The mother of an Iranian political prisoner was arrested by intelligence agents and taken to an unknown location, according to a report from the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
Feeling threatened by the dissent against his absolute rule, less than 10 years into the Islamic revolution, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, known as the “death decree” to ...
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to one year in prison after being convicted of "spreading propaganda" against the Islamic republic, a charge that is often brought against intellectuals and critics of the Iranian establishment
On Monday, protests were reported in various Iranian cities, including Tehran, Shiraz, Assaluyeh, Chabahr, Gachsaran and Ahvaz. The protests continue to target the corrupt and destructive policies of the regime and its lack of response to the ...
The owner of the U.K.-flagged ship held by Iran says it has made first contact with the crew of 23 since its seizure five days ago in the Strait of Hormuz
An Iranian civic and labor activist jailed since January has begun a hunger strike to protest her treatment and that of his family at the hands of security organs
The Iranian regime’s security forces in the impoverished Sistan and Baluchistan Province opened fire on a vehicle carrying fuel and killed the driver and the passenger
On Monday, 22 July 2019, due to the lack of safety of working conditions, seven workers in the Iranian cities of Rasht, Qazvin, Gorgan and Tehran suffered accidents. In these incidents, six workers lost their lives and ...
A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran was chained to a bed and kept in solitary confinement during her stay in a psychiatric ward, according to her husband...
Imprisoned for more than 25 years, Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Nazari has been denied hospitalization to receive tests for a tumor in his stomach, his lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on July ...
In its latest job posting, the Iranian state broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), listed “complete health and lack of physical disability” and “adherence to Islam and Velayat-e faqih [Iran’s system of clerical rule over ...
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