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Iran drives number of imprisoned journalists worldwide to record high

Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday.

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Iran Pushes Global List of Imprisoned Journalists to Record High

Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday. The figure is up from 488 in 2021, already a record, according to the France-based NGO.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran sentences 400 people to jail terms of up to 10 years over protests

Figures from Tehran province indicate extent of clampdown on protests sparked by killing of Mahsa Amini

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Iran player 'faces execution' after protests as football union "shocked" and "sickened"

Iranian footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani is reportedly facing execution after campaigning for women's rights and basic freedom and FIFPRO has released a statement in response

Daily Mirror

Iran carries out second execution linked to nationwide protests

Majidreza Rahnavard accused of fatally stabbing security force members early in protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody

The Guardian - UK

Second Iranian executed over alleged crime of protesting against the regime

An Iranian protestor was publicly hanged on Monday in the city of Mashhad, less than a week after the first protestor was executed marking a brutal crackdown in the country

Daily Mirror

Rights Group: More Iranians at Imminent Risk of Execution

Rights groups warned Sunday that several protesters in Iran are at imminent risk of execution, following an international backlash against the clerical regime's first hanging linked to ongoing demonstrations. The almost three-month-old protest movement was sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian arrested by the morality…

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Iran carries out second execution linked to anti-regime protests

Iran on Monday executed a second prisoner detained and convicted amid nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, airing footage on state television it claimed shows him stabbing two security force members to death and running away.

France 24

Iran accuses Australia of promoting violence and hatred for sanctions over human rights violations, supplying Russia drones for Ukraine war

Iran lashes out at Australia after Penny Wong imposed sanctions for "egregious human rights violations and abuses" over the crackdown against anti-government protesters and the supply of drones to Russia for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

ABC News

Australia Imposes Sanctions on Iran, Russia over Protests Crackdown

Australia's foreign minister said on Saturday the government would place targeted sanctions on Russia and Iran in response to what it called "egregious" human rights violations. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement Australia was imposing sanctions on 13 individuals and two entities, including Iran’s Morality Police and Basij…

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The women of Iran's revolution describe being inside a protest and running for their lives

Fearing for their lives, but resolute in their cause, the women and girls of Iran defy their oppressors and work around their crushing rule to spread the word of the rebellion.

ABC News

Iranian security forces target women at protests 'shooting breasts and genitals'

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Doctors and nurses have that women have been arriving in hospitals in Iran with different wounds to men and had been presenting with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals

Daily Mirror

What are Iran's morality police? A scholar of the Middle East explains their history

Until recently, most people outside of Iran had never heard of the country’s morality police, let alone followed their wider role in the region. But on Sept. 16, 2022, the death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked widespread protests in the streets of Iran and elsewhere that have shown no signs…

The Conversation

Sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader pens open letter condemning 'despotic' caliphate

Badri Hosseini Khamenei said she has cut ties with her brother and that she expresses sympathy with everyone mourning the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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The Guardian - UK

Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say

Exclusive: Men and women coming in with shotgun wounds to different parts of bodies, doctors say

Evening Standard

Iran carries out ‘first execution’ over anti-Government protests

Iran has carried out the first execution of a protester convicted following the anti-Government protests in the state.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Policing morality in Iran: Potential abolition of Tehran’s hated morality police is not freedom

Add to the chaotic nature of street protests and heavy-handed government response that have overtaken Iran is the confusion now over if the country will be rid of its oppressive morality police. The enforcers of the ruling mullahs’ concept of public piety first set the demonstrations in motion when 22-year-old…

France 24

Iran executes first Mahsa Amini protester as fears grow for other detainees

Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country's ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran.

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Iran Executes Protester for Injuring Guard with Knife

Iran executed a protester on Thursday who was convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and closing off a street in the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, part of a clampdown on nationwide unrest. Nationwide protests erupted after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman…

Radio France Internationale

Sister of Iran's supreme leader slams crackdown on nationwide protests

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests. This, as former president Mohammed Khatami threw his support behind the protest movement too.

France 24

Iran ex-president Mohammad Khatami voices support for protests

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has voiced support for the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, describing as "beautiful" its main slogan — "Woman, life, freedom".

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10% of Detained Protesters in Iran Are Women

The Iranian regime said Tuesday that women make up 10% of people arrested during the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died on Sept. 16 in custody of the country’s morality police. She was detained for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress…

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Sister of Iran’s Khamenei Condemns His Rule, Urges Revolutionary Guards to Disarm

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son. Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman…

Reuters

Sister of Iran's leader condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm - letter

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.

Chicago Sun-Times

Confusion over Iran’s religious police as women drop hijab

it has appeared for weeks that enforcement of the nation’s strict dress code has been scaled back, with more women seen in public not wearing the required headscarf.

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