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• Iran detaining protesters being treated in hospitals as part of crackdown, says UN expert - By Olivia Le Poidevin and Parisa Hafezi GENEVA/DUBAI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A U.N. expert on Iran said on Monday she had received reports of protesters linked to nationwide demonstrations being removed
• Child among protesters sexually assaulted in Iran, rights group says - HRW and Amnesty warn that Tehran uses rape, sexual violence, and torture to suppress dissent, continuing a pattern of violence following previous protests. Content warning: This article contains references and descriptions of sexual violenc
• Hackers target Iran state TV's satellite transmission to broadcast exiled crown prince - Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” footage online showed early Monday, the
• What is HRANA, the US-based group behind Iran’s death toll figures? - Amid recent mass protests and an internet blackout, there have been conflicting death toll reports from Iran.
• Iran's traders, frustrated by economic losses, turn against clerics - By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran's bazaar merchants, the trader class who were the financial backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have turned against the clerics they helped bring
• Protests grow as Iran’s government makes meager offer amid tanking economy - Amnesty International says security forces’ raid on hospital in Ilam to seize protesters violates international law.
• Iranian security forces clash with protesters at Tehran’s grand bazaar - Nationwide protests continue to grow as rights groups accuse authorities of cracking down on demonstrators
• Trump says US will 'come to their rescue' if Iran kills protesters - President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States is "locked and loaded" to respond if Iran kills protesters, prompting Tehran to warn that intervention would destabilise the region.Trump said on his Truth Social platform that "i
• Protesters clash in Syria after deadly Alawite mosque bombing - Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 others during
• Guatemala declares state of emergency after armed attacks kill at least 5 - Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Sunday said he had declared a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after armed men attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads and hijacked buses, kill