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The flogging of singer Mehdi Yarahi, known for his protest songs, has sparked widespread reactions

March 06, 2025

Iranian singer flogged in "revenge for supporting women and protests" angers opponents The flogging of singer Mehdi Yarahi, know...

Iran's reformists push for a greater role in governance

January 12, 2025

Iran 's Reformists are calling on President Masoud Pezeshkian to take action against other power centers that prevented Mohammad Khatami...

108 civilians killed and injured by Houthi mines in 2024

January 09, 2025

The Monitoring Foundation for Rights, Freedoms and Sustainable Development ( RFSD ) announced that it had documented 108 cases of killing an...

Major report exposes state violence in Iran

December 23, 2024

US-based rights group has unveiled an interactive map detailing 45 years of state violence by Iran domestically and internationally, with ...

US report identifies Iran as leading sponsor of terrorism

December 14, 2024

An annual US State Department report called Iran the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism for the 39th year running, accusing Teh...

Record amputations in Iran in face of international criticism

December 09, 2024

Iran has carried out an unprecedented number of amputations for theft over the past three years, justifying it under the country's stri...

12 Yemenis killed by Houthi shelling attack in Taiz

December 01, 2024

At least 12 civilians were killed and injured on Sunday in a drone strike launched by the Houthi militia on civilian targets in a town in t...

Calls to stop violations against journalists in Yemen

November 03, 2024

45 organizations within the Justice Charter Coalition said that journalism in Yemen is going through the worst phase in its history. For a ...

UN report highlights serious Iran human rights violations

November 02, 2024

A report by the United Nation's new special rapporteur on Iran ’s human rights highlighted the country's fraught record and called f...

Online election criticism is a crime in Iran

October 17, 2024

Rights watchdog Freedom House ranked Iran as having the world’s third most repressive internet environment and lambasted the Islamic Republ...

Iran plans mass deportation of 2 million Afghans

October 07, 2024

Iran has intensified its deportation efforts, aiming to expel at least two million undocumented migrants by the end of March 2025, accordin...

Iran's clerical rule critic Ahmad Ghadiani arrested

October 01, 2024

Iranian security forces have arrested Abolfazl Ghadiani, a former revolutionary who has become an outspoken critic of Iran 's Supreme Le...

Rejecting the hijab is intolerable in Iran

September 26, 2024

Despite Iran ’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, pledging to end harassment by the notorious 'morality police' over violent hijab e...

Women political prisoners in Iran plan a hunger strike

September 24, 2024

Forty-seven female political prisoners in Iran's notorious Evin Prison plan a day-long hunger strike to coincide with President Masoud ...

Human rights report documents 20 deaths in Houthi Prisons

September 23, 2024

A report issued by the Human Rights Office in Yemen 's capital, Sana'a stated that it documented 2,500 violations committed by the H...

Yemen's collapse after a decade of Houthi rule

September 22, 2024

SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties said in a report that Yemen witnessed a radical transformation when the Houthis carried out a cou...

1,500 executed in Iran since 2022 protests

September 18, 2024

At least 1,425 people have been executed in Iran since Mahsa Amini ’s death in custody sparked a nationwide protest movement in September 20...

The high price of dissident art in Iran

September 11, 2024

On the second anniversary of Iran 's sweeping anti-regime protests, a new report by two rights groups calls for urgent international int...

Iran intensifies crackdown on Afghans migrants

September 07, 2024

Twelve Afghan nationals were arrested on Friday in southwestern Iran, accused of attempting to "abduct several children and teenagers,...

Protests flare after man dies in Sudan intelligence custody

September 05, 2024

Protests erupted in Kassala; eastern Sudan , on Sunday after a young man died in the custody of the General Intelligence Service (GIS), alle...

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