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5,000 Contract Workers Participate in Largest Union Protest in Iran in Recent Years

At least five thousand contract workers in twelve South Pars refineries went on strike and gathered in Asaluyeh in the largest labor protest in...

Suspicious Death of Lawyer Representing Protesters in Iran

The brother of Khosro Alikordi, the deceased attorney, announced that security forces of Iran’s regime have confiscated all sixteen surveillance cameras from his brother’s...

Reporters Without Borders: Iran Is Seventh-Largest Global Jailer of Journalists

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows that Iran, with twenty-one imprisoned journalists and one disappeared, is among the countries with the...

98th Week of the “No To Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in 55 Prisons Across Iran

The 98th week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has continued in fifty-five prisons across Iran with a hunger strike by participating prisoners. The...

Stocks of Hundreds of Medicines in Iran Have Fallen Below Three Months

Iranian pharmaceutical officials, warning of an escalating medicine shortage crisis, have stated that stocks of hundreds of medicines in the country have fallen to...

Iran: 24 Executions in Two Days

Human-rights media outlets reported the execution of at least twenty-four prisoners in Iranian prisons over a two-day period. These numbers show that in just...

Message by Imprisoned Iranian Student Ehsan Faridi: Freedom cannot be imposed from outside

Ehsan Faridi, a twenty-two-year-old student of Manufacturing Engineering at the Technical Faculty of the University of Tabriz — who has been sentenced to death...

Iran’s Student Movement Cannot Be Silenced: Voices Rise Again on Student Day

Coinciding with Student Day on December 7, student and labor activists in Iran emphasized that the student movement cannot be silenced and stressed the...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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