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Over 296,500 people have died of the novel Coronavirus in 543 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of May 23.
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Political prisoner Atena Daemi has sent a message out of Lakan Prison of Rasht rejecting the regime’s offer to ask for an amnesty. Defying the regime’s gesture, she said: I believe that unconditional release is the right of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. Mr. Hossein Daemi, Atena's father, tweeted on May 21, containing her daughter’s message from prison.
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Political prisoners Giti Pour-Fazel and Raheleh Ahmadi have been on hunger strike in Evin Prison since Monday, May 17, in solidarity with Saba Kord Afshari. Raheleh Ahmadi, Saba's mother is in Qarchak prison in dire condition. Raheleh Ahmadi is sentenced to 31 months in prison and has been incarcerated since February 15, 2020. She was arrested to put pressure on her daughter to make forced confessions.
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Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared is under maximum pressure by the Iranian regime's Ministry of Intelligence, 70 days after her exile to the Central Prison of Semnan. Her case is being followed up directly by the Intelligence Ministry. No one, even the assistant prosecutor who oversees the cases of political prisoners, is not allowed to interfere in Maryam Akbari’s case. The Intelligence Ministry does not allow granting any of her requests. Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared is deprived of the most fundamental rights of a prisoner, including having access to newspapers, medical treatment and prison leave. She was violently removed from Evin Prison and exiled to the Central Prison of Semnan on March 9, 2021. She is presently detained in the general ward of the Semnan Prison, where she does not have access to her personal belongings. Maryam has three daughters and is serving her 12th year in prison without a single day of leave. She was arrested on December 2009, after the tremendous uprising on December 27 of that year which shook the pillars of the regime. In June 2010, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed down a 15-year prison sentence for Moharebeh on the alleged charge of “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” a charge which Mrs. Akbari has never accepted. Maryam Akbari’s sister and a brother were executed during the massacre of political prisoners in summer of 1988. Two of her other brothers were executed during the mass executions in the early 1980s.
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The elderly mother of a young man(Ali Tamimi) killed by security forces during the nationwide uprising in November 2019 has been arrested. Mrs. Badrieh Hamidavi with at least 15 other people were were arrested between May 14 and 16, when a group of people gathered outside Mrs Hamidavi's home hailing her fallen son. Her other son, Mohammad Tamimi, had been shot and killed by security forces in 2012.
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