{"id":210987,"date":"2018-11-01T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210987-iran-news-in-brief-october-18-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:49:14","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-october-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, October 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, October 18, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Z9RCuLH95d0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZ9RCuLH95d0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9RCuLH95d0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M30S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-10-18T10:38:16Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_Z9RCuLH95d0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZ9RCuLH95d0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, October 18, 2018<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z9RCuLH95d0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZ9RCuLH95d0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, October 18, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, October 18, 2018 Twitter says it found more than 10 million posts by Iran, Russia-backed accounts dating back to 2009 Twitter said Wednesday that it found more than 10 million posts by Iran and Russia-backed accounts dating back to 2009 \u2014 and it\u2019s releasing archives of the posts to the general public. Twitter had previously identified Iran and Russia as the source of fake accounts and coordinated misinformation campaigns, but had largely limited the scope to around the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the upcoming midterm elections. The social media site will now shed light on the accounts\u2019 actions starting years earlier. Iran Sentences Protesters to Heavy Prison Terms New reports indicate the Iranian judiciary is resorting to issuing heavy sentences against protesters and political prisoners. The General Prosecutor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province said that a court had sentenced six people to prison for writing slogans on walls and ripping up images of Iranian officials, according to the state-run ISNA news agency. \u201cThe six-person group aiding the Arrogance were affiliated with the Nefagh Group who got their orders from outside of the country and carried out destructive actions against the System,\u201d Gholamreza Mazareie said. In yet another case, the regime\u2019s courts in the city of Arak, central Iran, issued a total of six years behind bars and 444 lashes for six protesters arrested during the December\/January uprising that spread to over 140 cities across the country. These individuals are facing charges such as \u201cdisrupting public order and peace by taking part in illegal rallies.\u201d Under Pressure from Security Forces, Samsung Company Fires Baha\u2019i Employee In continued efforts to marginalize the Iranian Baha\u2019i community, Yazd security officials put pressure on the administrator of a Samsung subsidiary to fire marketing representative Sahar Rouhani on the grounds of her faith. Rouhani was already being commended by Samsung executives as one of the best employees in the company after working there for little more than a year. Rouhani\u2019s university photography studies were cut short for the same reason in 2009. She was expelled from the university in the middle of the fourth semester, after paying full tuition fees, because of being Baha\u2019i. Maltreatment Results in Hunger Strike of 56 Urmia Prisoners Fifty-six youth and political prisoners declared the launch of a hunger strike on October 17th in defense of their ward mates, many of whom were recently victims of vicious assaults by authorities. The strikers hail from Ward 12, designated for political prisoners, and the youth ward. On October 15th, more than 50 special agents attacked Ward 12, breaking prisoners\u2019 bones and teeth. 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She was expelled from the university in the middle of the fourth semester, after paying full tuition fees, because of being Baha\u2019i.Maltreatment Results in Hunger Strike of 56 Urmia PrisonersFifty-six youth and political prisoners declared the launch of a hunger strike on October 17th in defense of their ward mates, many of whom were recently victims of vicious assaults by authorities.The strikers hail from Ward 12, designated for political prisoners, and the youth ward.On October 15th, more than 50 special agents attacked Ward 12, breaking prisoners\u2019 bones and teeth. 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