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A court in northern Iran has sentenced two student activists to a total of 72 lashes.
The Shahroud Criminal Court has sentenced 25-year-old Milad Nazeri and 26-year-old Seyed Shabir Hosseini Nik to a total of 72 lashes for their social media posts.
The two activists are students at Shahroud University of Technology Central Campus in northern Iran.
According to the verdict which was initially issued on December 29, 2020, the two student activists were sentenced to 36 lashes each for “participation in spreading lies with the intention of disturbing public opinion through the Telegram channel of the University’s Student Association”.
Mohammad Ali Kamfiroozi, the lawyer of the two student activists, in a tweet said that the sentence had been finalized in recent days.
He said their case has been ongoing for three years.
According to Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi, the lashing sentence was finalized despite the fact that after three years, they were not officially charged, and it is not clear what “lies” were spread by the students.

Iran’s pensioners and retirees held their fourth round of nationwide protests on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in 22 cities around the country. They called for the boycott of the regime’s sham presidential elections.

In Tehran, Iran’s pensioners and retirees including many women marched from the mullahs’ parliament to the Department of Budget, with chants of: “People join us, our pain is your pain.”

Iran’s retirees in Karaj

They also chanted: “We will not vote anymore, we have not seen any justice,” “Only by taking to the street we can obtain our rights,” “Our baskets are empty, enough of oppression,” “Enough of hollow promises, our baskets are empty,” and “We will not vote anymore, we have heard enough lies.”

Iranian authorities have sentenced two protesters arrested during the November 2019 anti-government protests that swept across Iran.
Jalal Namdari and Saeed Khaledi, were sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison on the charges of participating in the protests that erupted that erupted in November 2019 over gasoline prices.
Based on the court’s verdict, Khaledi is sentenced to three years in prison for “acting against the national security and cooperation with dissident opposition groups” and another year for “spreading propaganda against the establishment.”

Baha’i citizens in Iran are facing a new wave of arrests and raids on their homes in several cities across the country.
In the past days, dozens of Baha’i citizens have been detained or summoned to begin their prison terms over their religious faith. Some have been harassed by the state security forces who raided and searched their homes.
On March 27, five Bahai women were summoned to serve their prison terms in Mashhad, northeastern Iran. They were told to present themselves within 10 days to serve their sentences. The five women were identified as Nika Pakzadan, Faraneh Daneshgari, Sanaz Eshaghi, Nekisa Hajipour, and Naghmeh Zabihian.
In October 2020, the five Iranian Bahai women were sentenced to one year of prison each by the 3rd Branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, also upheld by an appeals court, for “spreading propaganda against the state by being Bahai”.

18 Jailed dissidents at Raja’i Shahr Prison of Karaj wrote an open letter on March 21, protesting the exile of political prisoners and opening new cases against them.

The letter, a copy of which was sent to Iran Human Rights Monitor, states: “during the last months, despite all the claims by the highest judiciary authorities about complying with the rights of the political prisoner, what is really happening on daily basis, not only is not a bit of improvement but also they have intensified suppression by making the prisoners conditions even more inhumane.

Their aim is to intimidate people of Iran and political activists to comply with their suppressive policies by making their conditions at prison even worse.

They put pressure on the prisoners and harass their family by transferring them to solitary confinement, offending and humiliating, beating, opening new cases against them and issuing new sentences, exiling them to far away prisons. These suppressive measures and harassments have increased during the last few months.

Iranians began their New Year today on March 20. Mothers of political prisoners and executed political prisoners celebrated the New Year near prisons or by the side of their children’s tombs.

Farangis Mazloum, mother of political prisoner Soheil Arabi, and mother of political prisoner Arsham Rezaii, celebrated the New Year near Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. Mrs. Mazloum said they were not allowed to set-up their Haft-seen near the prison, so they had to do it a little farther.

Farangis Mazloum congratulated all Iranians in Iran and abroad and expressed her wish that the upcoming year be the year of Iran’s freedom. She said, “I hope that next year, we would all be together, and all Iranians could live together in happiness and freedom.”

The IRGC forces opened fire on a car on Saturday, killing a child and wonding a woman.

The minor who was killed in Rask Country, southeast Iran, was identified as Younes Yazdanshenas. The woman who is the minor’s aunt, has been identified as Nour Bibi.

According to the Baloch Campaign website, the two were going for medical errands when the police opened fire on them after they passed a checkpoint. The report said that both were transferred to the Chabahar hospital but Younes died due to the severity of his wounds and blood loss.

There are almost daily reports of IRGC and security forces opening fire with impunity, injuring and killing innocent locals in the southeastern cities of Iran.

Last week, police opened fire on Baluch citizens on March 7 and March 8 in the southeastern cities of Minab and Mirjaveh.

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has been abruptly transferred from the women’s ward of Evin Prison to the Prison of Semnan.

Reports from the women’s ward of Evin Prison indicate that her cellmates intervened to prevent her relocation. But prison guards violently broke into the ward and forcibly took her out.

Maryam Akbari Monfared has been in prison since December 2009 without a single day of furlough. She has been deprived of access to medical treatment.

She has already served nearly 11 years in prison and should have been eligible for release since two years ago.

A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced four followers of the Baha’i faith to a total of 12 years in prison.

The 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mona Mehrabi, Elham Kerempisheh, Afsaneh Yadegar Ardestani and Ehsanollah Yadegar Ardestani to a total of 12 years of prison.

The four men and women were tried in absentia in 2019 and sentenced to a total of 20 years. The sentence was later reduced to 3 years of prison for each person.

The four Bahai citizens were charged with “membership in illegal organizations which are threats to national security.”