Human Rights

A military court in Iran's Hamedan has upheld a ruling that drops all charges against three Revolutionary Guard officers accused of killing two young men during a checkpoint incident in July, according to a document obtained by Iran International.

An Iranian economics journalist whose work scrutinizing the country's free trade zones resulted in multiple judicial summonses has suffered a stroke, sources familiar with her health told Iran International.

Mark Kaufman, a German national detained in Iran in June on suspicion of espionage has been freed under conditional pardon, journalist Kambiz Ghafouri told Iran International.

The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran set up by the United Nations said on Thursday that human rights were increasingly under attack following a June war with Israel and the United States.

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran said on Thursday that Israel likely violated international law in its military campaign in June while Tehran expanded repression after the conflict with hundreds of executions and new curbs on dissent.

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday sentenced two mobsters convicted of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her New York home to 25 years in prison.

Veteran political activist and prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani published a letter from Tehran’s Evin Prison criticizing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's advice to Trump on how to deal with recent domestic protests.

In Iran, women seeking justice for rape face a system that reopens their wounds — forcing them to relive trauma in courts that offer punishment without protection, and laws with no room for mercy, a report by leading reformist newspaper Shargh said.

A seven-year-old disabled and orphaned girl named Dorsa was brutally sexually assaulted by the director of a rehabilitation center in Mazandaran province, leaving her with severe genital injuries, according to a report by Ham-Mihan newspaper.

A leading pharmaceutical industry figure warned that Iran faces inevitable production disruptions and severe drug shortages by March, as renewed UN sanctions under the snapback mechanism tighten access to foreign currency and strain supply chains.

Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned death sentences issued against five Kurdish men from Boukan who were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022, ordering a retrial in a local revolutionary court, according to rights organizations.

Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian political prisoner, has been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court on charges of collaboration with groups fighting the Islamic Republic, a US-based human rights group said on Saturday.

Iran’s hardline daily Kayhan, run by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative, blamed government bodies for lax enforcement of hijab rules and called for stronger promotion of compulsory veiling in a commentary published on Saturday.

Eight hundred Iranian activists including political prisoners on Friday condemned as a "tool of repression" a steep uptick in Tehran's use of the death penalty after rights groups reported 280 hangings in Iran in October alone.

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Manouchehr Fallah, a 42-year-old laborer from northern Iran who now faces imminent execution for allegedly detonating a small sound bomb outside a local courthouse.

A US court will hold a sentencing hearing next week for two men convicted over an alleged Tehran-backed plot to kill Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad, she said on X on Thursday.

On paper, Iran’s law still mandates the compulsory hijab. But the streets tell a more complicated truth.

Iran has carried out at least 88 public executions between 2011 and 2023, according to a review published by the daily Shargh, which said the practice -- often witnessed by crowds including children -- has failed to reduce violent crime despite declining in recent years.