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Thursday Dec. 18, was the ninety-forth day of protests in Iran. The protests that has developed in to a revolution has been registered in more than 282 cities with 700 Killed and 30,000 arrests. The names of 580 of the martyrs have been announced by the main Iranian opposition PMOI People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

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A young woman recently released on temporary leave from a detention center revealed the regime’s psychological torture of young people, encouraging them to commit suicide. She said the authorities force inmates to take some pills without telling them what they are. She acknowledged that she had been sexually assaulted but refrained from explaining the details. https://tinyurl.com/2s4jzrd7

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Another physician, Dr. Ayda Rostami, has been killed by security forces in Tehran. On Monday, December 12, 2022, Dr. Ayda Rostami called her mother at 7 p.m. from Chamran Hospital, where she worked. She asked her mother whether she needed something to buy on her way home. But she did not return home. On Tuesday, the police station in Tehran’s Ekbatan district called the family of Dr. Ayda Rostami and told them to go to the station. There, they gave them a letter indicating that she had been killed in an accident and that they should go to the Forensics Office to receive her body. The family found her body with a smashed face, a broken arm, and an enucleated left eye. Dr. Ayda Rostami and several medical students visited and treated injured protesters at home. Since the regime removes injured protesters from hospitals and takes them to prison, nobody goes to the hospital anymore. It is speculated that they had been identified and kidnapped. https://tinyurl.com/28ebcjem

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Residents celebrate their victory in forcing the regime to release 16 year old Soniya Sharifi, a protester sentenced to death on charges of "Moharebeh" or(waging war on God). According to the clerical regime’s Sharia law, those charged with Moharebeh can be punished by death.

Security forces arrested Sonia Sharifi in the city of Abdanan, Ilam, on November 19 for participating in anti-regime protests. They transferred her to the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Ilam. Sonia had been deprived of access to a lawyer. One of the Revolutionary Court branches had arraigned Sonia Sharifi on her charges. Security forces pressured her to make false confessions and said that she had made Molotov Cocktails and written slogans on walls. Sonia Sharifi, a high school student, was detained in the Reform and Rehabilitation Center of Ilam. https://rb.gy/pxjzeq

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On December 15, the United Nations

General Assembly adopted the sixty-ninth United Nations resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran by 80 votes in favor and only 29 against. The efforts of the regime’s allies and other human rights violators to prevent the adoption of the resolution failed. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said: Despite all its shortcomings, this resolution clearly shows that this regime egregiously violates almost all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and many other international laws and treaties. She also welcomed the expulsion of the Iran's misogynist regime from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which the members voted on Wed, Dec 14, on expel the Iranian regime from this UN body. Mrs. Rajavi noted that the regime, which is a stain on contemporary humanity, must be expelled from the United Nations and its other agencies and institutions. She emphasized that there is no justification for economic, political, and diplomatic relations with the regime. As such, its embassies must be shut down and the agents of its Ministry of Intelligence and other espionage and suppressive agencies must be expelled. https://rb.gy/pccm4o