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#SaveToomaj: Iran urged to spare rapper after 'grotesque' verdict

Iranian authorities on Thursday faced pressure to release and clear a prominent rapper sentenced to death in a verdict supporters say is merely...

25.04.2024 9

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Israel's strike on Iran: limited hit, major message

Israel's apparent strike on Iran was deliberately limited in scope but sent a clear warning to the country's leadership about Israeli abilities to...

23.04.2024 20

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'War against women': Iran ramps up crackdown as regional tensions rage

Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is stepping up repression...

21.04.2024 8

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In Iran, Bahai minority faces persecution even after death

A flattened patch of earth is all that remains of where the graves once stood –- evidence, Iran's Bahais say, that their community is subjected to...

22.03.2024 3

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Iran executions highest since 2015: rights groups

Iran executed at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015, as capital punishment in the Islamic republic surged to a "staggering"...

05.03.2024 1

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Iran executed 834 people last year, highest since 2015: rights groups

Iran executed a "staggering" total of at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015 as capital punishment surged in the Islamic...

05.03.2024 3

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Iran hangs four Kurds on Israel spying charges

Iran on Monday hanged four members of its Kurdish minority on charges of spying for Israel, defying a campaign for their lives to be spared by rights...

29.01.2024 5

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Activists decry 'glaring injustice' of Iran protester's execution

The execution of the ninth man to be hanged over protests that swept Iran in 2022 marks a new stage in Tehran's rampant use of the death penalty,...

24.01.2024 8

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Baluchistan, explosive region on Iran-Pakistan borderland

Baluchistan is a restive region shared by Iran and Pakistan where security forces on both sides of the border have for years battled militant groups...

18.01.2024 3

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Iran releases rights lawyer Sotoudeh: husband

Iranian authorities on Wednesday released the prize-winning rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh after she spent more than two weeks in prison, her husband...

15.11.2023 4

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Jailed Iranian Nobel winner begins hunger strike: family

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other...

06.11.2023 3

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Life of German jailed in Iran 'at grave risk' over failing health: daughter

A German citizen abducted in Dubai and sentenced to death by Iran is almost unable to walk and talk due to health conditions that prison authorities...

05.11.2023 7

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Lawyer arrest fuels outrage over Iran teen's death

The arrest of a prize-winning Iranian rights lawyer has compounded the anger expressed by rights groups over the death of a teenage girl who activists...

31.10.2023 5

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French-Iranian academic held in Iran since 2019 back in France

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has returned to France, her university said Wednesday, after being held for four-and-a-half years in Iran in a...

18.10.2023 2

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Iran stops family marking Mahsa Amini death anniversary: rights groups

Iranian authorities on Saturday prevented the family of Mahsa Amini from holding a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of her death,...

16.09.2023 5

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Iran thwarts commemoration of Mahsa Amini death: rights groups

Iranian authorities on Saturday prevented the family of Mahsa Amini from holding a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of her death,...

16.09.2023 6

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Iran thwarts Mahsa Amini family from commemorating death anniversary: groups

Iranian authorities on Saturday prevented the family of Mahsa Amini from holding a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of her death,...

16.09.2023 6

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Clampdown and grief as Iranians remember Mahsa Amini

Iranians at home and abroad marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with activists speaking of a renewed...

16.09.2023 1

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The Iranian women paying price for reporting on Mahsa Amini

Iranian authorities have since the death of Mahsa Amini systematically persecuted the journalists, often young women, who helped expose the case and...

13.09.2023 2

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Iran exiles' fragile unity fractured, a year after Amini protests

A coalition of exiled opposition Iranian groups and figures formed as protests challenged the authorities has collapsed, leaving diaspora...

12.09.2023 2

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