Interview with Dr. Mehrdad Darvishpour
Mon 30 Mar 2020Iran is facing a multi-faceted challenges that ignoring them would be considered wishful thinking.
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Iranian new year begins with a growing coronavirus crisis
Mon 23 Mar 2020Nowruz, or New Day, is the first day of the spring, and the first day of the Iranian New Year. It’s the time for turning over a new leaf and welcoming the season of bliss and blossoms into one’s spirit. But on the first day of this year’s spring, Iran is not in the news for any celebration. This year, the country’s name is synonymous with sadness as thousands contract COVID-19 and hundreds fall victim to it.
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My Life in Iran During Coronavirus
Mon 23 Mar 2020I came to Iran in April of last year. By now, my husband and I thought we’d be back home in the United States. But with Covid-19 ravaging the country and the rest of the world, our tickets have been canceled.
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Interview with Hajir Attari
Thu 19 Mar 2020Coronavirus is a global crisis but like everything else Iran’s response has been unique.
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Iran faces catastrophic death toll from coronavirus
Wed 18 Mar 2020Beyond China and Italy, Iran has been hardest hit by COVID-19 — but it could get a whole lot worse, thanks to a lack of international aid, government mismanagement and nobody knowing quite who's in charge.
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Sexual Torture in Iranian Prisons
Sat 14 Mar 2020The shocking story of Niloufar Bayani, an Iranian conservationist currently held in prison along with seven other environmental activists, has once again shed light on the use of sexual torture in Iran’s prisons. In her narrative about her ordeal, which was published on February 18 by BBC Persian, Bayani described the ways in which the security agency of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (the IRGC) had sexually harassed and threatened her during “at least 1200 hours of interrogations” to extract fabricated confessions.
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Coronavirus threat: Iran obliged by Iranian and international law to provide Nazanin and other detainees with medical treatment
Sat 14 Mar 2020In the light of reports of a possible outbreak of coronavirus in Evin Prison, and fears that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may have contracted the virus, REDRESS reiterates Iran’s legal obligations to provide Nazanin and all other detainees with appropriate and timely medical treatment.
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Urgent Call for the Freedom of Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof facing Incerceration in Iran
Sat 14 Mar 2020The European Film Academy, The Cannes Film Festival, the Deutsche Filmakademie, the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Filmfest Hamburg, the IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Film Fund and the Accademia del cinema italiano-Premi David di Donatello wish to express their deepest concern about the imminent incarceration of the Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof.
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Iran: Free Wrongfully Detained Prisoners
Fri 13 Mar 2020Iran’s prison authorities should facilitate temporary release of all eligible prisoners and the unconditional release of people detained for peaceful dissent, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Human Rights watch said today.
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Inspiring women – An Irishwoman’s Diary on International Women’s Day
Mon 09 Mar 2020I was 10 years old when my teenage brother defied me to “name one famous woman writer or artist”. I wept angry tears, and began drawing up a mental list of inspiring women.
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