Water shortage Iran protests turn deadly with security forces killing demonstrators

Iran HRM - July 18, 2021: Three days of Water shortage Iran protests in the southwestern Khuzestan, south Province have turned deadly, with the state security forces killing at least two protesters.

Ghasem Khozeiri, 17, who was shot and wounded by security forces during Friday protests in Kuta Abdullah, Ahvaz, died later at the hospital.

According to local reports, Mostafa Naeemawi, was shot and killed on the same day in the restive cities of Ahvaz and Shadegan.

The state-run IRNA News Agency confirmed a young man was killed and said “seditionists” shot Mostafa during in the protests. The regime uses the word seditionists to refer to protesters.

Judicial authorities arrest drapery shop owner and several female models

Iran HRM - July 12, 2021: Following the publication of a video from the opening of a drapery shop in which female models are present without hijab, Iran’s judiciary reported the arrest of some people.

On Sunday, July 11, a video of the ceremony was posted on social media, featuring a number of women in ballgowns as models.

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Mahabad said that five people including the shop owner and those who were present as models at the opening, have been arrested.

Mehrab Pourakbar told the state-run ILNA news agency that the five detainees were charged with “non-observance of customs and morals, unconventional propaganda and non-observance of religious norms.”

Iran International - July 15, 2021: A hardliner newspaper in Iran, Kayhan, financed and supervised by the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said Thursday that walking dogs in public places is a “fundamental problem” for the country.

Kayhan called walking dogs in public a product of “western lifestyle” among Iranians and demanded that judicial, police and local officials strongly confront the practice. 

Shiite clerics teach their followers that dogs are “Najes” or filthy and a good Muslim should not touch them or keep them as a pet.

In recent days police have started to confront people walking their dogs in streets and parks. In one incident which became viral on social media two police officers assaulted a dog owner and one even aimed his gun at the man.

Tortured Sharif University students still detained in high-security ward

 

Iran-HRM - July 5, 2021: Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of Tortured Sharif University students Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, provided more details about the hearing of the charges against the two, which was held in the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on Saturday, July 3.

Nili said that during the hearing, he requested the transfer of his clients from Security Ward 209 to the General Ward on Evin Prison.

Speaking with the state-run Emtedad Persian news site, Mostafa Nili said “Corruption on earth, assembly and collusion to act against national security and propaganda activities against the regime are the charges against Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, both of whom have denied all the charges.”

Nili added that during the hearing, they requested the transfer of his clients from Security Ward 209 to the General Ward, to which the judge replied that a decision will be made after review.

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