Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in suppressing nationwide protests in January while two US strikes on civilian sites in February amounted to war crimes, the UN fact-finding mission on Iran told the Human Rights Council on Monday.
The spokesman for Iran’s mass mobilisation campaign said children under 15 could be introduced to military concepts, while denying that minors were receiving formal weapons training as authorities expand a civilian defence drive launched during the war.
Iran has executed a man it accused of passing information about missile sites in Isfahan to Israel's Mossad, the judiciary said on Saturday, the latest in a series of espionage executions that rights groups say rest on confessions extracted in detention.
An Iranian woman sentenced to death over January’s anti-government protests is struggling to walk but has been denied hospital treatment despite a prison doctor saying she urgently needs an MRI, her family told Iran International.
Videos showing women running without headscarves at a road race in Tehran went viral on Friday, months after a similar event on Kish Island prompted action against its organizers.
A 21-year-old taekwondo athlete shot by Iranian security forces during January protests has died after undergoing about 30 operations, according to information received by Iran International.
Four years after Mahsa Amini’s death, the deepest legacy of Woman, Life, Freedom may be that Iran cannot simply be returned to the society it was before September 2022.
A video showing Iranian police beating and sexually humiliating a teenager while officers laugh, insult him and film the abuse has unleashed fury across Iranian social media, with users asking what may happen beyond public view.
Some cancer patients in Iran are selling essential household goods or abandoning medication as soaring drug prices and gaps in insurance coverage put treatment beyond the reach of low-income families, a charity director said on Thursday.
Iranian security forces committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on nationwide protests, a UN fact-finding mission said on Thursday, citing mass killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
The Italian city of Imola has dedicated a green space to Mahsa Jina Amini, marking the fourth anniversary of her death in Iran’s morality-police custody and honoring the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed, a Bologna-based daily newspaper reported.
In September 2022, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police ignited a fire that still burns.
Four years after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, Iran International asked women on Instagram to describe the first time they went out without a headscarf. The answers came back in the same four registers: fear, freedom, grief and solidarity.
Twenty-five surgeries have failed to end the ordeal of a protester shot during January demonstrations in Iran, with a severe infection still spreading through the wounded leg and a 26th operation now planned, Iran International learned.
Iranian state authorities organized a systematic, high-level campaign of murder, torture, and sexual violence to crush the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, according to a 1,000-page investigation published by Amnesty International on Wednesday.
Iranian security forces fanned out across several western cities on Wednesday as shopkeepers shut down businesses to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, according to videos and messages sent to Iran International.
Four years after Mahsa “Jina” Amini’s death in Iran’s morality police custody sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, teenagers who watched her name become a rallying cry have grown up amid repression but beyond many of the social and political boundaries of pre-2022 Iran.
Twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi have been tortured in detention and threatened with sexual violence, while death-row Taraneh is now being denied food in retaliation for family advocacy, their cousin told Iran International.
An Iranian appeals court has upheld the death sentence of Ali Rahimi Rigi, a 32-year-old detainee from the January protests, a source familiar with the case told Iran International.
Eight months after Iran's January protests, the partners left behind by some of those killed are recounting lives abruptly divided by gunfire – marriages measured in months or days, anniversaries spent at graves and final embraces they never knew were their last.
Female political prisoners at Iran's Evin Prison face increasingly invasive body searches involving forced undressing and breast touching, leading some to forgo medical treatment and visits, sources told Iran International.
Iranian security forces arrested three Baha’i citizens during raids on their homes in Shiraz, southwestern Iran, on Monday and transferred them to an undisclosed location, Iran International has learned.