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Iran ‘using Gaza conflict as cover’ for execution of 127 people since war began

The Observer 03 Dec 2023
The vast majority of Iran’s Muslims are Shia ... At the end of October, Iranian authorities also arrested Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer and human rights defender, as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident with a member of Iran’s morality police.
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An Iranian rights lawyer detained for allegedly not wearing hijab was freed on bail, husband says

San Francisco Chronicle 15 Nov 2023
At the time, authorities said Sotoudeh was arrested on a charge of violating Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, law.
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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has gone on hunger strike, her family says

Egypt Independent 08 Nov 2023
The 51-year-old rights activist was awarded the Nobel on October 6 for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” That battle has come at a huge personal cost – she’s been sentenced to more than 30 years in jail, and has been banned from seeing her husband and children.
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Iranian journalist Negar Ostad Agha detained reporting on girl’s funeral

CPJ 06 Nov 2023
On October 29, Ostad Agha, a journalist and senior editor at Etemad Online was arrested in a cemetery in Iran’s capital, Tehran, while covering the funeral of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, according to news reports. Geravand died after falling into a coma while in the Tehran Metro on October 1.
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Inside the 'Gaza Metro', the network of Hamas tunnels under Gaza

RTE 02 Nov 2023
Among the factors complicating their mission of eliminating Hamas is the "Gaza Metro", a vast network of interconnected tunnels within the region ... Hamas terrorist give RT a tour of their tunnel network in Gaza - called the Metro ... Unsurprisingly, key Hamas allies, including Iran are boasting about the Gaza Metro.
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What Israel can expect in a ‘Gaza Metro’ tunnel fight

Asiatimes 02 Nov 2023
Among the factors complicating their mission of eliminating Hamas is the “Gaza Metro”, a vast network of interconnected tunnels within the region ... Unsurprisingly, key Hamas allies, including Iran are boasting about the Gaza Metro ... ‘Gaza Metro’ map shows labyrinthine network of tunnels.
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What the Israel Defence Force can expect when it enters the 'Gaza Metro' tunnel system

The Conversation 01 Nov 2023
Among the factors complicating their mission of eliminating Hamas is the “ Gaza Metro ”, a vast network of interconnected tunnels within the region ... Unsurprisingly, key Hamas allies, including Iran are boasting about the Gaza Metro ... But years of dealing with the Hamas Metro means the IDF is not entirely unequipped to confront the challenge ... .
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What the Israel Defence Forces can expect when it enters the 'Gaza Metro' tunnel system

The Conversation 01 Nov 2023
Among the factors complicating their mission of eliminating Hamas is the “ Gaza Metro ”, a vast network of interconnected tunnels within the region ... Unsurprisingly, key Hamas allies, including Iran are boasting about the Gaza Metro ... But years of dealing with the Hamas Metro means the IDF is not entirely unequipped to confront the challenge ... .
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What the Israel Defence Forces can expect when they enter the 'Gaza Metro' tunnel system

The Conversation 01 Nov 2023
Among the factors complicating their mission of eliminating Hamas is the “ Gaza Metro ”, a vast network of interconnected tunnels within the region ... Unsurprisingly, key Hamas allies, including Iran are boasting about the Gaza Metro ... But years of dealing with the Hamas Metro means the IDF is not entirely unequipped to confront the challenge ... .
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US deplores death of Iranian Kurdish girl after metro incident

The News International 30 Oct 2023
Iran’s state sponsored violence against its own people is appalling and underscores the fragility of the regime.” Garawand, a 17-year-old from Iran’s Kurdish region, had been in a coma in Tehran’s Fajr hospital since October 1 after losing consciousness in the city’s metro.
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Iran arrests prominent lawyer at funeral of metro death teen

Arab News 30 Oct 2023
Covering the neck and head in public has been compulsory for women since 1983, following Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution ... Garawand’s case was first reported on October 3 by Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran’s morality police.
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Iran arrests lawyer at funeral of girl who died after metro incident

The Observer 30 Oct 2023
Covering the neck and head in public has been compulsory for women since 1983, following Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution ... Garawand’s case was first reported on 3 October by the Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran’s morality police.
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Iran Arrests Human Rights Lawyer at Funeral for Teen Who Died in Metro Incident

Voa News 30 Oct 2023
Covering the neck and head in public has been compulsory for women since 1983, following Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution ... Garawand's case was first reported on October 3 by Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran's morality police.
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Iranians chant

The Daily Mail 30 Oct 2023
Hengaw, a Norway-based Kurdish human rights NGO, claimed that Geravand was attacked by hijab officers in Shohada Station, a stop on the city's metro, for not wearing a hijab, which all women in Iran are meant to wear under strict morality laws ... involving Iran's morality police.

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