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On Wednesday evening, August 20, outside a café in a commercial center of Fasa in Iran's Fars province, a female Hijab patrol, confronted 2 teenagers under the pretext of “promoting virtue and forbidding vice”—a state-sanctioned concept used to justify interference in personal dress and behavior. The intervention quickly turned into a heated altercation, where the public supported the two teenage girls. According to the Prosecutor General of Fars Province, a judicial case was opened against the two teenage girls, who were arrested, formally charged, and transferred to the Shiraz Juvenile Detention and Correctional Center. Authorities also confirmed that on Wednesday, August 27, the individual who filmed and shared the video was detained. As part of the crackdown, the café where the confrontation occurred was sealed by judicial order. Officials further announced that investigations are underway to identify other individuals present at the scene, accusing them of “encouraging and inciting” the teenagers.
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On Monday night, August 25, a group of female students at Shiraz University in Iran staged a protest for the second time in response to ongoing water and power outages in their dormitories. The demonstration, which lasted well past midnight, quickly evolved into an anti-government rally as female students at Shiraz University chanted slogans demanding their basic rights. They chanted:
“Students, raise your voice, demand your rights!”
“Students may die but will never accept humiliation!”
“Water, electricity, life — these are our basic rights!”
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Tina Delju, a university lecturer, political science graduate, and social activist from Rasht, has once again been sentenced to prison by the Iranian judiciary. According to a ruling issued by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht, she has been sentenced to one year in prison on charges of "propaganda against the state". Tina Delju has a history of multiple convictions. In a similar case before the same court, she had previously been sentenced to one year in prison and was released after serving 40 days in detention under electronic monitoring. The university lecturer had also faced a separate seven-month prison sentence on charges of “spreading false information,” a sentence she completed before being released.
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In the 83rd week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign, prisoners in 50 prisons across Iran launched a hunger strike on Tuesday, August 26, to denounce the regime’s escalating wave of executions. Inmates from Dehdasht Prison joined the movement this week. The prisoners’ statement in the 83rd week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign declares: “We call on all international organizations, human rights defenders, and conscientious individuals to confront this machinery of death and amplify the voices of the Iranian people rising against executions". The statistics remain alarming with 166 people executed in Iran since July 23. At least two prisoners were publicly hanged in the cities of Kordkuy and Beyram Larstan, as a deliberate effort to normalize violence and humiliate society. The parents of political prisoners facing the death penalty have been consistently protesting on Tuesdays, despite relentless security pressures and judicial threats. They demand that the executions of their children be halted, and political prisoners be freed. Holding the pictures of their loved ones, they cry out, “No to executions” and “Our children are innocent — stop the executions.”
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