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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a senior Iranian military official and three others with links to that country’s government with plotting to kill an...

Mostafa Hamdi, a media activist and administrator of the Porseman Telegram group, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison and 70 lashes by...

As we approach the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and Middle East Images (MEI) present...

Iranian authorities have added new restrictions and imposed draconian new punishments for people violating the country’s compulsory dress laws, Human Rights Watch said today.  The “Protection...

Iran-EU relations have proved rocky in recent years due to the country’s continuing human rights violations. Parliament has repeatedly called for more action.

Two years after Mahsa Jina Amini’s tragic death in 2022 at the hands of the so-called morality police, Iran’s creative community has emerged as a formidable...

Iran has recently engaged in a spree of executions, including 29 killings in one day. The development has prompted warnings from international rights advocates...

September 16th marks the two-year anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini's tragic death while in the custody of the morality police. The 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman...

The Iranian Government has intensified its efforts to suppress the fundamental rights of women and girls and crush remaining initiatives of women’s activism, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent investigators warned in an update released on Friday.

On the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, Artistic Freedom Initiative’s new report uncovers human rights abuses following the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising

Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested on false charges, threatened, or harassed the family members of dozens of people killed, executed, or imprisoned during the protests over the last...

 Iranian authorities have reportedly executed at least 87 people in the month after the presidential elections in late June, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Among those...