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Officials in Iran have arrested a prominent lawyer at the funeral of a teenage girl who died during an incident on the Tehran metro involving the country's morality police. Human right defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was taken in by authorities during the burial of 17-year-old Armita Garavand.

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Iranian authorities are harassing and intimidating the families of those killed by security forces during the nationwide protests which followed Mahsa Amini's death in police custody as the anniversary of the unrest approaches, Amnesty International has said. A new 42-page report, Iran: Harassment o

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Iran is to execute a 35-year-old mentally ill man on charges including apostasy and “insulting holy things”. Javad Rouhi, a law graduate, is accused of burning the Quran as part of the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

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Human rights campaigners have called for the release of lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple convictions for his defence of basic civil and political liberties. Lawyers for Lawyers, an independent and non-political Netherlands-based foundation and the Center

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The Iranian authorities carried out a "shameless" campaign of repression during 2018, crushing protests and arresting thousands in a wide-scale crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty International. The organization has today revealed new figures showing the extent of the Iranian authorities’ repre

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