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• Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

  Fears for 73-Year-Old Grow After Two Political Prisoners Die in First Week of 2022
  Iran’s Judicial and Prison Officials Commit Rights Violations and Crimes with Impunity
  January 11, 2022 – The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems.
  “We’re seeing a pattern of political (...)

• Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022

  January 8, 2021 – The death of Iranian poet Baktash Abtin today in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in Evin Prison is the result of the Iranian judiciary chief’s inhumane treatment of prisoners and the government’s refusal to hold responsible officials accountable.
  Abtin, who died after being put into an induced coma while hospitalized, is the second known political prisoner to die in Iran in the first week of 2022. On January 1, Kian Adelpour died after going on hunger strike to protest (...)

• Families Call for Independent UN Investigation

  January 6, 2022 – While commemorating the second anniversary of the killing of 176 people aboard Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on the Iranian government to allow people to mourn their lost loved ones and to demand justice without interference.
  The passenger plane was shot down minutes after it took off from Tehran International Airport on January 8, 2020, struck by (...)

• ‘Health Defenders’ Jailed in Iran Wanted to Sue Supreme Leader Over Covid

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/world/middleeast/iran-covid-trial-khamenei.html
  By Farnaz Fassihi
  Dec. 17, 2021
  Two Iranian lawyers and a civil rights activist were among a group organizing a legal challenge to Iran’s top leader and the government over their disastrous handling of the pandemic.
  But before they could even file their complaint, they were seized and incarcerated.
  Now known on Iranian social media as “the health defenders,” their case has attracted widespread attention, (...)

• Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

  Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence
  November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was detained on the anniversary of the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests and could be flogged and serve a 30-month prison term if the international community remains silent, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today.
  “By arresting Narges on the anniversary of these historic protests, Iran’s brutal security (...)

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