Persecution

Narges Mohammadi's lawyer said the Nobel Peace laureate was released for three weeks on medical grounds on Wednesday.

On 22 November 2024, the Damghan Revolutionary Court sentenced woman human rights defender Atefeh Rangriz to seven years imprisonment on the charge of “forming...

The "No Execution Tuesdays" campaign, a prisoner-led initiative against capital punishment in Iran, has entered its 45th consecutive week. On Tuesday, prisoners in at least...

The United Nations Forum on Minority Issues – running 28-29 November in Geneva, as part of the current UN Human Rights Council session – has drawn...

ran sentenced at least 14 political prisoners to death in November and carried out at least 135 executions, the second-highest monthly total in 2024...

The rapper was sentenced to death in April on the capital offence of “corruption on earth”

The Iranian regime’s judiciary has sentenced six political prisoners—Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani-Amrian, Babak Alipour, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi—to execution following...

The Iranian regime has sentenced two bereaved mothers, Mahboubeh Ramezani and Rahimeh Yousefzadeh, each to 1.5 years in prison. These women, known as “Mothers...