Persecution

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

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...

Ahmad Moradi Talebi went for his usual evening stroll with his then pregnant wife on August 10, 1987, in Geneva, Switzerland. It would be...

ndependent human rights experts reporting to the United Nations expressed grave concern over the rise in the systematic targeting of women from the Baha’i...

Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, said she will never stop fighting for democracy and equality, and...

A new report by the Iranian Human Rights Organization sheds light on the abysmal conditions of Qarchak Prison, near Varamin. According to the Iranian Human Rights Organization,...

Execution, long jail terms and big fines for ‘promoting’ nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force

ran has carried out an unprecedented number of amputations for theft over the past three years, a punishment based on Islamic law that breaks...