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  Iranian musicians, filmmaker at risk of arrest — Amnesty Urgent Actions

  http://ua.amnesty.ch/urgent-actions/2016/02/041-16/041-16-1?ua_language=en

  Iranian musicians Mehdi Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian, have had their prison sentences upheld by an appeal court in Tehran. They are at imminent risk of arrest. If jailed, they will be prisoners of conscience.

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  Academics detained for signing peace appeal — Amnesty Urgent Actions

  http://ua.amnesty.ch/urgent-actions/2016/04/078-16

  On 15 March three academics who signed an appeal for peace in January 2016 were charged with “making propaganda for a terrorist organization”. If convicted they face up to seven and a half years’ imprisonment. A fourth academic was detained on 31 March for…

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