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Over 466,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Thursday Oct. 28, 2021.

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Fearing the outbreak of protests on the eve of the second anniversary of the November 2019 uprising, the clerical regime has arrested and imprisoned a number of supporters of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Agents of the Intelligence Ministry in Rasht, the capital of the northern Gilan Province, arrested a group of supporters of the PMOI/MEK and former political prisoners and transferred them to the Lakan Prison of Rasht. https://tinyurl.com/7j5rykd5

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Susan Rezaiipour hanged in Qazvin; the 122nd woman executed since 2013. Susan Rezaiipour was hanged in the Central Prison of Qazvin at dawn on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. Susan Rezaiipour is among the women who are victims of forced early marriages and domestic violence. She acted in self-defense when she murdered her husband six years ago. Susan Rezaiipour was married by force to her cousin, whom she did not love. In her confessions, Susan said her husband was an alcoholic who was drunk from 3 p.m. He battered her every day, something that forced her to commit murder. https://tinyurl.com/yvs5s9xn

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Soheila Abedi, 32, a victim of early marriage, is sentenced to death for murdering her husband in 2015. Soheila Abedi was married at age 15 and presently is detained in the Reform and Rehabilitation Center (women’s ward) of the Prison of Sanandaj. She is told that if she cannot obtain the consent of the victim’s family, she will be executed in a month. Iran under the rule of mullahs holds the world record for the execution of women and the per capita execution rate. https://tinyurl.com/yb5u6m5y

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Tehran’s Revolutionary Court issued a ruling according to which Mahboubeh Farahzadi is fined. Her mobile phone will be confiscated and she is banned from participating in gatherings and meetings for two years. The court convened on Tuesday, October 12, to examine the charges leveled against Mrs. Farahzadi, a teachers’ rights activist and a member of the Voice of Iranian Women Association (Neda-ye Zanan-e Iran). Mrs. Farahzadi was informed of the ruling on October 18. She must pay 1.5 million Tomans in cash. The court will confiscate her mobile phone and ban her from participating in gatherings and meetings for two years. https://tinyurl.com/hftnx5rs

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Imprisoned and retired teacher and mother of 6 children Nosrat Beheshti has started a hunger strike in Vakilabad Prison of Mashhad since October 24, in protest of her temporary detention and unacceptable charges leveled against her. She has declared that she has also stopped talking until her demands are met. She said Vakilabad prison authorities are responsible for her life. She demands to be released and exonerated from all charges against her. She was arrested on Aug. 4, 2021. Nosrat is one of the 14 signatories of a letter demanding resignation of the clerical regime’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. https://tinyurl.com/52chhh8f

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Another female political prisoner has gone on a hunger strike since October 18, 2021. Mahin Akbari was among the supporters of the Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who were arrested and imprisoned in Rasht North of Iran in September. Her sentence expired on October 7, yet the authorities have extended her sentence for another year because she refused to ask for pardon from the mullahs’ supreme leader. https://tinyurl.com/nnhnkuzk

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Political prisoner Nejat Anvar-Hamidi is at imminent risk of blindness in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz-Iran. She is presently in a severe physical condition and bleeding from both eyes. On the orders of the Ministry of Intelligence, prison authorities prevent Ms. Anvar-Hamidi from receiving medical treatment even when there is an imminent risk of blindness for her. She had previously contracted the Covid-19 during her detention. Nejat Anvar-Hamidi, 63, is a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). She was arrested for supporting the organization in March 2019 and transferred to Sepidar Prison. In addition to her eye condition, she suffers from chronic headaches since her time in prison in the 1980s. https://tinyurl.com/mcb2bujn