dissidents in recent weeks, with multiple...

Iran: A Dangerous Country for Journalists

According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the state of press freedom worldwide has fallen to its lowest level in...

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Iran’s Regime Executes Baluch Political Prisoner Amer Ramesh

The Iranian regime, continuing its daily extrajudicial executions, executed...

UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

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