23 Jan 2022 - In retaliation to and out of fear of growing public dissent, the regime has executed 6 prisoners both Wednesday 19th January 2022 and Thursday 20th January 2022. In addition to this, there were 45 executions in December 2021. The clerical regime’s criminal record must be referred to the UN Security Council, and its leaders, especially Khamenei, Raisi, and the Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i must be brought to justice for four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Flight PS752: The lives and hopes that perished
It has been 2 years since flight PS752 was shot down by the IRGC’s missiles just 6 minutes after taking off from Tehran towards Ukraine, killing all 167 passengers onboard. The families of passengers on the Ukrainian flight PS752 gathered at Tehran’s Airport and the crash site on Saturday, January 8, 2022, demanding justice.
Jailed Iranian writer Baktash Abtin dies after contracting COVID
Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin, who had been jailed on security charges, has passed away in a hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in detention. Abtin was a joint winner of the 2021 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. The 48-year-old was transferred to a hospital from the Evin Prison in mid-December and was placed in a medically induced coma a week before his death in an attempt to help him recover from a severe case of the coronavirus. Rights groups claimed authorities wasted time in offering him medical assistance when he first started showing symptoms of the disease more than a month ago.
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