A report by Amnesty International found that executions in Iran had reached an eight-year high in 2023, after the country executed 853 individuals. But in the span of just 10 days, another 37 have ...
Activists say Swedish nationals have been especially targeted over the life sentence given in Sweden to former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury for his role in mass executions in Iran in 1988.
In a rare statement from a Western government, France condemned Iran's taking of hostages to serve as blackmail to extract concessions from the west, including 4 French citizens, for whom the country ...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is alarmed by recent reports of the rise of execution orders issued against ...
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a ...
The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic ...
"The true face of Western civilization has become more and more clear to the people of the world," Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said.
Hundreds of protesters were reportedly killed during those nationwide demonstrations in Iran and thousands more arrested. As with a number of previous rounds of widespread protests in Iran ...
Executions, which activists say are used by Tehran as a means to instil fear into society, have also continued apace, with at least 110 people executed this year alone according to the Norway ...
Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is stepping up repression at home as tensions flare with its arch-foe ...
That alone shows what civil rights Sunni minorities have, namely none at all!" The number of executions in Iran has risen dramatically in the past two years. Some 20% of the people executed in ...
Iranian rapper Toumaj Salehi, known for his outspoken criticism of the government, has been sentenced to death by an Iranian ...