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Mr. Youssef Emadi, a composer prisoner incarcerated in Evin prison who objected non-implementation of the principle of separation of crimes in Evin on July 23 was taken away under the pretext of “being sent to the prison warden room” but transferred to an unknown location. Some sources consider the meaning of dispatch to the prison warden room as being transferred to Ward 2A of the Revolutionary Guards in Evin prison.

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The trial of three Telegram activists; Mohammad Mohajer, Alireza Tavakoli and Mohammad Mehdi Zamanzadeh was held on Wednesday August 2, in Tehran’s appeal court while they had only five minutes of defense. These 3 young men were arrested on September 2016 and each were sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court presided by notorious Sheira judge Abolqasem Salavati.
According to reports, Salavati not only did not allow the men's lawyers to speak, but during the court hearing told the three defendants: “You are apostate and anti-revolutionary, I wonder why you have not been executed until now!”

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According to State-run Farhangian news website Aug. 3, the National Center of Statistics in Iran announced that 5,569,044 of the illiterate population in the country are women. According to this center, 117,867 girls between 6 and 9,  37,915 between 10 and 14 and 58,163 between 15 and 19 years old are illiterate in Iran.



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It is official, there are no women minister in Hassan Rouhani's cabinet. State-run Mehr news agency reported on Aug. 4 that Tayyebeh Siavoshi, member of women’s faction in the Iranian regime's parliament, said the reason for Rouhani’s refusal to pick any women as minister, is that “A range of reasons have been brought up, the most important being that the traditional sector of society is opposed to women’s prominent presence in the executive arena and some people disagree.” Siavoshi added, “There is news that the number of female deputies of the president is going to be reduced and women are going to work only in the women’s directorate. As for the Minister of Education, there is no reliable news either.”

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Hassan Rouhani the Iranian regime's president dismissed Mostafa Pour Mohammad from his cabinet. It is said that the rise of the 1988 Justice-seeking movement is the reason behind his decision.
Pour Mohammadi was one of the members of the “Death Committee” and one of the main perpetrators of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988.

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According to EU Reporter, Aug. 3, the Iranian Resistance
welcomes the signing into law by President Trump of legislation imposing new sanctions against the clerical regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). It calls for this law to be implemented immediately, meticulously and without exception and urges the European Union to join these sanctions. The expulsion of the IRGC and its affiliated militias from the Middle East, in particular from Syria and Iraq, is indispensable to the enactment of this law and a prerequisite to ending the conflict and crisis that have engulfed the entire region.


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New charges have been brought against jailed civil rights activist Atena Daemi in the Moghadasi Court because she went on hunger strike last April in Iran. The new charges are made upon a complaint filed against her by the Warden of Evin Prison and head of the medical clinic in Evin for “disrupting prison order and insulting agents.” On Monday July 26, Atena Daemi was transferred from Evin's Women Ward to the 4th Branch of Prosecutor’s Office to be questioned by interrogator Hassani. While defending herself, Atena asked the interrogator to summon her trusted doctor to testify regarding her health conditions now and when she was on a hunger strike.

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 Nastaran Na’imi was arrested by the Iranian security forces and taken to an unknown location on July 31st. Her husband internet activist Soheil Arabi has been in prison since 2014. He was charged with insulting the leader, spreading propaganda against the government, and insulting the officials. The couple have a young daughter. It's been reported that in protest of his wife's incarseration, Soheil has gone on hunger strike.


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Plain-clothes agents belonging to State Security Forces confronted women who were riding their bikes in Marivan, Iranian Kurdistan, on August 1. According to reports, the agents impounded bicycles of some of these women and made them sign written commitments that they would never ride their bikes in public. On a number of occasions over the past year, the SSF has prevented bicycling women and girls in public in Marivan.


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The official IRNA news agency reported on July 30th that 41,000 girls under 15 years of age get married every year in Iran.
Social scientist and writer, Rayeheh Mozaffarian, announced these figures on the marriage of girl children in Iran and added, “37,117 girls under 15 years of age got married in 2014 with men of various ages, while 1,249 girls in this age got divorced.”
Mozaffarian also revealed that the largest number of girls getting married under 10 years of age are in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan. Next in line are the provinces of Razavi Khorassan, East Azerbaijan, and Khuzistan for marriages of girl children between 10 and 14 years of age in 2014.
Mozaffarian added, “Early pregnancy inflicts the greatest psychological and physical damages on married girl children… Presently, nearly 1,700 pregnant mothers under 15 years of age are experiencing their first pregnancy.” She also said, “Based on research done, the largest numbers of mothers who die between 25 and 30 years of age belong to (the southern Iranian) Province of Hormuzgan. On average, these women have given birth to three children up to this age. After the third delivery, they face the risk of death.”


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Fatemeh Almasi, a civil rights activist, has been summoned to the Department of Intelligence. She was called on July 30th and told to report in on Tuesday, August 1st. But security forces arrested her at home and transferred her to the Department of Intelligence. She was released on bail five days later.
During the raid, agents seized her personal belongings such as her laptop and cellphone. Fatemeh is a retired teacher living in Baharestan district of Saqqez in Iranian Kurdistan province. She has been arrested three times in recent years.

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A photo has been recently published on the internet showing the Moral Security Patrols cracking down on women on Farahabad Beach, by the Caspian Sea, northern Iran. The picture shows several black-clad women of the State Security Force accompanied by male officers, warning several young women on the beach. The SSF Moral Security commander, Gholam-haydar Heydari, had announced on June 20, that SSF forces were free to enter private beaches along the Caspian Sea and other Iranian beaches for inspection purposes.