Iranian police units arrested several ethnic Azerbaijani rights activists at a peaceful protest gathering in Ghaleh Babak in East Azerbaijan Province on ...
Three Azeri men from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and one Iranian man--all Protestant Christian converts--have been sentenced to ...
A senior Iranian judicial official has publicly defended the state’s mass executions of political prisoners and ...
Despite resistance from security organizations, a bill that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for petty drug-trafficking crimes in Iran is scheduled to be debated in Parliament in July 2017. If passed, it could save ...
The announcement by the CEO of the Telegram messaging application that he has agreed to register his firm in Russia ...
Iran’s supreme leader is continuing his public criticism of newly re-elected President Hassan ...
Iranian judicial authorities are refusing to free an elderly political prisoner who was incarcerated for visiting close ...
The peaceful battle by women’s rights activists geared towards ending the ban on female spectators in ...
Iran’s newly re-elected centrist President Hassan Rouhani should engage in “constructive collaboration” with Parliament to implement ...
After being detained for more than one year on unsubstantiated espionage charges, Azeri political activist Habib ...
Despite a spate of attacks from powerful conservatives, newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani should fulfill the ...
Thirteen people, including Arab ethnic rights activists and poets, were arrested in ...
Women caught with “bad hijabs” in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, will face criminal prosecution and their vehicles will ...
“We don’t know if he’s dead or still alive.” Four relatives of a member of a Kurdish ...
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s ongoing public criticism of President Hassan Rouhani is “rooted in the fact ...
Siamak Mirzaei, an Azeri ethnic rights activist, started a hunger strike on June 25, 2017 in ...
Jila Movahed Shariat Panahi President Hassan Rouhani should honor his campaign pledges to ...
Ailing Human Rights Lawyer Granted Brief Furlough Journalist Tahereh Riahi and civil rights activist ...
Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist serving a 16-year prison sentence for her peaceful ...
A few weeks after being elected for a second term as president, Hassan Rouhani had to ...
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that his supporters should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is ...
Husband Pressured to Confess to Espionage Formerly imprisoned photojournalist Asal Esmailzadeh was “suddenly” arrested without charge while accompanying her ...
The killing, by border guards, of another kulbar—the Persian word for ...