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Iran: Regime hangs 21 people, including 1 man in public, in 2-day period

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that 21 people have been hanged in Iran since Monday, one of which was in public. 

In the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, on Tuesday 17th May, six men were hanged collectively. These men were serving a prison sentence for drugs-related charges in Ward 15 of the prison.

Iran unleashes brutal backlash against protesters

The Iranian government has launched a violent crackdown on anti-government protests within the country. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, told senior security officials that the serious “threat”, caused by teachers, trade unionists, street vendors and truck drivers, represented a “high priority” need for further repressive measures.

Iranian prisoner of conscience, seriously ill after years of medical neglect, leading to kidney surgery

An Iranian prisoner of conscience is critically ill following kidney surgery.

Omid Kokabee, an experimental laser physicist at the University of Texas, had his right kidney removed on 22 April; he was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer after years of medical neglect.

Vienna: World powers meet to save Syria peace hopes

It has been reported in The Local that senior envoys from around the world are meeting again in Vienna on Tuesday with the aim of putting an end to the bloody civil war in Syria.

The chairs of the meeting are US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov – an odd combination mentions the journalist as they are “at loggerheads over much else in the world”.

Iran: Jafar Azimzadeh’s statement regarding the release of Ismail Abdi

Jafar Azimzadeh, an Iranian political prisoner and workers’ rights activist who has been on an indefinite hunger strike since the end of April has managed to send a statement out of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. His statement comments on the release on bail of fellow political prisoner Ismail Abdi, Secretary General of Iran’s Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA).

Syrian Network for Human Rights denounces Zarif’s participation in ISSG meeting

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that on Monday the Syrian Network for Human Rights denounced the invitation asking Javad Zarif, the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister, to join a meeting of the International Syrian Support Group (ISSG) in Vienna this week.

Iran regime has no choice but to accept “will” of Syrian people

The Iranian regime must yield to the Syrian’s people will to overthrow Assad, says the president of Syria’s democratic opposition coalition

The head of Syrian’s democratic opposition coalition has said that the Iranian regime will eventually have to comply with the Syrian people’s will for sovereignty and democracy.

Iran, Syria opposition leaders meet in Paris to discuss common fight against despotic regimes

Opposition leaders for Syria and Iran met at the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI) office in Paris on May 12, 2016 to pay tribute to Syrian martyrs and the people of Aleppo.

Recent protests in Iran against the mullahs’ regime

This is a summary of recent news about anti-regime protests in Iran reported on by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Monday, 16 May.

Saturday, May 14, 2016:

Students Protest in Sama University, Kermanshah

Kurdish political prisoners in Iran are attacked by prison guards

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has reported that “Black-clad prison guards have raided a Kurdish political prisoners’ ward in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison”, situated in the city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran. They beat the inmates and searched through their personal property.