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It's been almost a month since the nurses in Iran started their national wide protests. They are bringing to light the dire working conditions and mounting frustrations within the country’s healthcare system. From Mashhad to Shiraz, Bushehr to Yasuj, these protests have become a powerful cry for help from those who have long been the unsung heroes in Iran’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The nurses, who once stood at the frontline of the global health crisis, are now fighting for their own survival in a system that has seemingly turned a blind eye to their plight. At the heart of the protests are demands for the fair implementation of the Tariff Plan for Nursing Services, a law passed in 2006 that has yet to be justly enforced.
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Two students from prominent Iranian universities, Yekta Mirzaei of Tehran University and Reyhaneh Ebrahimi Vandi of Al-Zahra University, have been temporarily suspended from their studies following disciplinary actions taken by their respective institutions. Their crimes were failing to observe the mandatory hijab, Insulting national or Islamic values, and causing chaos and disturbance on campus and spreding false information.
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Soada Khadirzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been held in the women’s ward of Urmia Central Prison for the past two years, ten months, and twelve days. She gave birth to her daughter Ala who is now 2 years old. Soada was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison in 2022. She's been charged with: complicity in the murder of a member of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.
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On August 24, an international conference, titled “Crimes Against Humanity: Time for Accountability and an End to Impunity,” featured former UN officials, prominent legal experts, and human rights advocates who underscored the need for justice for victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran. The event, which included participation from Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, highlighted ongoing efforts to hold Iranian regime officials accountable for past and present atrocities. Professor Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran from 2018 to 2024, presented a compelling report detailing the Iranian regime’s atrocity crimes, including the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, and called for urgent international action to hold the perpetrators accountable. Following his final report as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the Iranian regime has launched a vehement series of attacks against him. Released in July at the end of his six-year mandate, Rehman’s report highlights the systematic and widespread atrocities committed by Iranian authorities between 1979 and 1988, including the extrajudicial killing of thousands of political prisoners, particularly members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (PMOI/MEK). He categorizes these actions as crimes against humanity and genocide driven by a state policy aimed at eliminating perceived religious enemies of the theocratic regime.
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