{
  "id": 2106685,
  "title": "An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/an-open-letter-to-irans-political-prisoners-trapped-between-two",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:00:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/aug/20/iran-political-prisoners"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that Republic claims to stand against August marks the anniversary of the 1988 mass executions in Iran, a horror that echoes in the country’s current surge in death sentences. It also marks the 19 August anniversary of the UK- and US-orchestrated coup against the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}