A jailed Iranian women's right activist who has campaigned against the country's strict Islamic dress code has reportedly gone on a hunger strike to protest against the imprisonment of her mother.
Dr Khatereh Eghdamian counts herself fortunate to call New Zealand home. The Iranian-born advisor on human rights, Associate at Oxford House Research and Associate at the Centre for Religion and Global Affairs, was granted refuge here after ...
Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian detainee, has been held for 267 days in a jail in Tehran. He was kidnapped in July 2020 and has almost spent a year in prison without receiving proper medial care or being ...
According to HRANA sources, quoting Tasnim, the public relations officer of the IRGC in Hamadan announced the summoning and arrest of eight supporters of Erfan-e-Halgheh (Circle of Mysticism).
The following is a roundup of the human rights situation in Iran for the month of April 2021, based on information from activists and state media, collated by Iran News Update.
Iran’s state-run media has begun to acknowledge that the economic crisis there is solely down to the officials’ corruption and mismanagement. Even if they still tried to downplay the true scale of the problem, this just goes ...
Protests by people from all social classes, all employment sectors, and all age ranges are continuing to be seen across Iran, as the public are outraged by both the authorieties’ general failure to improve the lot of ...
Keeping track of what is going on in the world is one of the most important metrics in a free and democratic society. In a free society, this is recognized as a citizen’s right and enshrined in ...
Iran’s schools, which reopened on September 5, 2020, began on this date with the goal that perhaps teachers would be able to compensate the time of the lost education that was stopped because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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