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Hundreds of political prisoners are sent to the US by Nicaragua
The US has said the announcement of the release of Americans from Iran and Venezuela at the same time was coincidental. This comes after Iran released an Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi and the US released seven Americans from Venezuela. In Nicaragua, the government released more than 200 political prisoners, many of which arrived in the…
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This is the first known execution of a prisoner arrested in the recent protests.
Iranian- American Siamak Namazi, who has been detained in Iran for seven years and was forced to return to prison on Wednesday, is also safe, his family’s lawyer Jared Genser said. The Iranian government executed two people after the death of a 23-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the “morality police”. Namazi had briefly…