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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 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

Irish Mirror

EU targets Iran over protest crackdown, Russia drone sales

European Union foreign ministers have imposed new sanctions on clerics, senior officials and top state media employees in Iran over the government's brutal crackdown on protesters

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

More Iranians at imminent risk of execution: rights groups

PARIS: Several Iranians were on Sunday at risk of imminent execution over protests that have rocked the country's clerical regime, rights groups warned, after an international backlash over Iran's first hanging linked to the movement.

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More Iranians at imminent risk of execution: rights groups

Paris (AFP) - 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.

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Australia imposes sanctions on Iran

The federal government is taking action against Iran's Morality Police and others after the death in custody in September of Mahsa Amini sparked mass protests.

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Iran’s Raisi Promises to Pursue Crackdown on Protesters

A prominent dissenting Sunni cleric on Friday said the death sentence of a protester involved in recent Iranian anti-government unrest violated religious law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press on with a security crackdown a day after the man's execution. On Thursday, Iran hanged Mohsen Shekari, who had been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran's Raisi promises to pursue crackdown on protesters; cleric critical of execution

A prominent dissenting Sunni cleric on Friday said the death sentence of an Iranian protester involved in anti-government unrest violated sharia law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press on with a crackdown a day after the man's execution.

Reuters

Anger as Iran carries out first known execution in wake of Mahsa Amini protests

Iran has carried out the first known execution of a prisoner arrested during the months-long protests that have rocked the country since the alleged police killing of Mahsa Amini, according to state media.

Irish Independent

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

Iran carries out the first known execution of a prisoner arrested in recent protests

Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.

WEKU

Iran carries out first known execution over Amini protests

Paris (AFP) - Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member in what human rights activists condemned as "show trials".

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Al Jazeera

Iran conducts first protest-related execution

The man was convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife, while others have been sentenced to death.

Reuters

Iran holds first execution over anti-government protests

Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the first such execution over recent anti-government unrest.

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.

Liverpool Echo

Former Iranian prisoner cries every time he sees clips of his home country

He is asking the people of Liverpool to help him in being the voice of the Iranian people

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Iran youths rally and workers strike on Students' Day

Paris (AFP) - Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president publicly supported protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.

The Atlantic

The Real Reason Iran Says It’s Canceling the Morality Police

Don’t be fooled that this is meaningful reform. It’s about regime self-preservation.

France 24

Is it the end for Iran's morality police? Activists sceptical of claims body is being disbanded

A three-day general strike is taking place in Iran this week. It's a show of defiance, as the anti-regime protest movement approaches its three-month mark with no sign of abating. On Monday, the strike was observed in dozens of Iranian cities, from the capital Tehran to Isfahan, Tabriz and the…

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.

France 24

Iran’s protest movement: 'The tipping point isn't far away'

As the protest movement in Iran continues to grow in intensity following calls for another three-day strike, the prosecutor general made the surprise announcement on Saturday that the country’s morality police, the group responsible for the death of Mahsa Amini which sparked the protests, had been abolished. The declaration was…

Reuters

Khamenei calls for overhaul of Iran's cultural system

Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday called for "revolutionary reconstruction of the country's cultural system", state media reported, as nationwide protests kept up pressure on the authorities.

The Independent UK

What will happen to the Iran World Cup team now?

Even before the World Cup, male athletes had been joining in the protests. But now they’ve done so at the foremost global tournament, and Iranian fans say they are worried for ‘Team Melli’ and what they might face on their return. Ari Honarvar reports

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