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• Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

  Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families
  January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, firing and threatening the families of detained and killed protesters to force them to remain silent, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
  “In addition to hanging, shooting, and imprisoning Iranians to crush the protests, Islamic Republic authorities are (...)

• Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

  Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides”
  Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials
  January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of recently released detained protesters, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today, which Iranian authorities have labelled “suicides” despite significant evidence indicating otherwise.
  “We are seeing a number of (...)

• Iran’s Protests Are Nowhere Near Revolutionary

  Many say the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement will threaten the regime this year. They’re wrong.
  By Sajjad Safaei, a postdoc fellow at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
  January 17, 2023, 6:58 AM, FP
  Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests—both the direct disruptions they have imposed on national life and the tensions they have created among the country’s ruling elites—have prompted many to wonder whether the Islamic Republic may be on the brink this year of a full-scale (...)

• Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran

  Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed
  EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors
  January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the Iranian government’s hanging of protesters and killing of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators in the streets, and join the growing number of countries that have summoned Iran’s diplomats to directly express their outrage over the (...)

• Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys...

  Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September
  Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters
  Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers
  January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, it has also been arresting defense attorneys—at least 44 since September—to block their ability to seek justice for arbitrarily arrested activists and street protesters, according to research by the Center (...)

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