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English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   According to the Hengaw human rights organisation, in July 2025, at least 14 women were murdered in cities across Iran, most at the hands of relatives, including their husbands. The data shows that three women were killed by their husbands, two by former husbands, two by brothers-in-law, three by brothers, two by boyfriends, and one by an uncle. The killer of one victim has yet to be identified. Hengaw …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   The son of Lindsey and Craig Forman, a British couple imprisoned in Iran, has reported that they have spoken with their family for the first time in seven months. Both 52 years old, Lindsey and Craig Forman were arrested on 3 January 2025 in Kerman during a motorcycle journey from Armenia to Pakistan. The Islamic Republic has accused them of espionage. Everyone knows the James Bond story – the …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   A boat carrying 150 migrants sank off the coast of Yemen; at least 60 died and dozens are missing. Meanwhile, leaders of European and North American governments sit around grand negotiating tables, toasting each other with champagne while debating how to “solve” the world’s problems. The migration crisis is one of the greatest of these. Hundreds of thousands from the world’s corners – battered by poverty, war, drought and …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   Mizan News Agency, affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, has reported the execution at dawn on Wednesday 6 August of two prisoners: Rouzbeh Vadi, accused of “espionage and intelligence cooperation” with Israel, and Mehdi Asgharzadeh, accused of membership in the group known as ISIS. While Mossad’s professional spies are planting bombs in the bedroom of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and infiltrating the heart of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus, the regime …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   A video circulating on social media shows a man in Gachsaran kicking an unveiled woman to the ground. The force of the blow, visible in the footage, is severe enough to cause serious injury. It is clear from the video that the assailant is wearing Basij trousers. The woman’s ‘crime’ is, of course, being unveiled. Once again, this video proves to the Iranian people that compulsory hijab is the …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   The Jordanian army has announced that, in coordination with several countries, it has delivered seven air shipments containing 61 tonnes of aid to Gaza. According to the statement, the operation involved aircraft from Jordan, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Belgium. Sixty-one tonnes of aid from five governments – enough, at best, to meet the needs of 2,000 people for a week. That is, if there is electricity, …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   A court of the regime in Zahedan has sentenced two young protesters in the Mahsa uprising – Mohammad Darvish-Narouei, 22, and Yasin Kebdani, 21 – to death on charges of moharebeh (“enmity against God”) and efsad fel-arz (“corruption on earth”). According to the Hengaw news site, Benyamin Kouhkan, a teenager arrested during the 2022 protests at the age of 16, is also being held in solitary confinement without a …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-8 August 2025-No26   Political prisoners who had been transferred to Greater Tehran Prison after the Israeli attack on Evin Prison have been returned there in the early hours of Friday, 8 August. All have been moved to Ward 7. The Mehdi Mahmoudian channel put their number at more than 600. Evin Prison occupies a singular place in Iran’s political history. It is not merely a prison holding a certain number of political …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-1 August 2025-No25   A report from the BBC reads: “A toddler lies still, face down, in a street in Gaza City. Her legs are curled, her head turned to one side – as if asleep. A man lies next to her on the ground. He reaches out, gently touches her side, and then, as life drains from him, his hand collapses onto the asphalt. Mohammad Majdalawi and his two-year-old daughter, Layan, were …

English Journal is published on Fridays PDF-English Journal-1 August 2025-No25   According to UN figures, at least 612 people were executed in the first half of 2025 in Iran –more than double the number recorded over the same period in 2024. Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has described the surge in executions as indicative of how “deeply disturbing the situation has become and the urgent need for an immediate moratorium in the country on the use …