Iran’s economy is reeling from an acute labor shortage following the mass deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants, with key industries such as construction and agriculture struggling to function.
Iran hanged a man in public on Tuesday after he and his wife were convicted of murdering a mother and her three children during a robbery in October 2024, judiciary's outlet Mizan reported.
A court in Tehran has sentenced women’s rights defender Hasti Amiri to three years in prison on charges that include propaganda against the state after protesting against the death penalty and appearing unveiled in public, she said in a post on Instagram.
Court cases against Iranian teachers detained in protests remain unresolved and the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian has not altered its approach toward labor demands, a teachers’ union spokesman told the reformist daily Sharq.
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, despite what her lawyer described as unresolved flaws in the case.
More than 20 members of Iran’s Baha’i minority in the central city of Isfahan have had their homes, assets and vehicles confiscated in recent weeks, in some cases being informed only by text message, the Baha’i International Community (BIC) said on Wednesday.
A Shi'ite summer school camp in England, known as Camp Wilayah, has been cancelled due to what its organizer described as safety threats, following accusations by a right-wing political party that it has ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The US State Department on Thursday called on Iran to stop its ongoing assaults on journalists and independent media, including threats targeting reporters and their families across the world.
Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she is receiving death threats that are openly coming from Iran’s intelligence agents.
A federal court in the United States has rejected multiple motions by Parviz Sabeti, a onetime security chief in pre-revolutionary Iran, to dismiss a landmark lawsuit accusing him of aiding and abetting the torture of dissidents in the 1970s.
Two refinery workers in southern Iran died of suspected heatstroke while on the job amid soaring summer temperatures, Iranian media reported.
Ontario’s top court has upheld a ruling that Ukraine International Airlines must pay full compensation to the families of passengers killed when Iran shot down Flight PS752 in 2020. But families say the ruling doesn’t diminish Iran’s responsibility.
The Iranian Baha’i community has faced systematic repression, arrests, and nearly 1,500 years in prison sentences over the past five years, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The US State Department on Tuesday condemned Iran’s death sentences against protesters from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement, warning that at least 11 people face imminent execution.
Iranian police said on Tuesday they detained about 21,000 people described as suspects during the country’s 12-day war with Israel, arrests they said were largely based on public tip-offs, while the judiciary had put the figure closer to 2,000.
Iranian political prisoner Babak Shahbazi faces an imminent risk of execution following a Supreme Court decision to uphold his death sentence, the Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw said on Monday.
Iranian authorities resorted to violence against political prisoners who refused physical restraints during their transfer back to Evin Prison 45 days after the Israeli attack, 14 inmates said on Sunday, accusing the judiciary of attempting a cover-up.
Iranian authorities have threatened dozens of journalists at London-based broadcaster Iran International, along with hundreds of their relatives, in a bid to force them to resign, Forbes reported.
The Islamic Republic's threats to critics in Canada could grow in 2025, with Iran using organized crime networks to intimidate and harm them, Canada’s intelligence agency warned on Saturday.
More than one million migrants were returned from Iran to Afghanistan over the past 100 days, including 450,000 from Tehran province, Tehran’s governor said on Saturday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday condemned threats by the Islamic Republic against the families of journalists working for Iran International, BBC Persian and Radio Farda, calling the tactic “emotional hostage-taking”
More than 600 political prisoners were transferred back to Tehran’s Evin Prison early Friday, jailed activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said, after being held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the June 23 Israeli missile strike that damaged the facility.