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...
Mahsa Amini's family receives death threats September 15, 2024 In the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini ’s death in morality police custody, Iranian authorities have threatened her family with arrest as ...
Iranian blogger receives public threat of rape June 11, 2024 Iranian Former political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi has alleged that security forces threatened him with sexual assault and confiscated his b...
Iran Imposes Harsh Punishment on Protests May 04, 2024 Since the Mahsa protests, Iran 's courts have prosecuted dozens of individuals, issuing harsh sentences for alleged leadership of protes...
Iranian Official Blames Protesters For Deaths In 2022 March 18, 2024 An Iranian official claims that security forces acted with "responsibility" during the 2022-2023 anti-government protests , accusi...
Iranian clerics oppose compulsory Hijab March 17, 2024 Several Iranian clerics have criticized hardline policies regarding compulsory hijab , after public outcry over a clergyman filming a young ...
UN reports holds Iran responsible for crimes against humanity March 09, 2024 A UN fact-finding mission says the Iranian regime 's crackdown on 2022 protests – including killings, imprisonment, torture, and sexual ...
Western feminism has no place in Iran September 25, 2023 Jamileh Alamolhoda, wife of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, spoke to some of the world’s top media saying a woman’s place is as a mother a...
Women’s eyes and faces intentionally targeted in Iran September 24, 2023 Iran Human Rights (IHR) says analysis of protester deaths and eye injuries reveals that women’s eyes and faces were intentionally targeted d...
EU sanctions more Iranian individuals and entities September 16, 2023 The European Union sanctioned four more Iranian individuals and six entities for human rights violations in the bloc’s 10th package of rest...
Iran on high alert before Mahsa Amini death’s anniversary September 10, 2023 Authorities in Iran ’s southwest have arrested six people accused of “organizing riots” on the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in c...
Iran puts Mahsa Amini's lawyer on trial August 31, 2023 The trial has begun in Iran of the lawyer of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian Kurd whose death last September triggered a widespread protest...
Iran's leaders vow to enforce mandatory dress code August 10, 2023 For months, Iranian authorities did little to enforce the law on women covering their hair but now the country’s theocracy is pushing to mak...
Iranian reporters still behind bars August 09, 2023 Iranian authorities have questioned or arrested over 90 journalists since nationwide protests rocked the Islamic Republic last year, local...
Iran enforces intensified hijab crackdown July 26, 2023 Efforts to tighten restrictions on women in Iran have reignited the protest movement that saw the country's streets flooded with furiou...
Iran bans film festival over hijab July 24, 2023 Iranian authorities have banned a film festival that put out a publicity poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab headscarf, ...
EU imposing further sanctions on Iran May 23, 2023 The European Union on Monday imposed new sanctions on Iranian officials and entities for their role in the violent crackdown on popular pro...
Hijab remains the official repressive law in Iran April 15, 2023 A group of UN human rights experts said Friday that Islamic Republic’s repressive measures to enforce hijab epitomize gender-based persecut...
Iran installs cameras to find women not wearing hijab April 09, 2023 Iranian authorities have begun installing cameras in public places to identify unveiled women, the police have announced. Women seen not c...
Iran security forces crackdown on teachers April 08, 2023 Iran's security forces Thursday violently attacked teachers’ protests in Tehran and Karaj, detaining several some of whom were reported...