Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a prominent reformist politician and senior aide to former President Mohammad Khatami, published photos on social media showing that he was in hospital with injuries after unknown individual
A Revolutionary Court of the Islamic Republic in the northwestern city of Mahabad has sentenced a Kurdish man to 13 years in prison. According to a report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Mohammad-Taher
Twenty-four-year-old Kosar Eftekhari is living proof of the violent oppression in Iran. “The Islamic Republic shot me in the eye and took my sight,” she said. Eftekhari was a theatre actress in Iran, who took
Authorities in Iran's Kish Island have banned 42 Instagram accounts with a collective following over two million in the latest crackdown on social media, branding the accounts “norm breakers”. The recent move
Iran faces a confluence of economic woes: widespread poverty, skyrocketing prices (particularly for food), business recessions, high unemployment, and dwindling purchasing power. These factors have bred a new kind
Iran’s violent repression of peaceful protests and widespread, systematic violations of human rights could, in many cases, amount to crimes against humanity, according to a U.N. fact-finding mission. The three-member
Sara Hossain, the head of the United Nations' independent fact-finding mission on Iran's 2022 protests, said the Islamic Republic's authorities had utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor protesters on
Iranian scholar and activist Sedigheh Vasmaghi, charged with appearing in public without the mandatory head scarf, has said she will not appear in court, calling it "illegitimate." Vasmaghi, who was arrested at
Iranian security forces shot hundreds of people who took part in widespread protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police, top independent
The Iranian judicial system has sentenced five Kurdish individuals to varying terms of imprisonment, according to a report by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Among those sentenced is a minor, 16-year-old
On Monday in Geneva they called on the authorities to “put an end to impunity”. This demand was also echoed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from her prison in Tehran. In a joint statement to ...
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