In an appeal to the UN Human Rights Council, Narges Mohammadi, a prominent political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has called for sustained efforts in addressing human rights abuses in Iran.
Hossein Razzagh, a political activist and dissident who was imprisoned until recently, has lodged a formal complaint against authorities within the Ministry of Intelligence at Evin Prison.
Norway based Victim’s Families for Transitional Justice has written to Javaid Rehman, Iran’s UN human rights rapporteur, about rights breaches at Khavaran Cemetery, Tehran.
Iran is facing a surge in school dropout rates, reaching the highest level seen in the past fifteen years, as many families can no longer afford to keep children in education.
Naim Arbabi, an Iranian Chabahar resident and participant in the 2022 anti-government protests, was shot dead by four armed assailants on Thursday.
Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been tried on charges of “disseminating falsehoods” and “calling for violence,” according to a post on his X account on Saturday.
Iranian security forces have prevented families of prisoners executed in the 1980s from visiting the Khavaran cemetery, the resting place of their loved ones.
The United States has backed a report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran that confirmed a wide array of “crimes against humanity” committed during the Iranian regime's crackdown on the 2022 protests.
Fired faculty members from the University of Tehran are challenging the chancellor who recently claimed no professors have been expelled amid mass crackdowns on dissent.
Iran's security forces have killed a 21-year-old woman in what law enforcement claims was a case of mistaken identity as she and her family drove home from a funeral in the early hours of Saturday.
After being implemented in metro stations, university campuses and a raft of public spaces, hijab enforcement by special agents has now been extended to Iran's airports.
In the wake of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission’s (FFM) report on human rights violations in Iran, the Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary dismissed the charges.
Iranian activist Masih Alinejad warned of a surge in global authoritarianism and the decline of democracy with two thirds of the world living under autocratic regimes.
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