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Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran

The Independent: A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only...

Teenage sex slave sentenced to death

Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to...

Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F

Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, “Leyla M”, who has a mental age of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for “morality-related” offences after being...

Iran government voices concern over journalist ‘confessions’

AFP: Iran's reformist government admitted Monday that it was concerned over how the hardline judiciary managed to exact written apologies and confessions from several...

Iran Human Rights Conference, Exhibition in Paris Draws Crowds

Iran Focus: Paris, Dec. 11 – A three-day exhibition of a quarter-century of human rights violations in Iran, sponsored by over 30 European...

Iranian woman journalist freed on bail, hospitalised

AFP: An Iranian woman arrested in a judicial crackdown on reformist journalists was freed on bail but needed hospital treatment due to her detention,...

‘I was tortured for saying the flogging must end in Iran’

The Independent: The treatment of Arash Nassouri was brutal. "They hung me upside down and handcuffed me with a bar under my knees," he...

Persecution Of Baha’is Continues In Iran

Radio Free Europe: Baha'is are Iran's largest religious minority, but their faith is not recognized in the country's constitution and they have long faced...

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Political Prisoner Denied Treatment in Greater Tehran Prison

The physical condition of Hamid Haj-Jafar Kashani, a political prisoner held in Tehran Great Prison, has reportedly become concerned...

Iran’s Regime Cuts Food Voucher Benefits Under ‘Overseas Resident’ Label

In its latest move against low-income segments of society, the Iranian regime has suspended food voucher benefits for a...

Canada Sanctions Five Political and Military Officials of the Iranian Regime

The Canadian government announced on Friday, August 14, that it had imposed sanctions on five military and political officials...

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Advisor to IRGC Commander: Our Doctrine Has Changed from Defensive to Offensive

Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, adviser to the commander-in-chief of the Islamic...

Purchasing Power of Iranian Workers at Very Low Levels

The livelihood situation of workers in Iran has entered...

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