A WOMEN’S rights activist from Iran has told how she fled the country after a video of her throwing stones at a picture of its Supreme Leader went viral. “Mina” was speaking at a meeting of the ...
The United Nations said Tuesday it deplored the executions of a 17-year-old and a 22-year old in Iran and urged Tehran to immediately stop applying the death penalty. The UN Human Rights Office said it was troubled
Iranian authorities have denied a man executed for murdering a government agent and taking part in last year’s anti-government protests a burial in a Muslim cemetery, and his parents were arrested during his
Iran's sports minister has sacked the country's deaf sports federation chief after pictures emerged of a foreign woman athlete without a compulsory headscarf at a tournament, local media said. Mehran Tishehgaran
The Instagram accounts of Iranian actress Maryam Masoumi and Setareh Masoumi, the wife of football player Mehdi Ghayedi, have been blocked due to the publication of photos without hijab. Maryam Masoumi's account
Iran’s regime has secretly executed political prisoner Ali Saber Motlaq in Lakan Prison, Rasht, according to information received from the families of prisoners in this facility. Motlaq, 62, was a longtime supporter
A political prisoner has called on Iran's chief justice to investigate his revelation that dissident rapper Saman Seydi (Yasin) was subjected to mock execution. In an open letter addressed to Chief Justice Gholamreza
Iran has executed a 17-year-old boy who had been tried and convicted of murder, the Norway-based Hengaw and Iran Human Rights (IHR) groups said. IHR said the execution of Hamidreza Azari took place on November
[Northern Iraq] Women’s rights activists and human rights researchers report increasing use of torture and sexual violence by Iranian authorities against protesters, particularly within the prison system. “Since
The family of a young Iranian man executed last week over the alleged killing of a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during nationwide protests continues to face harassment and intimidation
The authorities in Iran’s central province of Hamedan have executed a man who had been sentenced to death for allegedly murdering a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during nationwide protests
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