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Lashed then freed

c_250_150_16777215_00___images_shalagh-omumi.jpg Regime urged to release all imprisoned journalists and netizensReporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that a number of prisoners of opinion, including seven journalists and netizens, were released on 15 August.

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The list of 75 political prisoners granted pardon and released from Evin prison

c_250_150_16777215_00___images_iran-evin-prison_12.04.12.jpgAccording to reports by Kaleme, on Thursday August 16th, 2012, 75 political were released from Evin prison who have been pardoned by the Supreme Leader of Iran. The sentences of 9 additional political prisoners were reduced. 

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Imprisoned attorney tortured

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Houtan_Kian-150x98.jpgThe attorney of imprisoned attorney Houtan Kian claims that his client is being tortured with cigarettes, isolated and transferred to the ward for methadone addicts.

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Kurdish Smuggler killed by Iranian Border Police

c_250_150_16777215_00___images_kolbar2.jpgHRANA News Agency – Saleh Baduzadeh, An Iranian Kurdish Illegal Trader, was killed by direct shooting of Iranian border police.

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Iran doctors struggle with injured from Iran quakes

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earthquake-3.jpgDUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope on Monday with thousands injured by a pair of powerful earthquakes that killed nearly 300 people and wrecked scores of villages.

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Larestan Communication Workers Protest

c_250_150_16777215_00___images_worker.jpgOn August 6, more than 40 workers and employees at Larestan Communication Company took their protests to the governor’s offices.

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Iran: Prisoners released after annual pardons

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Prisoners%20released.jpgHRANA News Agency – Following reports that Iran's Supreme Leader has pardoned 130 prisoners charged with security crimes, the Tehran Prosecutor's office announced that so far about 90 prisoners have been released.

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Wave of repression and mass arrests in Khuzestan as political prisoner dies under torture

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zendani--3.jpgAlireza Ghobaishavy, a political prisoner, 37, an Arab compatriot in Ahwaz, died under torture by Iranian regime’s hangmen, on August 7.

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Iran threatens to disconnect from the Internet

c_250_150_16777215_00___images_iran-internet-censors4.jpgNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — In April, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of F-Secure, a Finnish computer security firm, received an unusual email. It came from a scientist working at the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran, and read:

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Death toll rises in Iran earthquakes

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earthquake-4.jpgTABRIZ, Iran, Aug. 11 (UPI) — At least 180 people were killed and 1,530 injured Saturday by two powerful earthquakes that destroyed villages in northwestern Iran, officials said.

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Amnesty International Urgent Action: Gholamreza Khosravi at Risk of Execution

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5-e1344677739797.jpgAn Iranian man, Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani, is scheduled to be executed on 10 September, on the charge of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) for his alleged support of a banned Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).

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