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Nationwide Anti-Government Uprising Over Water Shortages
As summer temperatures soared in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, water shortages became a pronounced crisis, sparking mass protests in a number of cities and towns including Ahvaz, Khorramshahr, Hamidiyeh, and Mahshahr. The first such demonstrations were recorded on July 15, and these helped to establish the messaging that would…
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Iran: Protests in Different Sectors Continue Across the Country
3rd July 2021 – Graduate teachers held a rally in front of the education ministry, protesting the unemployment conditions. The teachers were chanting, “We have science degrees, what we don’t have are jobs,” “Our demand is employment,” and “We will not leave until we get our rights.” These teachers have…
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Brother of Navid Afkari Writes Letter Detailing Harrowing Arrest and Torture in Regime’s Prisons
26 June 2021 – In a 45-page report, Amnesty International has analyzed a letter written by prisoner of conscience, Habib Afkari, brother of Navid Afkari (champion wrestler executed by the regime for his participation in the nationwide peaceful protests in 2019), and Vahid Afkari also currently in prison. Habib’s letter…
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International Panel Discuss the Outcome of Ebrahim Raisi’s Installment as Iran’s President
24th June 2021 – In an online conference by Iranian activists and witnesses to the 1988 massacre, human rights experts and jurists weighed in on the implications of Ebrahim Raisi becoming the Iranian regime’s president, and the role that the international community must play to hold the regime’s authorities to…
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Amnesty International Raises Concerns Over Ebrahim Raisi’s Role As the Regime’s New President
19th June 2021 – Amnesty International’s Secretary-General, Agnes Callamard, expressed her condemnation of the installation of Ebrahim Raisi as the regime’s president following the sham election which took place on 18th June in Iran. She said in a statement: “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being…
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Political Prisoner Atena Daemi Refuses Regime’s Offer of Amnesty
Political prisoner Atena Daemi sent a message out of Lakan Prison of Rasht rejecting the regime’s offer to her to ask for an amnesty. Defying the regime’s gesture, she said, “I believe that unconditional release is the right of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.” Mr. Hossein Daemi, the father…
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Mothers of the Martyrs of the 2019 Uprisings in Iran Call for a Boycott of Upcoming Sham Elections
Mothers of the martyred protesters of the 2019 uprisings in Iran have joined together to campaign for the boycott of the June 18 sham elections in Iran. The mothers recorded a video in order to tell the people not to vote for the regime which so cruelly took the lives…
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More than 150 Ex-UN Officials & human rights experts call for investigation of 1988 massacre
In an open letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, more than 150 former UN officials and human rights experts called for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the 1988 mass extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances in Iran. The letter reiterates the devastating impact that…
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Iran: Regime Tries To Destroy Mass Gravesite To Cover Up Crimes Against Humanity
According to recent reports, the Iranian regime is on the verge of implementing plans to destroy the sites of mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery. The plans are part of a much larger pattern whereby the Iranian regime has been destroying evidence of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners that took…
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AWYAF Condemns UN Election Of Iran To Women’s Commission
On April 19th, in a shameful act, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) elected Iran as its member for a four-year term from 2022 until 2026. The secret vote by the UN’s Economic and Social Council sparked outrage among human rights activists.