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The visa case of Mehdi Nasiri — former editor-in-chief of state newspaper Kayhan under Khamenei in Iran and political deputy of the Policy Council for Friday Prayer Leaders — has reached Canadian immigration authorities, and his visa may soon be revoked. Shadi Sadr, a lawyer, journalist, and human rights advocate, recently revealed on her Instagram channel that two months ago her team submitted a detailed letter to Canadian officials calling for accountability of past and present officials of the Islamic Republic. “One of the authorities confirmed by email that they are reviewing our documents on Nasiri,” she said. Sadr emphasized that, under Canadian law, anyone who has held a senior position in the Islamic Republic since 2003 is barred from entering the country. “If a visa has been issued for such individuals, it must be canceled,” she added. Nasiri himself confirmed the news on his YouTube channel on Tuesday, August 19, announcing plans to launch a campaign in response. He also disclosed that the visa of his wife, Fereshteh Mazinani — who was due to travel again to Canada — has already been revoked. Two months ago, CBC Television aired a report on Nasiri. Nassiri, who entered Canada with the slogan “from Tajzadeh to Shahzadeh,” is now in Canada presenting himself as a monarchist activist.

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The appeals board for Administrative Violations at Iranian regime's Ministry of Education has issued disciplinary rulings against seven members of the Sanandaj Teachers’ Union. Among those sentenced are two female teachers. According to the final verdicts, Nasrin Karimi (with a master’s degree in sociology and 27 years of service) has been forced into forced retirement with a demotion of two professional ranks. Leila Zarei (with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and 30 years of service) has been dismissed from her position as vice-principal, forced into retirement, and demoted by one rank. Other union members — Majid Karimi, Ghias Nemati, Salah Hajimirzaei, Faisal Nouri, and Mohyeddin Reyhani — have received sentences ranging from temporary dismissal and expulsion from service to forced relocation and professional restrictions. https://tinyurl.com/53j5dtee

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On Wednesday morning August 20, a woman named Mahsa Akbari was executed by hanging in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. Just one day earlier, her husband was executed in public in the city of Beyram in Iran's Fars Province, in front of a crowd that included children. With this latest execution, the clerical regime has put five women to death between July 30 and August 20, within a span of only three weeks. The execution of Mahsa Akbari brings the total number of women executed in Iran in 2025 to 29. https://tinyurl.com/39m5cspm 

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In the 82nd consecutive week of the nationwide campaign “No to Execution Tuesdays”, prisoners in 49 facilities across Iran once again raised a united voice against the issuance and implementation of death sentences. What began as an initiative led by political prisoners in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj has now become one of the most significant platforms of resistance against capital punishment in Iran. Outside of the prisons, the families of the death row prisoners continue their activisties to hault executions. https://tinyurl.com/bdmvj5c4

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On Tue. Aug. 12, the 72 years old political prisiner Raheleh Rahemipour, a member of the 1980s justice-seeking families was transferred from Qarchak Prison in Varamin in Iran to a hospital after collapsinbg in prison. In recent weeks, Rahemipour had suffered repeated fainting spells. According to her family, these episodes began sporadically but had intensified in recent months, sometimes occurring several times a week. Mrs. Rahemipour, who suffers from a brain tumor, heart disease, and high blood pressure, was held in the grim conditions of Qarchak Prison. Rahemipour has been trying for years to clarify the truth about the disappearance of her brother Hossein and her nephew, who were imprisoned in the 1980s in Iran. https://tinyurl.com/3k4duys4

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On Monday, August 11, Sheida Kardgar, a 15-year-old girl from a village near the northern city of Babol in Iran's Mazandaran Province, was brutally stabbed to death by a man whose marriage proposal she had rejected. According to local sources, Sheida Kardgar had previously been harassed and pressured by the man. Her family had firmly opposed the marriage. Enraged by the refusal, the suitor confronted Sheida outside her grandmother’s home and attacked her with multiple knife blows, killing her on the spot. https://tinyurl.com/ymzeretn

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At dawn on Monday, August 11, a woman identified as Soudabeh Qassemzadeh was hanged alongside three men in Isfahan Central Prison. She was 45 years old and mother of 3 children. She'd been imprisoned for six years on charges of killing her husband. https://tinyurl.com/2s4abpfu

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Forough Khosravi, an elementary school teacher with a PhD in Education, was arrested on Tuesday, July 29, in the city of Behbahan, Khuzestan province in Iran, by agents of the IRGC Intelligence Organization and transferred to an undisclosed location. Her arrest came after a previous incident on June 20, when six IRGC intelligence agents  raided her home without her presence and without presenting any court warrant. During the raid, her phone and several personal items were confiscated. According to reports, Ms. Khosravi’s daughter was home at the time and witnessed the raid, which created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. https://tinyurl.com/2u22tcc5

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On Sunday July 27, two political prisoners, Massoumeh Asgari, a retired teacher, and Massoumeh Nassaji (Farah)62 years old, were sent to solitary confinement in Qarchak Prison (in Varamin, located southeast of Tehran-Iran) after protesting inhumane conditions inside the facility. They protesting the prison’s dire hygiene, poor nutrition, and ongoing threats from prison officials. Their transfer to solitary was a punitive measure ordered by prison authorities. https://tinyurl.com/jzs67uaj

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More than two weeks after her arrest, Fariba Hosseini, a 36-year-old dentist based in Shiraz-Iran, remains in complete legal uncertainty. She was arrested on June 21, 2025, while writing protest slogans and is currently being held in pretrial detention at Adelabad Prison on charges of “propaganda against the state.” In the early days of her detention, the presiding judge approved her release on 400 million tomans bail. However, despite her family having fully posted the bail, security officials blocked her release. In a further punitive move, the bail was arbitrarily raised to over 2 billion tomans—a sum beyond Ms. Hosseini’s financial means. https://tinyurl.com/36uc26sa

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A 37 year old Political prisoner Masoumeh Senobari and mother of a teenage daughter, had been identified as one of the leading voices behind anti-regime chants during the conclusion of an Ashura religious ceremony in the women’s ward of Fardis Prison in Iran. A group of female inmates chanted slogans such as “Death to Khamenei,” “Curse be upon Khomeini,” and “Salute to Hossein,” openly expressing their dissent toward the regime before the ceremony closed. In response to the protest, the head of the women’s ward, Zahra Kolivand, summoned Massoumeh to her office, where according to informed sources inside the prison, she was violently assaulted. Ms. Senobari reportedly returned to the ward with severe bruising on her face and body and was unable to stand without assistance. Masoumeh was arrested in 2022. https://tinyurl.com/mrxv54nd

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Lali Bameri, a 40-year-old Baluch woman and one of the victims of a deadly assault by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on the village of Gonich in Khash County, of Iran's Sistan and Balouchestan province, died in the early hours of Friday, July 4, in the hospital due to the severity of her injuries. Lali Bameri with the full name: Lal-Bibi Bameri, a mother of several children, succumbed to her wounds after three days in the intensive care unit of Khomeini Hospital in Khash. She had been critically wounded by gunfire during the IRGC raid and was kept alive only with the help of dialysis machines, as both her kidneys had failed due to direct bullet impact. Medical staff had described her condition as “critical and beyond recovery” from the outset. Lali Bameri was shot on Tuesday, July 1, during an IRGC raid on their village. In the same attack, another Baluch woman, Khan-Bibi Bameri, was killed by gunfire to the kidney, and at least eleven other women were injured. https://tinyurl.com/3kyy5zt4