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A Tehran pharmacy has been shut down due to its noncompliance with the mandatory hijab law and a criminal case filed against its female owner as Iran enters its fourth month of unrest sparked by the death in police custody of a young woman arrested for "improperly" wearing the hijab.
Iran has reportedly freed scores of protesters and political prisoners in recent days under an amnesty announced by the supreme leader. But activists have described the limited amnesty as a "public relations stunt."
In latest case of Tehran's agents tracking --- and threatening --- exiles and diaspora, Australia disrupts plot to surveil a critic of the Iranian regime.
The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.
“This arrest was more like banditry and hostage-taking than the execution of a judicial sentence,” Panahi writes.