South Asia Media Research Institute. All the News That's Unfit to Print, mainly from South Asia. Backup handles: @SAMRIBackup and @SReports2
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Two #Baloch men were killed when Iranian security forces opened fire on a vehicle at Khairabad junction in #Iranshahr County, Sistan Baluchestan on 4 Nov 2026. At least 6 relatives of the victims, who had gone to the hospital to inquire about their condition, were detained.
Iranian authorities executed 3 prisoners, including 2 #Baloch, in #Mashhad on drug charges, without allowing them a final visit with their families.
#Baloch account for 2-5% of population and at least 26% of all executions across #Iran from 2010-2026.
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Iranian authorities detained Afghan women’s rights activist Hedieh Sahebzadeh and her husband, Tareq Rasa, at the Qom deportation camp. Two civil activists face deportation from Iran and the risk of being returned to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
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Ahmed Kaballo, a former British parliamentary assistant who worked for Iran’s @PressTV before founding African Stream, an outlet accused of being secretly run by Russia’s @RT_com.
Kaballo now heads Sovereign Media which republishes Iranian state media content.
How does an assistant in a British MP’s office end up running an outlet that calls Iran’s murdered protesters armed rioters, takes a prize from Tehran, and is funded by an American heir now jailed in Madrid on charges that include dealings with Iran’s embassy?
The answer runs through a machine the Islamic Republic has spent decades building to carry its story abroad. Ahmed Kaballo is not at its center. He is one link, and the one to follow.
He worked at Press TV in London. He was paid through one of the British companies that kept the channel alive after Britain banned it, an office that ran on Tehran’s money and cash from the Iranian embassy. In the year he says he left, he was still sending it talent. Tehran’s media festival gave him a prize for African Stream, the outlet he says had nothing to do with Iran. He now runs Sovereign Media, a Nairobi “collective” that republishes Press TV and is paid for by Fergie Chambers’ Babochki Collective.
Kaballo is one link. There are others.
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OCHA #Yemen’s Ibrahim Al-Haddad discusses the difficult situation in #Taiz, where families face rising prices, reduced water supplies and overstretched hospitals, due to fighting between #Houthi and pro-government forces.
Speaking to @AlarabyTV, OCHA Yemen’s Ibrahim Al-Haddad discusses the impact of escalating fighting, the difficult situation in Taiz, where families face rising prices, reduced water supplies and overstretched hospitals, and the response 👇
Iran has sentenced Amirhossein Mousavi to death on charges of "corruption on earth" over his activity on X.
Mousavi posted on X under accounts named James Bi Din (meaning "James without faith" in Persian) @james_bidin.
#امیرحسین_موسوی
موکلم امیرحسین موسوی بابت اتهام افساد فیالارض از طریق فعالیت مجازی در اکانت توییتری جیمز بیدین به اعدام محکوم شد.
#امیرحسین_موسوی
Iran has sentenced Amirhossein Mousavi to death on charges of "corruption on earth" over his activity on X.
Mousavi posted on X under accounts named James Bi Din (meaning "James without faith" in Persian) @james_bidin.
#امیرحسین_موسوی
In July, 5 Afghan migrants were killed by Iranian border guards and 1 by Turkish border guards.
Later that month, 19 Afghans died of dehydration while trying to enter Iran.
In September, 17 Afghans, including 5 women and 6 children, died of thirst while trying to enter Iran.
4 #Afghan migrants were reportedly to death by Turkish border guards while attempting to enter #Turkey from #Iran.
In July, 5 Afghan migrants were killed by Iranian border guards and 1 by Turkish border guards.
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Another disgusting post from a disgusting person—someone who denied that the criminal Assad regime murdered Syrians with chemical weapons and now mocks the number of Iranian protesters killed by the criminal regime he supports.
#Iran has executed nearly 190 #Afghan citizens since 2024.
Most were sentenced to death in drug-related cases, while others faced charges including murder, espionage for #Israel and participation in anti-government protests in Iran.
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Iranian authorities executed two #Afghan nationals - Mobarak Mohammadi and Qasem Molla Amini - on drug charges.
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The problem with the caricature created around Islamists by Republicans in the US is that it completely deflects from the real threats and distortions created by real Islamists in our region. This is a real struggle: for women, minorities, free thinkers, etc. You made it a joke.
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This mockery of the number of Iranians slaughtered by the IRGC regime within days at the beginning of this year alone is the equivalent of when doubt was cast on Gaza numbers by claiming “according to numbers by the Hamas-run Gaza ministry of health…”
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Post-victory buyer’s remorse over a successful regime change
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Iranian MP Mohammad Bayat defended a proposal to impose fines of up to 10,000 euros on illegal migrants entering Iran.
محمد بیات، نماینده مجلس شورای اسلامی ایران، از طرح جریمه تا سقف ۱۰ هزار یورو برای ورودمهاجران فاقد اسناد اقامت در این کشور دفاع کرد.
او میگوید هدف از این تصمیم، جلوگیری از ورود بیضابطه مهاجران و ساماندهی وضعیت اقامت آنان است.
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Hedyeh Sahabzada, head of the Voice of #Afghan Women movement, and her husband were arrested by Iranian police while trying to leave #Iran.
According to her family, Ms. Sahabzada is now being held in police custody and faces the risk of deportation to Afghanistan.
نزدیکان هدیه صاحبزاده، مسئول جنبش صدای زنان افغانستان خبر دادند که او و همسرش هنگام تلاش برای خروج از ایران از سوی پولیس این کشور بازداشت شدهاند.
به گفته خانوادهاش، خانم صاحبزاده اکنون در بازداشتگاه پولیس بهسر میبرد و با خطر اخراج به افغانستان روبهرو است.
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21-year-old Iranian twins Taraneh and Romina Rahimi - one sentenced to death, the other to 25 years in prison for protesting their govt - have had their suit alleging torture and threats of rape dismissed and their lawyer jailed. The cousin who helped raise them tells me they now “look to the world to hear their voice.”