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IRAN : UN special rapporteur urged to visit Iranian prisons holding journalists

Sat 22 Aug 2020

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran to inspect the country’s prisons as soon as possible, now that the revelation of a cover-up of coronavirus deaths in Iran has increased concern about the degree to which prisoners of conscience, including journalists, are exposed to the virus in its over-crowded jails. The BBC’s Persian service revealed on 3 August that leaked Iranian government data showed that the real death toll from Covid-19 in Iran was nearly 42,000 – three times the figure of 14,400 that the Iranian health ministry gave on 20 July.

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MEPs demand Iranian authorities to listen to Nasrin Sotoudeh who puts her life at risk to save political prisoners

Wed 19 Aug 2020

Heidi Hautala, Vice President in charge of Democracy, Human Rights and the Sakharov Community, and Maria Arena, Chair of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights issued the following statement on Nasrin Sotoudeh's renewed hunger strike and increased pressure on her family:

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Authoritarian Survival: Iran's Republic of Repression

Wed 12 Aug 2020

In 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran marked its fortieth anniversary in power. It proudly staged ceremonies to commemorate this milestone, but before the year was out it would face widespread, bitter protests of a sort that have become familiar, denying its legitimacy and demanding an end to undemocratic rule by Shia Muslim clerics. The early months of 2020 brought the regime more high-profile troubles. These included the accidental shootdown of a civilian airliner and now encompass Iranian society's suffering as part of the covid-19 pandemic—a suffering that has grown worse even as top officials have refused to acknowledge the true extent and severity of what the disease has wrought for the people of Iran.

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Amnesty International Responds

Sat 08 Aug 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran has continued to threaten the health and safety of imprisoned human rights defenders, like Nasrin Sotoudeh and Yasaman Aryani, in the country’s overcrowded and unhygienic prisons.

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The story of Iran, a murdered hacker and me

Wed 05 Aug 2020

His tone was frantic. He was scared and paranoid, deleting his WhatsApp messages as soon as I had read them. Masoud Molavi Vardanjani wanted to speak to someone “in Washington”. I was cautious, too. I am just a journalist, I insisted. Who would I know “in Washington”? And how can I even be sure it’s you, I asked, and not some Iranian regime operative up to some trickery?

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MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

Tue 04 Aug 2020

The hidden role of a British secret service officer who led the coup that permanently altered the Middle East is to be revealed for the first time since an Observer news story was suppressed in 1985.

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Iran: decades of unsustainable water use has dried up lakes and caused environmental destruction

Tue 04 Aug 2020

Salt storms are an emerging threat for millions of people in north-western Iran, thanks to the catastrophe of Lake Urmia. Once one of the world’s largest salt lakes, and still the country’s largest lake, Urmia is now barely a tenth of its former size.

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Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons

Mon 03 Aug 2020

Leaked official letters newly obtained by Amnesty International reveal that the Iranian government has ignored repeated pleas by senior officials responsible for managing Iran’s prisons for additional resources to control the spread of COVID-19 and treat infected prisoners.

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Let Narges Mohammadi Call her Children

Sun 26 Jul 2020

Iranian WHRD Narges Mohammadi who has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison, because of her human rights activities, has been denied telephone contact with her teenage children for almost a year. Narges' children, Kiana and Ali, who live in Exile in France with their father, released a video lamenting the fact that they have not spoken to their mother for 11 months. They asked Iranians to be their voice, so Narges is allowed to call her children.

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To Secure His Legacy, Khamenei Is Packing Iran’s Government With Young Radicals

Sat 25 Jul 2020

The supreme leader’s youth-washing strategy could keep detente with the United States off the table for years. In just under a year, Iran will elect a new president. Coming after the U.S. election this November, there is some hope that the occasion could usher in improved U.S.-Iranian relations. Yet, given the way Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been narrowing the field of candidates, that seems unlikely.

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IRAN : UN special rapporteur urged to visit Iranian prisons holding journalists

MEPs demand Iranian authorities to listen to Nasrin Sotoudeh who puts her life at risk to save political prisoners

Authoritarian Survival: Iran's Republic of Repression

Amnesty International Responds

The story of Iran, a murdered hacker and me

MI6, the coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

Iran: decades of unsustainable water use has dried up lakes and caused environmental destruction

Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons

Let Narges Mohammadi Call her Children

To Secure His Legacy, Khamenei Is Packing Iran’s Government With Young Radicals

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