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04 Aug Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests

Posted at 04:25h in News

Almost 10 months after Mahsa Amini died in police custody, triggering weeks of protest across Iran, police vans are again patrolling the country’s streets looking for women who are not wearing the hijab “correctly”. Now, however, the vans and officers will not bear the name...

04 Aug In Iran, angry pensioners protest inflation, government

Posted at 04:12h in News

Food prices have almost doubled within a year, and increasing numbers of retired people are falling below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the government continues to invest heavily in the arms industry...

04 Aug Petition to free Frenchman detained in Iran gathers over 100,000 signatures

Posted at 04:10h in News

A petition calling for the release of Louis Arnaud, a Frenchman detained in Iran since the end of September, has collected more than 100,000 signatures in two weeks, his support committee said on Tuesday...