Two French nationals have spent nearly three years in Ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, their freed compatriot said, a secret detention facility notorious for harsh conditions which is operated by the country’s intelligence ministry.
Nine political prisoners in the women’s section of Tehran’s Evin Prison, including two sentenced to death, are being denied the right to meet with their families and lawyers, according to information obtained by Iran International.
Iranian authorities have continued to engage in widespread repression of women, ethnic and religious minorities and human rights defenders despite promises of change by the new president, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Prominent Iranian satirist and author Ebrahim Nabavi took his own life in Maryland on Tuesday night, his family said in a statement to Iran International.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the latest film made by Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, has been nominated in BAFTA's hotly contested Film Not In The English Language category.
Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations and a senior American official on Tuesday urged Iranian authorities to revoke a death sentence issued against Kurdish women's rights activist and social worker Pakhshan Azizi.
The United States on Tuesday called on Iran to overturn the death sentence of an Iranian Kurdish aid worker and civil society activist, saying Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death following a "sham trial".
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi has declined France's highest state honor, the Legion d'Honneur, protesting what she described as the country's "hypocrisy" in its dealings with Iran.
Khaled Pirzadeh, a political prisoner and former bodybuilding champion, has attempted suicide after being denied medical care at Tehran's Evin prison.
A Kurdish Iranian woman on death row took part in a nationwide protest movement which started in 2022, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) news outlet said, muddling the official narrative on her conviction for alleged armed separatism.
A French citizen detained in Iran for over two years on espionage charges revealed his identity and described his ordeal in a phone call aired on French radio on Monday, as Paris steps up efforts to gain his release.
Retirees affiliated with Iran’s Social Security Organization, the country’s largest state-run pension fund, held protests in multiple cities on Sunday demanding better pensions and improved living conditions as inflation and economic hardships persist.
German-Iranian political prisoner Nahid Taghavi, 70, has been freed from Tehran’s Evin prison and returned to Germany, her daughter announced on Monday.
Farzaneh Bijanipour, a prisoner held in the notorious Qarchak Prison in southern Tehran, passed away on Saturday evening due to lack of medical care, a Norway-based human rights organization reported on Sunday.
Sixty-eight political prisoners across multiple Iranian prisons have sounded the alarm over the imminent execution of three fellow inmates, highlighting the escalating number of executions in the country.
A Swiss citizen Iran says died by suicide in prison was a 64-year-old tourist, a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman told Iran International, adding that Switzerland is seeking more details on his arrest and death from Tehran.
Prominent Baha’i poet Mahvash Sabet, 71, may soon be sent back to Evin Prison in Tehran following open-heart surgery, sparking alarm among human rights organizations and activists.
At least 38 Baloch citizens, including several women, were arrested in raids by Iran's security forces in Nosratabad, located in southeastern Iran's Zahedan County, on Tuesday, according local rights group Haalvsh.
Amnesty International has condemned Iran's Supreme Court for upholding the conviction and death sentence of Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi, calling her trial and punishment unjust.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that she had no information if US tech billionaire Elon Musk was involved in the release of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from detention in Iran.
The Canadian government said Wednesday it continues to call on Tehran to take full responsibility for its actions, including by making reparation for the harm caused by the downing of the Ukrainian Flight PS752 in 2020.
Mehran Abtahi was a 37-years-old newlywed studying to become an environmental engineer at a Canadian university when his life was tragically taken from him.
Families of the victims of Flight PS752 say they plan to release an investigative film about the downing of the passenger jet five years ago, as part of their ongoing effort to hold Tehran accountable for the tragedy.
In recent letters from Tehran’s Evin prison, at least three political prisoners have described singing and dancing as acts of defiance against the system that has imprisoned them—or sentenced them to death—for their peaceful activities.
Women in Iran are being killed at alarming rates, with rights groups reporting an average of one woman killed every other day in 2024.
The Iranian government said on Tuesday that the implementation of the controversial "Chastity and Hijab" law has been postponed due to the potential unrest it may spark.
Iran executed 901 people in 2024, including 31 women, marking a rise in capital punishment cases, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
The number of Starlink satellite internet users in Iran has surpassed 100,000, a senior industry official said on Monday, underscoring the keenness of Iranians to defy curbs on their access to the outside world.
US President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to temporarily halt the extradition of an Iranian detained in Milan, Italian media said on Monday after Iran International reported that Tehran tied an Italian reporter’s release to the Iranian detainee’s freedom.
A video has gone viral on social media showing a woman without a mandatory headscarf confronting a cleric at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, removing his turban and placing it on her own head like a scarf during the altercation.
The "chain murders" of the 1990s—a series of assassinations targeting Iranian dissidents and intellectuals—claimed at least 80 lives and stand as a dark chapter in the Islamic Republic's history of extrajudicial killings.
At least 31 women were executed in Iran in 2024, according to the Oslo-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR), marking the highest annual figure in 17 years since the organization began documenting executions.
Iran International has learned that IRGC's Quds Force has established three assassination squads, known as the German Network, tasked with targeting Iranian dissidents abroad and Jewish citizens across Europe.
Despite the violent government crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2023, Iranian women persist in defiance through unveiling, singing, and dancing in public, showing the movement's resilience.
Six Iranian citizens have been executed in Saudi Arabia on charges of drug trafficking, Riyadh’s Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday. The ministry did not provide further details regarding the time of arrest, trial, and execution.
Iran witnessed a stark rise in executions this year, with at least 930 death sentences carried out, according to the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.
The anti-hijab protests of Vida Movahed seven years ago have become a legacy that haunts the Islamic Republic today as a nationwide movement against the Islamic headscarf continues to blight Tehran's leadership.
Washington on Sunday urged Iran to release an Italian journalist detained in Tehran in a case likely related to Italy's arrest of an Iranian businessman on terrorism charges at the behest of the United States.
Ahmad Moradi Talebi went for his usual evening stroll with his then pregnant wife on August 10, 1987, in Geneva, Switzerland. It would be his last.
Arezou Badri, 31, has been left paralyzed after she was shot by Iranian police earlier this year for allegedly violating mandatory hijab laws, according to activist and journalist Masih Alinejad.