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On Friday, October 8, freedom-loving Iranians in Canada demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver for World Day Against the Death Penalty. Iran, under the rule of the mullahs, has the highest execution rate in the world per capita, and the execution of juveniles eventhough contrary to international law, is done routinly. This year's demonstration is significant given the presence of Ibrahim Ra'isi as the president of the Iranian regime, one of the perpetrators of the 1988 Massacre of 30,000 political prisoners and the former head of the judiciary. Similar demonstrations by Iranian resistance supporters in the United States and Europe took place on the eve of October 10.

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Over 453,000 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. 10, 2021.

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A group of Kurdish women’s rights activists held a protest gathering outside the Department of Justice in Sanandaj, the capital of the Iranian Kurdistan province, on Wednesday, October 6. Their placards read: “No place is safe for women;” “We all are Faezeh;” “Everyone bears responsibility in the murder of women;” “No to murdering women.” Faezeh Maleki, 22, died at a hospital in Sanandaj, on Sunday, October 3, a day after 85% of her body burned in fire by her father. She was a young divorced woman who intended to get married again with the man of her choice. A choice her father, however, did not agree with. According to the latest reports, he imprisoned her in the toilet in a garden. Subsequently, he doused her with gas and set her on fire, on Saturday, October 2. https://tinyurl.com/9ncjwsjv

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Women’s rights activist Monireh Arabshahi had to report to Kachouii Prison in Karaj-Iran on October 4, 2021. She was on leave to follow up her medical treatment but returned to prison before completing her medical treatment. Monireh Arabshahi managed to receive a medical leave on May 3, 2021, by depositing a heavy bail of 500million Tomans. She returned to prison on July 23, after undergoing an operation on her thyroid gland. Her health deteriorated in prison, because of which prison authorities sent her to a civic hospital on July 31. Prison agents, however, returned her to prison the next day before being medically examined. Monireh and her daughter Yasaman Arabshahi are imprisoned for protesting to mandatory hijab.  https://tinyurl.com/5ectw27a

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According to Mr. Hossein Daemi's tweet, his imprisoned daughter Atena continues to remain deprived of her right to call home. The woman heading the women’s prison in Lakan Prison of Rasht, North of Iran, insists that Atena Daemi makes her calls in the presence of prison guards, an illegal demand that she refuses to accept. Mr. Daemi also said the head of women’s prison had threatened other inmates against making any contact with Atena. If they did, they would face new charges and be deprived of their minimum rights. According to Hossein Daemi, Atena’s lawyer has obtained judicial order and traveled to Rasht several times to visit Atena. Every time, however, the head of the women’s prison has insulted him and prevented his meeting.Atena Daemi, 32, began serving her five-year sentence in November 2016 in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. Atena Daemi, 32, began serving her five-year sentence in November 2016 in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. In 2018, Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced her to another jail sentence of 2 years and one month. Again, in July 2020, she received another sentence of 2 years and 74 lashes. https://tinyurl.com/ydu95r56

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Mahboubeh Rezaii, a political prisoner, has been sent to exile to the notorious Adelabad Prison of Shiraz soutwest of Iran in recent weeks. Her banishment is a reaction by the authorities of Bushehr Prison to Ms. Rezaii’s measure exposing the prison’s appalling conditions. She made an audio recording in which she talked about violence against women in prison and proposals of temporary marriages to inmates. Bushehr Prison authorities first transferred her to solitary confinement and forced her into exile in Adelabad Prison. https://tinyurl.com/vskf2bc