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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CET
Regime affiliated inmates rape young prisoner with impunity in SW Iran
Three inmates affiliated with prison guards raped a 22-year-old prisoner in Shiraz’s Adel Abad Prison in southwestern Iran.
An informed source told Javaneha website that the 22-year-old was gang raped by three older inmates, elements of the prison’s Intelligence Protection agency. The source, who asked that the raped prisoner remain anonymous said the young man has been detained for four months in the prison’s section 11 for getting into a fight.
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Iran: Employees of the Ramin Power Station protest
Employees of the Ramin Power Station in Ahvaz, gathered today to demand their unpaid wages.
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Iran: Employees of the Khuzestan Rural Water and Sewage Co. protest
Employees of the Khuzestan Rural Water and Sewage Co. gathered outside the company building today to demand 5 months of their delayed paychecks and benefits.
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NetBlocks: Partial internet disruption registered in Iran on first anniversary of Iran’s November protests
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirm a partial disruption to internet service in Iran between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. local time (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. UTC) on Monday, 16 November 2020.
Metrics show an anomalous three-hour period of reduction in connection quality and speed impacting multiple networks, corroborating user reports of issues accessing international services, including VPN services.
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Iranian Christian convert received 80 lashes for drinking communion wine
#Iranian Christian convert Zaman Fadaei received 80 lashes for drinking communion wine.
The brutal flogging sentence was carried out despite international condemnation of the recent flogging of another Christian convert Youhan Omidi on the same charges. https://t.co/IEliF27oBu pic.twitter.com/9mW4yxH4fO— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) November 17, 2020
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Mother of Farhad Mojadam: “I was not allowed to visit my son’s grave”
Mother of Farhad Mojadam, a protester killed during Nov. 2019 #IranProtests says that she was not allowed to visit her son's grave in the Beheshte Rezvan Cemetary in Karaj. #Iran regime killed 1,500 people & now they don't allow their families to mourn.pic.twitter.com/mGWAynsHjS
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) November 17, 2020
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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET
Iran: Coronavirus death toll surpasses 156,700 in 465 cities
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Monday, November 16, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 156,700 people in 465 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 38,241 in Tehran, 11,590 in Khorasan Razavi, 8,805 in Isfahan, 6,645 in Lorestan, 6,475 in Qom, 6,442 in Mazandaran, 5,832 in East Azerbaijan, 5,214 in West Azerbaijan, 4,275 in Alborz, 4,275 in Fars, 4,035 in Hamedan, 3,423 in Kermanshah, 2,940 in Markazi (Central), 2,820 in Kurdistan, 2,707 in Yazd, 2,648 in Kerman, 1,708 in Ardabil, 1470 in Zanjan, 1,420 in Ilam, and 1,386 in South Khorasan.
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Amnesty International: A WEB OF IMPUNITY – The killings Iran’s internet shutdown hid
In November 2019, security forces in Iran killed at least 304 men, women and children during five days of protests which swept across the country. Security forces used lethal force unlawfully against the vast majority of protesters and bystanders killed, shooting most to the head or torso, indicating intent to kill. To this day, no official has been held accountable for the unlawful killings. The deadly crackdown was accompanied by the authorities shutting down access to the internet for most of the population.
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Twitter users reminisce Iran’s “Bloody November” in response to regime’s indifference
On the first anniversary of the November 2019 anti-government protests that swept across Iran, Twitter users used the hashtag #كدام_آبان, “Which November?” to commemorate fallen protesters, and to express their outrage over the brutal suppression of the protests.
The hashtag started when the sister of a slain protester was called by the office of the regime’s Supreme Leader.
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The grieving mother of Mehdi Daemi visited the grave of her 25-year-old son on the anniversary of November 2019 protests
The grieving mother of Mehdi Daemi visited the grave of her 25-year-old son on the anniversary of Nov. 2019 #IranProtests
Security forces shot & killed Mehdi in Tehran's Malard district because he joined the protests last year & demanded a better life. pic.twitter.com/MDTjpJt1Nn— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) November 16, 2020
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Teenage Kurdish girl Aynaz Zare’e sentenced to five years in prison
Teenage Kurdish girl Aynaz Zare’e has been sentenced to five years in prison. The First Branch of the Penal Court of Urmia which specially examines cases of teenagers and minors, sentenced Aynaz Zare’e, 17, to five years in prison on Monday, November 16, 2020. The teenage Kurdish girl Aynaz Zare’e has been imprisoned since October along with her mother, Shahnaz Sadeqifar in the Central Prison of Urmia. She is charged with “acting against national security” for membership in a Kurdish party. She did not have access to a lawyer during her prosecution.
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One year ago, security forces killed Hossein Keshavarz in Tehran, during November protests
One year ago, security forces shot and killed Hossein Keshavarz in Tehran, #Iran during Nov. 2019 #IranProtests three days after he got married.
This is his grave in Zanjan, NW #Iran. pic.twitter.com/6WNKY6B4CE— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) November 16, 2020
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Iran news in brief, November 17, 2020
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Tuesday, November 17, 2020, marks the 361st day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 828 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:
Number of uprising cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000
Read more: Iran News in Brief – November 16, 2020