After the mullahs took power in Iran in 1979, one of the main challenges of the country’s people became the culture, and the conflict of Iran’s very old and rich culture with the fundamental mullah’s culture.
The pair, charged with “participation in disrupting public order”, were sentenced to eight months in prison and 40 lashes last December. Their upheld sentence is suspended for a year.
Iranian authorities are banning members of the persecuted Baha’i minority from burying their loved ones in empty plots at a cemetery near Tehran that they have used for decades, instead insisting they bury them between existing graves ...
On April 27, 1981, brave Iranian mothers risked their lives to expose the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) crimes in suppressing dissent. They staged a peaceful rally to protest the attacks on and killings of the People’s Mojahedin ...
An Iranian Christian convert was sentenced to 10 months of prison by the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran. According to the Mohabat News website, the Christian convert was identified as Hamed Ashouri. Hamed was previously detained ...
A German-Iranian human rights activist held in Iran on vague security-related charges has had her first hearing at a Revolutionary Court, her daughter and human rights groups said.
Iran continues to violate human rights against the Baha’i community, as Baha’i student Sina Shakib at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Isfahan was expelled from the college because of his Baha’i ...
According to Amnesty International’s annual report, Iran ranked second in the world last year in terms of the highest number of executions in the world.
A blindfolded man is being driven in a car and asks where he is. “Show him,” the passenger in the front seat says. The man’s blindfold is taken off, and he sees Tehran’s Azadi Tower. He is ...
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