Human Rights

At least 110 women were killed in Iran between November 2024 and November 2025, a US-based human rights group said in a report marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

A group of prisoners in Iran alleged that a coordinated network trafficking narcotics and other illicit goods has operated for years across multiple detention facilities, according to a report they released on Sunday.

The US State Department called the death of political prisoner Farzad Khoshboresh an example of Islamic Republic abuses, saying that the establishment is suppressing dissent with violence instead of addressing public needs.

The Association of Iranian Studies Committee on Academic Freedom on Friday urged top Tehran’s officials to drop charges against five independent scholars, calling it a politically motivated move.

An Iranian–American woman is being held in incommunicado detention in Tehran after her arrest upon arrival at Imam Khomeini Airport in September, according to Norway-based rights group Hengaw.

The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning Iran’s human rights record, in a move praised by the UN rapporteur on rights on the country.

More eyewitness students have reached out to Iran International with testimonies detailing a series of aggressive acts at a Tehran school on Tuesday, leaving three girls hospitalized.

Three students were taken to a hospital after officials at a girls’ technical school in Shahr-e Rey south of Tehran allegedly assaulted pupils during searches for mobile phones, according to videos and eyewitness accounts sent to Iran International.

Tehran is turning to quieter, more insidious forms of repression: cutting citizens off from their mobile phone numbers without notice or pressuring them to shut down their often popular social-media accounts.

Iranian state broadcaster Press TV has been formally registered under Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (FITS) as an entity acting on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Attorney General’s Department told Iran International.

Private clinics in Iran have been demanding that nurses commit to remaining unmarried and childless as a hiring condition amid growing staffing shortages, the country’s nursing chief said on Sunday, describing the practice as unlawful.

Iran’s judiciary has placed what it calls the fight against nudity and improper hijab at the center of its enforcement agenda, warning that organizers and permit-issuing bodies for events deemed to violate law or Sharia will be prosecuted, judiciary-affiliated Mizan News said.

Six years after Iran’s blackout and mass killings, two women keep alive the month the Islamic Republic tried to bury.

Iran’s judiciary chief instructed prosecutors nationwide to work with security and police agencies to identify what he called “organized groups linked to foreigners” involved in “social irregularities,” escalating the state’s campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab.

A joke about a 10th century Persian poet Ferdowsi landed an Iranian female comedian a six-month prison term and mandatory homework on the bard amid the Islamic Republic's broader pivot toward nationalism following the June war with Israel.

Canada disrupted multiple potentially fatal plots by Iranian intelligence services targeting perceived enemies on Canadian soil, spy chief Dan Rogers said on Thursday.

A Christian convert detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison was denied adequate medical care after suffering a spinal fracture from a fall, London-based rights group Article 18 reported.

A British couple held in Iran on spying charges have begun a hunger strike inside Evin prison, their son told the BBC on Thursday, saying his mother described the move as her only means of protest.