At least 31 women were executed in Iran in 2024, according to the Oslo-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR), marking the highest annual figure in 17 years since the organization began documenting executions.
Iran International has learned that IRGC's Quds Force has established three assassination squads, known as the German Network, tasked with targeting Iranian dissidents abroad and Jewish citizens across Europe.
Six Iranian citizens have been executed in Saudi Arabia on charges of drug trafficking, Riyadh’s Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday. The ministry did not provide further details regarding the time of arrest, trial, and execution.
Iran witnessed a stark rise in executions this year, with at least 930 death sentences carried out, according to the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.
Washington on Sunday urged Iran to release an Italian journalist detained in Tehran in a case likely related to Italy's arrest of an Iranian businessman on terrorism charges at the behest of the United States.
Arezou Badri, 31, has been left paralyzed after she was shot by Iranian police earlier this year for allegedly violating mandatory hijab laws, according to activist and journalist Masih Alinejad.
German Member of the European Parliament Hannah Neumann on Friday condemned Iran's detention of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala as another case of "hostage taking" by Islamic Republic authorities aimed at securing the release of its convicted prisoners abroad.
Iran’s football federation summoned a professional player after he hugged a female fan prior to a match, highlighting official unease over female spectators not long after they were allowed to attend games after an over 40-year ban.
Prominent Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti has reportedly been blocked from traveling, filmmaker Mina Akbari said on Friday.
Iranian authorities arrested at least 644 women over alleged improper veiling in 2024, US-based rights group HRANA said in its annual report on human rights violations in Iran released Thursday.
Nearly 150 welders at Tehran Refinery have been fired, and 15 representatives of oil contract workers face dismissal for protesting unpaid wages and demanding better conditions as the government continues to quash dissent.
At least 31 prisoners were hanged in various Iranian prisons in one week. Another prisoner on death row also committed suicide in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj this week, according to human rights reports.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has drawn parallels between the oppressive system described in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the systemic control of women in Iranian society.