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Over 306,800 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 543 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Thursday June 6.

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Kurdish student and civil activist Vian Mohammadi has started a hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia to protest her continued illegal detention. An Interrogation Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad extended the warrant for the detention of this Kurdish student activist for another month on May 31, 2021. Mrs. Mohammadi started a hunger strike on the same day in the Central Prison of Urmia, after which she was deprived of calling her family. https://tinyurl.com/337ebr6v

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Retired teacher Nahid Fat’halian has tested positive for the Covid-19. Intelligence services have detained her in the women’s ward of Evin Prison in legal limbo since April 2020. Mrs. Fat’halian needs to receive proper treatment, while her stay in prison would threaten the health of other prisoners. Evin Prison authorities have not tested other prisoners and have not separated her from other inmates. Intelligence services arrested the retired teacher Nahid Fat’halian in mid-April 2020. Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran convened on September 16, 2020, to examine her charges. The charges leveled against Mrs. Fat’halian included “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state,” and “destruction of public properties.” https://tinyurl.com/zsvw7d3s

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Iranian teachers with various forms of temporary contracts held protests in Tehran and Isfahan from May 29 to June 2. Young teachers have vowed to continue their protests until their demands such as their salaries, work condition, and etc... are granted.

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A woman was executed along with her husband in the Central Prison of Qazvin-Iran at dawn on Sunday, May 30. She was the 118th woman executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as the Iranian regime's president. The couple who were cousins identified by the last name of Pir-Ostovan. The woman’s first name is not known. They were arrested 8 years ago on Qazvin-Karaj Highway and sentenced to death in their first court hearing on charge of drug-trafficing. Mrs. Pir-Ostovan is the first woman executed after the amendment of the law on punishment of drug-related crimes in 2017. The amendment banned executions on drug-related charges.