Treatment of transgender people is a double-edged sword in Iran
Iran — an Islamic theocracy that criminalizes consensual same-sex relations, forces women to adhere to a strict and modest dress code in public, and has…
Human Rights in Iran
Southern Azerbaijan: Activists Languish in Prison After Raising their Voices Against Ethnic Discrimination
At least eight political prisoners in Iran have gone on hunger strike to protest the conditions of their imprisonment, demanding that their unjust prison sentences…
6 executions, one in public in Iran
Five prisoners were hanged in Kerman Prison (southern Iran) and a 24-year-old man was hanged in public in Chalmeh Sang village near Mashhad (northeast Iran)….
Mass execution of 11 prisoners in Iran
The inhuman clerical regime in an inhuman crime hanged six prisoners at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad on November 6, 2016. On the same day,…
Iran: Writer jailed for story about stoning
A writer and human rights activist has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in Iran for penning a story about stoning. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee faces…
Washington Post reporter jailed in Iran
A US journalist who was imprisoned in Iran for 18 months filed suit Monday against the Tehran government, claiming his detention was aimed at “extorting…
Demands of schools in native language in South Azerbaijan
South Azerbaijani activists in Iran, given the approach of the new school year, launched a campaign with the demands of the establishment of schools for…
Iranian secret police killed South Azerbaijani activist
As reported by oguztv.com, a few days ago agents of the Iranian secret police shot dead an activist of South Azerbaijan Sayyad Nejad Ali. The…