October 29, 2026 at 19:00 on Liberty cafe Lisbon (Rua da Esperança, 21, Lisboa) there will be a 📖 Returning the Names
🙋 184th Weekly protest
Executions in Iran continue. A lawyer for a political prisoner. Returning the Names in Lisbon.
You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is October 17th, 2:30 PM.
On October 16, British cellist and influencer Ryan Williams spoke about an Iranian woman named Ghazaleh who is about to be deported from Denmark to Iran, where she will face an execution.
www.facebook.com/61593703697930/videos/ghazaleh-is-about-to-get-deported-back-to-iran-where-she-faces-execution-please-/2173557616562173/
He did not give her last name, details of the case or a date, but asked anyone with liaisons in Denmark to get in touch with musician Cyrus Razavi.
www.instagram.com/cyrus.razavi_
On September 20, the human rights agency HRANA reported that 23-year-old student Najmeh Amini said in an audio message from a prison in Mashhad that she had been sentenced to death on September 16. She asked the U.N. and human rights defenders to review her case and ensure her right to a fair trial. She was tried on charges of "assembly and collusion against national security" and "insulting sacred beliefs and the Imams."
www.en-hrana.org/najmeh-amini-from-vakilabad-prison-in-mashhad-i-have-been-sentenced-to-death/
The Supreme Court still must confirm the sentence. Human rights defenders fear it could also set a precedent for executions over opinions expressed online.
iranhr.net/en/articles/9095/
On October 13, Amnesty International reported that five participants in the January protests had been executed in Iran over the week from September 30 to October 5.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/10/iran-five-protest-related-arbitrary-executions-in-one-week-must-spur-global-action/
t.me/endoflaw/3985 A campaign to raise 140,000 rubles has been launched on the mutual aid platform Zaodno, but less than 30 percent has been raised so far.
zaodno.org/?id=recREAEeMV0n1CXMI In 2020, Lyubshin was sentenced to five years and two months for comments he made on VKontakte about the explosion near the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized him as a political prisoner.
memopzk.org/figurant/lyubshin-ivan-viktorovich/ On May 1, 2026, while still under post-release supervision after leaving the penal colony, he tried to fly from Minsk to Yerevan to emigrate to France, where he had been approved for a humanitarian visa. He was removed from the flight and charged with evading supervision.
ovd.info/express-news/2026/05/04/kaluzhanina-otbyvshego-srok-iz-za-kommentariya-pro-vzryv-v-fsb-zaderzhali-v
This year, Returning the Names event will be held for the 20th time. On the eve of Political Prisoner's Day, participants take turns reading aloud the names of people repressed in the Soviet Union. It was first held in 2007 at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow to mark the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror. In 2025, the names were read in 150 cities and 50 countries.
october29.live/pochemu-29-oktyabrya/
In Lisbon, it will take place on October 29 at 7 PM at Liberty café (Rua da Esperança, 21).
There will be a recording, as well as a broadcast on the event's YouTube channel, @october29_live.Join us!
october29.live/2026-lissabon/
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