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Dissident rapper arrested during Iran protests needs ‘urgent’ treatment: Rights group
A rapper arrested in October on capital charges in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests needs urgent medical treatment, a rights group said Thursday, urging an international campaign for his ...
Iran’s judiciary chief threatens to prosecute ‘without mercy’ unveiled woman
Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media ...
Weekly protests persist in Iran’s southeast amid internet disruption
Weekly protests against Iran’s clerical leaders continued in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan as thousands took to the streets on Friday, according to footage circulating on social ...
Biden pays tribute to Iranian women at Nowruz celebration
President Joe Biden used a White House event to mark Persian New Year on Monday to pay tribute to Iranian women and girls who took to the streets of Iran to protest following the death last year of 22 ...
Actor Boniadi asks world to back Iran women protests against ‘gender apartheid’
Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women's rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and ...
Protests in Tehran as mysterious poison attacks against schoolgirls in Iran continue
The activist group 1500tasvir released a list of more than 40 girls’ schools across Iran, spanning over 20 cities and towns, where students were reportedly poisoned on Saturday.
Iranian schoolgirls ‘forced to watch porn’ to dissuade protests: Report
Iranian security forces have been forcing schoolgirls to watch pornographic videos during mandatory sessions aimed at discouraging their participation in anti-regime protests, according to a report ...
New protests in Iran’s southeast as internet blocked: Activists
Protesters in southeastern Iran on Friday took to the streets displaying slogans against the Iranian government despite an intense security presence and apparent blocking of the internet, activists ...
Renewed protests in Iran to mark 40 days since execution of two demonstrators
Protests erupted in several cities across Iran on Thursday to mark 40 days since the execution of two protesters, footage circulating on social media showed.Last month, Mohammad-Mehdi Karami and ...
Germany sees increase in Iranian spying since protests: Reports
The German government has acknowledged an increase in spying by Iranian intelligence agents on exiled Iranians living in Germany since the start of mass protests last year, Welt am Sonntag newspaper ...
Iranians in Australia disclose regime harassment of their families in Iran: Report
Iranian expatriates in Australia opposed to the Iranian regime have reported their families in Iran being targeted by authorities due to their political beliefs.Massoud Modabber, a supporter of the ...
Iran’s security forces targeting eyes of protesters: Rights group
Iran’s security forces have been systematically targeting the eyes of demonstrators in their crackdown on the protests that have swept the country since September, a human rights group said ...
Images of emaciated Iranian prisoner on hunger strike prompt outrage
Social media images purported to be of an emaciated jailed Iranian physician who went on hunger strike in support of demonstrations against the compulsory wearing of the hijab have caused outrage and ...
Global figures urge support for protesters in Iran
Hundreds of global figures from Nobel laureates to actors have issued a joint plea urging “unstinting” support for Iranians protesting against their country’s regime in defiance of a bloody ...
Stay of execution for Iran protester on death row: Judiciary
An Iranian, sentenced to death for allegedly attacking security forces during protests triggered by last year’s death in custody of Mahsa Amini, has been given a stay of execution, the judiciary said ...
Aide to Sunni cleric arrested in Iran’s Zahedan for ‘manipulating’ public opinion
An aide to Sunni Muslim cleric Molavi Abdolhamid, an influential leader of Iran’s ethnic Baluchi minority, was arrested in the restive southeastern city of Zahedan late Monday, state media ...
Reports of torture, unfair trials in Iran trigger fresh alarm over fate of protesters
Rights groups warned that several young people, including teenagers who’ve been jailed by Iran for their involvement in anti-government protests, are at risk of being executed, and have been ...
Iranian who interviewed Mahsa Amini’s father says sentenced without hearing
An Iranian journalist who was arrested after interviewing the father of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked months of protests, said Saturday she had been sentenced without a court hearing. ...
Iran sentences dissident to prison again over protests: Lawyer
An Iranian court has sentenced a prominent activist and vocal supporter of nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death to more than five years in jail, his lawyer said Thursday.Arash Sadeghi, a ...
US House commends Iranian protesters in bipartisan vote
The US House overwhelmingly approved a resolution Wednesday expressing solidarity with people in Iran who have been risking imprisonment and even death to protest against the country’s theocracy.The ...
Iran athlete says ‘no regrets’ after losing eye at protest
An Iranian archer who had lost sight in her left eye after being shot by security forces has said she has “no regrets” for joining nationwide protests.Iranian authorities have cracked down on more ...
Iran second worst country for internet censorship in 2022 following protests: Report
Iran was the second place in the world for internet censorship in 2022 after repeatedly shutting off the internet in parts of country and blocking access to social media platforms to curb protests ...
Sunni leader calls for updating Iran’s constitution as protesters take to streets
Despite a brutal crackdown by security forces, the province of Sistan-Baluchistan has witnessed protests weekly after Friday prayers since late September.
Iran's ‘death committee’ president unyielding in defense of clerical rule
As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a “death committee” overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say.Now president three ...
Thousands protest in France to demand EU blacklisting of Iran’s IRGC
Thousands of members of the Iranian diaspora from all over Europe on Monday demonstrated in the EU parliament host city of Strasbourg to urge the bloc to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...