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    Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven more years in prison

    ByAssociated Press in Dubai February 8, 2026

    Women’s and human rights activist, arrested at a demonstration in December, is said to be on hunger strikeIran has sentenced the Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to more than seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, her su…

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    ‘I saw kids being shot, women, old people’: how a massacre unfolded in one Iranian city

    ByDeepa Parent and Tess McClure. Graphics by Harvey Symons February 6, 2026

    The Guardian has constructed a timeline for the terrible events of one night of protests in Rasht, based on first-hand accounts, video and photographsOn Thursday 8 January, Iran went dark. In the midst of massive national protests, the government shut …

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    Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

    ByKaren McVeigh February 4, 2026

    Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global rules-based orderThe world is in a “democratic recession” with almost three-quarters of the global population now living under autocratic rulers – levels not …

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    Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran’s protesters

    ByRobert Tait and Deepa Parent February 3, 2026

    Euphoric scenes are a snub to theocracy’s culture of piety, say analysts, and carry message of rebellion Iranians killed in recent protests that rocked the country have been laid to rest in boisterous funerals featuring loud pop music and dancing, app…

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    Calls grow in Iran for independent inquiry into protest death toll

    ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor February 1, 2026

    Pressure mounts after government said it would publish names of those killed during recent unrestCalls are growing inside Iran for an independent inquiry into the number of people killed during recent protests after the government said it would oversee…

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    EU designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation

    ByJennifer Rankin in Brussels January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

    ‘Any organisation that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,’ says Kaja Kallas The EU has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, ending years of division over the issue in respo…

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    ‘Very masculinist’: how Iran unrest felt different to 2022’s hijab protests

    ByRobert Tait January 29, 2026

    Previously popular ‘woman, life, freedom’ slogan ignored as son of former shah becomes focus of desperation for change As the nightly protests that recently gripped Iran got under way, familiar shouts of “death to the dictator” and “death to [Ayatollah…

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    Iran tries to confront ‘catastrophe’ of violent clampdown on protests

    ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor January 29, 2026

    Calls for independent external inquiry into brutal crackdown that some estimates suggest killed more than 30,000A deep and painful inquest is under way inside Iran as politicians, academics and the security establishment try to come to terms with what …

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    Iran accused of ‘campaign of revenge’ as doctors arrested for treating protesters

    ByDeepa Parent January 29, 2026

    US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of executionDoctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured duri…

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    Iran appears to ease internet blackout as cost of shutdown mounts

    ByAisha Down January 28, 2026

    Experts say uneven connectivity suggests regime is throttling and filtering data as losses said to hit $36m a dayIranian authorities appear to have relaxed – but not removed – internet restrictions, in what experts say is a sign of the mounting costs o…

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