The secretary of a religious watchdog office in Iran has admitted that since the establishment of the Islamic Republic four decades ago (1979), the authorities have executed 15,000 people for drug-related crimes
Nine Christians in Iran have been convicted of attending church services at someone's home. Open Doors USA reports police have raided a church in the country, where it is illegal to convert to another religion from Islam. ...
Five shopkeepers were arrested and 13 stores shut down by security forces in Alborz province, Iran, according to state-run media reports, for selling “unconventional clothing”
A jailed Iranian Christian wrote an open letter from Tehran’s Evin Prison demanding to know why he had been sentenced to 10 years of prison for running “house churches”
A prominent critic of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran has said that the notion of supreme religious rule is “the foundation of oppression” imposed on the people of Iran since 1979
When news broke last month that Iran officials had cut the fingers of one of their citizens after being found guilty of theft, it served as a grim reminder that the regime is built on a heavy-handed ...
According to IRIB News, on the morning of Thursday, October 31, a man was executed in public in the Iranian central city of Khomein. He was sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for killing a policeman 14 months ...
According to the Human Rights Activist’s News Agency in Iran (HRANA), on Wednesday, November 5, five businesses belonging to Baha’i citizens were shuttered and seized by security agents in Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchistan province
The month of October was marked by Iran’s crackdown on freedom of expression. Security forces in the southwestern town of Lordegan made widespread arrests following large protests over the HIV infection of villagers by a local health ...
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