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Iran’s nationwide uprising marked its 199th day on Sunday April2, 2023. The uprising has spread in 282 cities across Iran with 750 people dead and 30,000 detainees. The names and identities of 675 people killed by the regime have been announced by the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. 

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Nahaleh Shahidi is a children’s rights activist and one of the Bahai citizens living in Karaj. Security forces arrested her in the train station of Kerman as she was heading back home on Monday, March 28, 2023. She was transferred to an undisclosed location. No information is available on her place of detention and the charges against Nahaleh Shahidi Yazdi. Nahaleh Shahidi Yazdi had been arrested once before in March 2020 for teaching earthquake-stricken children in Bam, Kerman. The Revolutionary Court of Kerman sentenced her to two years and one year of a suspended sentence. The Revolutionary Court of Isfahan condemned Parva Behdad to three years in prison, two years of ban on leaving the country, 24 million tomans of cash fine, and participating in ideological classes. Parva Behdad is one of the Bahai citizens living in Isfahan. She was arrested on November 14, 2022. After 21 days of detention in solitary confinement, she was transferred to the Dowlatabad Prison of Isfahan. Eventually, she was released on bail on December 18, 2022. https://tinyurl.com/mvrzyx7c

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In a press conference with the state media, mullah Hossein Jalali presented the details of a new Hijab Plan to be proposed to the parliament for adoption in Iran. Jalali said the new plan would be implemented through an intelligent system and not entail physical confrontation with women who do not observe the veil. Instead, it includes financial punishments ranging from half a million to three million tomans, cancellation of driver’s licenses and passports, ban on Internet use, etc. At a news conference on March 26, 2023, the member of the mullahs’ parliament from Rafsanjan and Anar said they had finalized the bill in 300 meetings with the National Cultural and Security Council. He claimed that the situation of the Hijab would be better than in the past. https://tinyurl.com/32wpa3yh