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According to the Iran Democratic Association, On Tuesday Dec.
5th the Committee of the Canadian Friends of Democratic Iran will host a gathering at the Parliament Hill titled: "The violations of human rights in Iran, the role of IRGC(Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps) and Canada's policy". A number of Senators and MPs from all parties will speak at the event which will start at 6pm Tuesday Dec 5.

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According The secretariat of the Iranian Resistance statement: National Council of Resistance of Iran Dec. 1, the Iranian regime has executed 18 prisoners from the 22nd to the 29th of November 2017. Ten of these hangings were carried out in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, including the mass execution of nine prisoners on Wednesday, November 29th. Six prisoners were executed in Tabriz Central Prison on November 22nd and the 26th. Two prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Babol (northern Iran) and Qaen (eastern Iran) on November 28th. This is when a European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Iran had traveled to Tehran.
NCRI's statement added: Visits by foreign delegations to Iran under any excuse and/or pretext only encourage the criminal mullahs to continue and expand their crackdown, executions and harsh security measures. Any relations with this regime must hinge on improving Iran’s human rights situation, especially halting all executions

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According to the state-run Mizan news Dec. 2, the Public Prosecutor of Arak announced that the security forces in this city had arrested 24 women and men in a private party. Abbas Gassemi said the cases of those arrested have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office in Arak for completion of their files.



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Iranian regime's Religious scholars continue their campaign against women. Following Makarem Shirazi and Nouri Hamedani, Khamenei’s representative in the Holy City of Qom blasted a plan proposing women’s admission to sports stadiums. In his speech in the Friday prayer, Saeedi stated, “The corruption caused by this issue (i.e. women’s presence in sports stadiums) cannot be solved by legislation.”


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According to state-run Mehr news Nov. 28, In a gathering on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Parvaneh Salahshouri, head of the women’s faction in the Iranian regime's parliament, admitted, “The anxiety and fear caused by the Guidance Patrol affects some young women and girls for long years, leaving undesirable psychological consequences. As an MP, I have seen cases when the girl’s cover was not that bad but such unprincipled approaches have caused psychological problems for the person, leading to other ailments.”
For the past 38 years the Iranian regime has failed to make women and young girls to wear the Hijab imposed by the regime.

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Tuesday and Wednesday, November 28-29, saw more protests across the country by Iran’s men and women against the ruling regime’s fraud and repression.
People looted by state-backed credit institutes staged five separate gatherings in Tehran, Ahwaz and Mashhad to demand their money back. In the protest gathering in Mashhad in front of the Prosecutor’s Office, security forces beat up a woman, making the protesters outraged.
Contract teachers in Shahreza, in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, gathered on November 28, 2017, in front of the Department of Education to protest their undetermined employment status.
Another gathering took place on November 27, by former employees of Saderat Bank in front of the mullahs’ parliament in Tehran to protest their sudden dismissal. Some 600 men and women working in this bank were laid off overnight, three months ago. 
On the same day, specialist physicians of Valfajr Clinic in Gachsaran, in southwestern Iran, gathered to demand their salaries unpaid for six months and other unpaid benefits. They vowed that they would not go back to work until achieving their rights.
Students also held their own gatherings on these two days.
On November 28, the post-graduate students of Tehran’s Melli University gathered outside the General Education building to protest fees demanded for prerequisite courses.
On November 29, 2017, students of Science and Culture University protested closure of the university’s entrance to the School of Art.

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Prisoner of conscience Golrokh Iraee sent an open letter from Evin Prison where she is detained calling for justice for the perpetrators of the 1980's massacres in Iran. The letter comes in the wake of the acceptance by the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances of the complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared demanding information about the fate of her siblings executed during the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. In parts of her letter, Ms. Iraee writes:
Those who sought power turned their backs on the aspirations of the children of this land… In response to a yes-or-no response, they sent thousands to the firing squads and gallows. Their lifeless bodies were buried en masse in a bid to wipe their memory from the minds of the nation…
Many worried in these years about those who had been unjustly executed, but what is necessary is the complaints by their families as private plaintiffs. Like Maryam (Akbari Monfared), they should follow up directly the cases of their relatives. Maryam is not alone. She represents thousands of people who have lost members of their families.
Our failure to react and follow up these crimes will lead to more horrible crimes.
We should help echo their voice louder. A voice that has been resonating over the sky of this country for years. We should announce that we seek justice for the bloody crimes of the 1980's.