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Some 174 Lecturers from Tehran's Sharif University of Technology called the Iranian government to release Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, two of the university's imprisoned students.

A clash between an armed Baluch group and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps killed and injured several Baluch citizens and Iranian forces in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, Rasanak news agency reported.

Atsa Ahmadaei-Rafsanjani, an Iranian citizen from the minority Baháʼí Faith, is convicted on multiple charges and has given an 8-year prison sentence in total by Iranian Revolutionary Court, Baháʼí activists told Avatoday.

Today PEN America and the Center for Human Rights in Iran, along with a coalition of human rights organizations, sent a joint letter to President Biden asking his administration to ensure that human rights concerns are at the center of US foreign policy towards Tehra

The international human rights organization Amnesty International said Iran is destroying mass grave sites for the victims of the 1988 prison massacres.

Iranian government on Tuesday asked for prisoner exchange with the United States amid nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers to revive 2015-nuclear deal.

An Iranian court has sentenced British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a new one-year in jail and travel ban on charges of spreading propaganda against the regime, her husband said on Monday.

Turkey wants to deport Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a Kurdish political activist to Iran, his wife Fereshteh Tajmiri told Avatoday.

A group of political inmates at Tehran's notorious prison of Evin released a statement on Sunday warning about the spread of coronavirus among the prisoners and asking for a temporary leave of absence.

Mohammad Nourizad, a prominent political activist jailed in Tehran’s notorious prison of Evin, in a letter asked Iranians to boycott the presidential election in June.