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Iranian American supporters of the main Iranian opposition group
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) rallied on Wednesday, September 25, for two day in New York outside the United Nations chanting #No2Rouhani and voicing their opposition to the regime ruling Iran. The demonstrators demanded the UN expel the Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani and its delegation. The protesters described Rouhani as the representative of a warmongering regime that carries out world’s highest number of executions. Iran’s regime considers its survival conditional upon continued support for terrorism, human rights violations, attacking oil facilities, piracy, and nuclear blackmail, they stated. The delegation of such a state should be expelled from the UN immediately. Prominent American speakers including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former US senators Joe Lieberman and Bob Torricelli, and former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army General Jack Keane addressed the #FreeIran rally. Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi said in a message to the rally: “The UN Security Council must declare the clerical regime a threat to global peace and security. And, the dossier of the regime’s human rights violations, particularly the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, must be referred to an international tribunal.”“Ousting the clerical regime from the rest of the region and expelling the IRGC and proxy militias from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and Afghanistan is an urgent imperative.” “We urge all countries to join the international front against the religious fascism.” “The international community must recognize the right of the Iranian people’s Resistance to overthrow religious fascism and achieve freedom.”

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According to Women committee of the Iranian resistance NCRI, an
unidentified woman was hanged along with seven male prisoners on Wednesday, September 25, in Karaj in Gohardasht Prison. The Iranian regime has executed at least 12 prisoners including two women on September 24 and 25 of this year. Taking into account the execution that took place on September 25, the number of women executed during Rouhani’s tenure reaches 96. Eight of these women have been hanged in a period of slightly over three months. One of these women was Leila Zarafshan who was executed on Thursday, September 26, 2019, in the Central Prison of Sanandaj. This is where 9 women executed during the entire year 2016, ten women in 2017, and 6 women in 2018.

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Four student and labor activists in an open letter denounced the Iranian intelligence forces’ harsh treatment of student and labor activists and journalists, issuing heavy sentences for them. These student and labor activists are Sanaz Allahyari, Asal Mohammadi, Marzieh Amiri, and Neda Naji, presently incarcerated in Evin Prison. In part of the letter sent out of prison in September 2019, they wrote, “We believed the workers’ legitimate demands are our own, and supported them.” They also wrote about the pressures imposed on student and labor activists: “Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court issued heavy sentences of 10.5 to 18 years of imprisonment for them based on recommendations of intelligence officials overseeing the case, without paying the slightest attention to the defendants and their lawyers’ defense. In examining the cases, they discriminate against labor and civil activists, to disappoint the defendant of any justice and to force them gamble on their lives.” Sanaz Allahyari and her husband, Amir Hossein Mohammadifard, are journalists and members of the editorial board of GAM internet magazine, who were arrested in January 2019. GAM wrote about social issues, including the rights of workers. Neda Naji is another labor activist arrested on the International Labor Day in Tehran. Marzieh Amiri, a student and labor activist, wrote about Sharq newspaper. And Asal Mohammadi was arrested in the protests of sugarcane workers of Haft Tappeh factory. In a related development, the office of Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran called the bail depositor for labor activist Nahid Khodajoo, giving him the message that she should report to this branch. This method of summoning is illegal even according to the clerical regime’s legal procedures, and the court must contact the accused person directly. This is the second time that the Revolutionary Court of Tehran is summoning Nahid Khodajoo in this manner to impose psychological pressure on her.

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Sedigheh Vasmaghi an Iranian writer and poet, was banned from leaving the country for a seminar on Saturday, September 21. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran had sentenced Sedigheh Vasmaghi to five years in prison in October 2017, on the charge of “propaganda against the state.” In November, she was temporarily released on bail, but in April 2018, her sentence was suspended by the Revision Court.
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The 36th Branch of Tehran’s Revision Court upheld the preliminary sentence issued for Tehran University student, Parisa Rafii. She was sentenced to 7 years prison and 74 lashes plus depriving her of leaving the country for two years and membership in parties and groups. A source close to this student activist said she was sent for virginity test, threatened with execution, brutalized and her nails pulled. She was deprived of all her legal rights because she did not cooperate with her interrogators.

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The Sharia  Court of Tehran sentenced a Baha’i woman, Samin Maqsoudi, to five years in prison for her belief in the Baha’i faith, on September 22. The Shahria Court of Kerman also sentenced two Baha’i women residing in Kerman, Kiana Rezvani and Kimia Mostafavi, to six years in prison each.

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Giti Pourfazel, Shahla Entesari, and Shahla Jahanbin have been transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison after one-month detention in the notorious Qarchak Prison. All three had been arrested in August 2019 by intelligence ministry agents and taken to unknown locations.