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20-year-old Kurd man killed under torture in Tehran
The Kurdish man, Mehrdad Taleshi had been arrested on February 1, 2021, in a metro station in Tehran.
Mehrdad Taleshi was a 20-year-old athlete from the western city of Divandere, Kurdestan Province. He had moved to Tehran two years ago to live with his sister.
Hengaw human rights website reported that at 10 pm on the same day he was arrested, Mehrdad Taleshi was transferred to the Shahpour Police Station in Tehran where he was brutally beaten and killed under torture. So that the beatings on his head and neck were quite visible.
Genius Iranian students remain in solitary confinement after 10 months
Ten months on, genius Iranian students Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi are still being detained in the Intelligence Ministry Ward 209 of Evin Prison without standing trial.
Plainclothes agents of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) arrested the two genius Iranian students on April 10, 2020, at their respective homes. They brutalized them at the time of arrest and did not produce any warrant for their apprehension.
Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi studied computer engineering and physics, respectively, at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology.
UPDATE: 3:30 PM CET
Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced an environmental activist to 4 years in prison
A Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, western #Iran has sentenced Kurdish environmental activist Faranak Jamshidi to 4 years in prison for membership in a Kurd dissident group. #FreeKurdishActivists pic.twitter.com/8pVffU9flM
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) February 9, 2021
Execution of a young woman in the Prison of Ardabil, NW Iran
Execution of a young woman in the Prison of Ardabil, northwestern Iran, marks the execution of the 113th woman during Rouhani’s tenure.
The unidentified young woman, 23, was executed at dawn on Monday, February 8, 2021. She had been imprisoned since five years ago. There are 50 death-row inmates in the Prison of Ardabil.
The authorities of the Central Prison of Sanandaj in western Iran hanged Zeinab Khodamoradi on December 27, 2020.
France 24 – Iran, N. Korea resumed missile collaboration in 2020: UN report
North Korea and Iran resumed cooperation on the development of long-range missiles in 2020, according to a UN report that also confirmed Pyongyang continues to violate various nuclear resolutions.
The annual report, produced by an independent panel of UN experts, was submitted to the Security Council on Monday and seen by AFP.
CAPX – Tehran’s state terror has reached Europe – is the West ready to confront it?
By Bob Blackman MP
Last week a Belgian federal court gave its verdict on the prosecution of a high-ranking Iranian diplomat, Assadollah Assadi for terrorism. Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The question now is what an appropriate response is for Western governments on both sides of the Atlantic?
Assadi, the former third counsellor at the Iranian embassy in Vienna, stood trial alongside three accomplices in connection with their plan to set off explosives at a 2018 gathering of Iranian expatriates and diplomatic supporters, organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Two of those accomplices were arrested by Belgian authorities while attempting to carry several hundred grams of the high-explosive TATP to the intended target venue. The third was detained after having already gained entrance to that venue just outside of Paris. Assadi himself was arrested in Germany before he was able to return to his Austrian post and the protection of diplomatic immunity.
120 House Republicans Urge Biden Not to Reenter Iran Nuclear Deal As Is
Dear President Joe Biden,
It has come to our attention that you may be considering a re-entry to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) without first pursuing any changes to the 2015 agreement. It is critically important that you do not allow history to repeat itself with a fatally flawed Iran Nuclear Deal.
UPDATE: 10:00 AM CET
Corona Disaster in 480 Cities in Iran Takes 212,900 Lives
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Monday, February 8, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 480 cities across Iran had exceeded 212,900. The number of victims in Tehran is 51,211, Khorasan Razavi 14,300, Isfahan 13,605, Khuzestan 10,620, Mazandaran 8,872, West Azerbaijan 7,848, Gilan 7,586, Golestan 5,519, Alborz 5,408, Kermanshah 4,364, Central Province 4,293, Kurdistan 3,672, Semnan 3,185, Hormozgan 2,260, and Bushehr 2,139.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 212,900 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 480 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/H2QSz2UfEJ pic.twitter.com/8LcRiIGz7o
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 9, 2021
Iran: workers, teachers protest in several cities
A group of contract teachers held a protest rally in front of the Majlis (parliament) on Sunday, while chanting slogans: “We have suffered much. We’ve seen no justice.”
The teachers are demanding MPs to vote for their work status to be changed to full-time employment. This is one of the several demands that the contract teachers have been pursuing in the past years. Others include payment of overdue wages and experience bonuses. The education minister has confirmed that the government has not yet paid the wages of many contract teachers for the first six months of the calendar year. And the deputy education minister for planning and resource development claims the government has “financial constraints.”
Iran: People celebrate prison sentence of regime terrorist-diplomat
The supporters and the sympathizers of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and other people across Iran celebrated an Antwerp, Belgium court verdict of 20 years imprisonment for Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat who plotted to bomb the rally of the Iranian opposition in 2018 in Villepinte, near Paris.
Assadi carried the explosives in a diplomatic bag from Tehran and handed them over to Belgian-Iranian terrorists in Antwerp who were arrested on June 30 on their way to the rally. Assadi was arrested on July 1, 2018, in Germany. Assadi was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, and this caused major joy and happiness among Iranians around the world and in particular in Iran.
Ata Babakhani, a member of Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was summoned to present himself to the Intelligence and Security Police center within five days. A new case has been opened against him on charges of disrupting national security. Iran
Ata Babakhani, a member of Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was summoned to present himself to the Intelligence and Security Police center within five days.
A new case has been opened against him on charges of disrupting national security. #Iran pic.twitter.com/7hvJpIxAeo— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) February 8, 2021
Read more: Iran News in Brief – February 8, 2021
