Human Rights

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk expressed alarm Tuesday at the sharp increase in executions in Iran and called on the Islamic Republic to...

At least 901 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including about 40 in a single week in December, according to the UN...

Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, a Kurdish political prisoner arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran, now faces severe charges that could lead to...

On Sunday, January 5, 2025, widespread protests erupted across multiple cities in Iran, as retirees, steelworkers, and contract workers voiced their grievances over economic hardship,...

By late December 2024, a significant conference addressing the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran was held in Sydney, Australia, organized by the Edmund...

Protest gatherings by various segments of the Iranian population were held on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, coinciding with political prisoners’ protests in 28 prisons...

Calls were growing today for the UN-backed international prosecution of Iran’s theocracy, and leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after it was revealed Tehran was responsible...

On December 31, 2024, prisoners across Iran marked the 49th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign, a protest movement initiated by political...