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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was visiting Qatar on Thursday to meet leaders of Tehran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, a ministry statement said.

Iran faced global criticism at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday, as member nations denounced the country’s treatment of women, crackdown on dissent, and widespread use of the death penalty.

Two Kurdish female activists, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today.

Hossein Hosseini, a civil activist from Iranian Kurdistan, has been arrested by Turkish police and transferred to a deportation camp in Muğla, where he faces the threat of being handed over to Iranian security forces.

A confidential source within the leadership of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) told Avatoday that the party’s leader Bafel Talabani orchestrated the latest Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Monday missile attack on Erbil.

An American-Iranian national said the Islamic Republic’s intelligence agents abducted, tortured and raped his wife and their 18-years-old son several times between 2020 and 2021. 

Dozens of people took the streets in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Friday after a suspicious death of Mahsa Amini.

Komala Party of Iranaian Kurdistan, a leftist opposition party announced on Sunday that several of its members have been arrested in Urmia.

Turkish attributed bombardment on a touristic location in Zaxo, in the Kurdistan Region’s Dohuk province on Wednesday killed nine and injured dozens of others. 

Four confirmed cases of tuberculosis among prisoners in Iran's Tehran province are sparking fears of a possible outbreak in the prison known for its cramped conditions and inadequate healthcare.