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On Sunday June 30, marked the second day of the Free Iran 2024 Global Summit. World leaders, along with lawmakers and human rights activists from across four continents, will address the summit. This event powerfully resonates with the historic ‘No’ voiced by the Iranian people, who boycotted the regime’s sham elections this week, echoing their cry for freedom in Iran. The international event will be broadcast live to Iran, where thousands of PMOI-led Resistance Units and millions of Iranians, who are fed up with the oppressive regime, will watch as delegates from around the world express their solidarity and commitment to effective policy change in their home countries. Against the backdrop of support from 137 world leaders and over 4,000 legislators who endorse the Iranian people’s aspiration for regime change, this event signifies a new resolve to end appeasement with Tehran and to recognize a democratic and free Iran. Thousands of Iranians from all walks of life and from far and near gathered in Berlin-Germany on Sat. June 29 in support of the Iranian resistance National Council of Resistance of Iran and its main group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. Canada's deligatgion included: Mr. Stephen Harper, Mr. John Baird, Ms. Judy Sgro,... https://tinyurl.com/2hmfdzbs

Security forces raided the residence of Ms. Mandana Karimi Bakhtiari on June 10, and took her to the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Iran. Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran had earlier sentenced Ms. Karimi Bakhtiari to six years of imprisonment on charges including disseminating “propaganda against the state,” and “assembly and collusion to disrupt national security.” She had been released on bail, but was arrested on June 10, by agents of the office of Implementation of Verdicts in Tehran’s District 33. https://tinyurl.com/2ptrf5jv

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Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared is facing a daunting new challenge as authorities move to seize her family’s property, reports the Sharq News Agency. The Executive Headquarters of Farman-e Imam (Khomeini’s Order) has launched a bid to confiscate her assets. This development comes as Maryam Akbari Monfared nears the end of a 15-year prison sentence set to conclude in December 2024. Her defense lawyer, Mr. Hossein Taj, says: “The principle of ‘the personal nature of crimes and punishments,’ recognized in jurisprudence, Sharia, international law, and the Iranian Penal Code, stipulates that punishment should be strictly individual and should not extend to relatives. We urge the honorable court to reject the headquarters’ claims under Article 49, preserving justice and fairness in the legal process.” Maryam was born on December 14, 1975, and is the mother of three daughters. She was taken to Evin prison “to provide some explanations” at midnight of December 29, 2009, without being able to say goodbye to her daughters. She's been in prison since, without a day of leave. She was incarcerated because she seeks justice for four of her siblings executed in the 1980s. Her sister, Roghiyeh, had a little daughter when she was sent to the gallows among the prisoners massacred in the summer of 1988. https://tinyurl.com/msdvr2e7

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Houra Nikbakht, a university instructor and a renowned women’s rights activist and the publisher and managing editor of “Mashq-e Barabari (Equality Homework)” publications, has been detained in the women’s ward of Evin Prison since June 12. Security forces arrested Houra Nikbakht after she reported to the Prosecutor’s Office of District 33 in Tehran-Iran. She had previously posted her summons on her X account, revealing that she was accused of insulting Ali Khamenei and disseminating propaganda against the state. https://tinyurl.com/5n8db7zb