Iran is using rap music to promote hardline Islamist values and nuclear energy ambitions, while dissident artists are jailed ...
A photo of Majid Reza Rahnavard, an anti-government protester executed in Iran, is seen at a demonstration in Berlin on Dec. 12, 2022. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Iran — already notorious for its ...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is alarmed by recent reports of the rise of execution orders issued against ...
Iran executed 853 people in 2023 — the highest number on record since 2015, according to a report in Amnesty International.
Regime’s effort to exploit US campus crackdown damaged by treatment of Toomaj Salehi ...
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a ...
Despite averting a war with Israel for now, Tehran is nervous. It is cracking down on critics and women who disobey the ...
Executions, which activists say are used by Tehran as a means to instil fear into society, have also increased in recent days ...
Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022. Aida Shakarami was detained for allegedly violating the compulsory hijab laws, her mother says.
Morality police,' whose presence diminished after last year's mass protests following death of Mahsa Amini, reemerged just as ...
The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic ...
Iranian authorities on Thursday, April 25, faced pressure to release and clear a prominent rapper sentenced to death in a ...