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Immigration of nurses is “no longer a problem but teetering on the brink of a crisis,” said Abol Qassem Talebi, a Supreme Council of Medical Organization member in Iran. In an interview with Radio Salamat, on March 11, Talebi said while the world average is three nurses per hospital bed, this average in Iran is less than one-third of the world standard. Currently, there are 240,000 nurses in Iran. Talebli said that even if they recruit the same number of nurses, Iran will still lag the world standard. He said nearly 3,000 nurses emigrate from Iran every year. While confirming the number of nurses emigrating from Iran, the Nursing Organization’s general director said that 6,000 nurses are retired yearly.
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More than 60 Iranian current and former political prisoners and women activists signed a statement in support of Maryam Akbari Monfared, stressing that this political prisoner has been imprisoned for 5107 days without the right to leave. In parts of their statement, they wrote: She is one of the longest-held female political prisoners in Iran. She is the youngest surviving member of a family that has witnessed the imprisonment, torture, and execution of her family members since childhood. One sister and three of her brothers were killed under torture or executed without being sentenced to death. She has also witnessed the imprisonment and death of her bereaved mother. Throughout these years, she has consistently faced myriad pressures and restrictions, including being denied even a single day off. Some of us, the signatories of this letter, have been by her side for years or months, and yet, we have only witnessed a fraction of the suffering and oppression endured by Maryam and her family over decades. Maryam, a mother of three children, has been deprived of living with them for many years. Nevertheless, she remains resolute, refusing to yield to the corrosive effects of imprisonment….
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Three times the remarks of political prisoner Shabnam Madadzadeh were interrupted by the Iranian regime’s representative during the UN Human Rights Council, within 90 seconds. This interruption was due to her use of the term “regime,” refraining from using the title “Islamic Republic,” and exposing regime’s “crimes against humanity.” On Monday afternoon, March 18, at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva, following the report of the International Fact-Finding Committee on the Iranian regime and the speeches of the Committee members, government representatives, and non-governmental organizations addressed the report. This report, for the first time, recognized the crimes of the Iranian regime as “crimes against humanity.”
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Security forces in Isfahan-Iran arrested the 24 year Maryam Khalili on Thursday, March 14, and took her away to an undisclosed location. Maryam who is also known as Marzieh Khalili had been repeatedly summoned by the judicial authorities and interrogated. She faces charges of disseminating propaganda against the state, insulting the leader, and insulting the sanctities. Her trial will be held in May at one of the branches of the Revolutionary Court of Isfahan. So far, there is no information available on her place of detention or the reasons for her arrest. In other news, Sanaz JahanTigh has been detained for six months since her arrest without standing trial. The authorities have turned down her family’s request for her temporary release on bail. Sanaz, 30 years old, is from Qaemshahr, in Mazandaran Province. She was arrested in Sari, the capital of Mazandaran on September 21, 2022. She was subsequently transferred to the Prison of Qaemshahr and finally released on bail on November 2.
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