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Jobs protests met with gunfire in southwestern Iran

Jobs protests met with gunfire in southwestern Iran

Iranian security forces on Monday used gunfire and beatings to disperse two protests by young jobseekers in southwestern Iran, as anger over unemployment and alleged discrimination in hiring spills into the streets.

Iran court sentences 10 protesters to death in Isfahan

Iran court sentences 10 protesters to death in Isfahan

A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan has sentenced 10 protesters to death and six others to prison terms of up to 25 years over the nationwide demonstrations in the central Iranian city, according to an activist-run Telegram news channel.

Syria veteran emerges as key figure in Shahriar crackdown

A Revolutionary Guards veteran who fought in Syria helped command a deadly crackdown on protesters in Shahriar near Tehran, as security forces used coordinated lethal tactics across Tehran province during nationwide protests in January, an Iran International investigation found.

Poverty pushes Iranian children into hazardous border work

Economic hardship and a lack of stable jobs are driving children and teenagers in Iran’s border regions into kolbari, the hazardous practice of carrying goods across mountainous frontiers for money, Iran's labor-focused news agency ILNA reported on Sunday.

Iran’s political prisoners are being executed. Why is supporting them controversial?

Iran’s political prisoners are being executed. Why is supporting them controversial?

A letter expressing solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners has ignited an extraordinary ideological backlash, raising concerns among human rights advocates about how political narratives and disinformation can shape perceptions of repression in Iran.

Iran sentences 27-year-old mechanic to death over alleged Mossad ties

Iran sentences 27-year-old mechanic to death over alleged Mossad ties

An Iranian court has sentenced a 27-year-old mechanic to death on charges including cooperation with Mossad and moharebeh, or “waging war against God,” the Hengaw human rights organization reported.

‘State-sponsored theft’: UN representative calls out rising seizures from Iran’s Bahá’ís

‘State-sponsored theft’: UN representative calls out rising seizures from Iran’s Bahá’ís

Iran’s rising wave of raids, arrests and property seizures against Bahá’ís amounts to “state-sponsored theft,” the Bahá’í International Community’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva said, citing hundreds of incidents since the January crackdown.

Iran sentences woman detained during January protests to death

Iran sentences woman detained during January protests to death

A court in Iran has sentenced Leila Abolhassani, a 43-year-old mother of two teenage daughters detained during the January protests in the central city of Shahin Shahr, to death on charges of “waging war against God,” a source familiar with her case told Iran International.

Who is Abolfazl Shekarchi, the Iranian general calling journalists military targets?

Who is Abolfazl Shekarchi, the Iranian general calling journalists military targets?

The Iranian general who has threatened Persian-language journalists abroad as potential military targets has a history of incendiary attacks on critics and was among officials who initially dismissed reports that Iran had shot down Flight PS752.

Iran sentences two more protesters to death as executions surge

Iran sentences two more protesters to death as executions surge

Two more protesters detained during Iran’s nationwide demonstrations in January have been sentenced to death, US-based rights group HRANA reported, amid a rise in executions and capital sentences following the unrest.

Iran flogs two women detained in January protests

Iran flogs two women detained in January protests

Iranian authorities flogged two women detained during January’s protests 31 times each before transferring them to prison to serve custodial sentences, according to rights groups.

Family of detained British couple in Iran urges UK action after embassy return

Family of detained British couple in Iran urges UK action after embassy return

The family of a British couple detained in Iran called on the UK government on Wednesday to arrange an urgent consular visit and medical checks, saying British diplomats had yet to see them since the embassy returned to the country last week.

Tehran mosques used to surveil, shoot at January protesters

Tehran mosques used to surveil, shoot at January protesters

Iranian security forces used mosques across Tehran to deploy personnel, monitor protesters and support operations during the January crackdown, evidence obtained by Iran International shows.

He spent a decade helping vulnerable children. Iran handed him 31 years

He spent a decade helping vulnerable children. Iran handed him 31 years

A 46-year-old Baha’í who devoted more than a decade to helping some of Iran’s most vulnerable children has been handed prison sentences totaling 31 years after a trial in which his family says he was denied a lawyer.

Iran executes another January protest detainee

Iran executes another January protest detainee

Iran executed another detainee from the January protests after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, the judiciary announced on Sunday.

The hidden toll of Iran crackdown: disability, chronic pain, opioid dependence

The hidden toll of Iran crackdown: disability, chronic pain, opioid dependence

The Islamic Republic may want the world to forget what happened in January, but the bodies of those who survived make that difficult.

Iran Supreme Court upholds political prisoner's death sentence - rights group

Iran Supreme Court upholds political prisoner's death sentence - rights group

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of 24-year-old political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi, who was convicted of “baghi,” or armed rebellion, the US-based HRANA rights group reported on Friday.

Trans woman prisoner says she was raped in Iran Intelligence Ministry detention

Trans woman prisoner says she was raped in Iran Intelligence Ministry detention

Ghazal Marzban, a transgender woman held in Tehran’s Evin prison, says she was raped after being detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 2023 and later threatened into silence, according to a letter published by the HRANA human rights news agency.

With the war quieting, Iran's hijab crackdown gathers pace again

With the war quieting, Iran's hijab crackdown gathers pace again

The men who spent the war demanding control of the Strait of Hormuz have returned to demanding control of women's clothing. As the fighting subsides, Iran's hardliners are pressing to revive a hijab law the state itself suspended for fear of new protests.

Iran's top university expels student over toy rat that mocked Ali Khamenei

Iran's top university expels student over toy rat that mocked Ali Khamenei

A student at Iran's most prestigious technical university has been expelled and banned from all universities for four years over a stuffed rat hung from a campus tree, a toy that carried the nickname protesters gave the late supreme leader.

Iran executes fifth defendant over January protests in Isfahan

Iran executes fifth defendant over January protests in Isfahan

Iran executed Ghaem Hosseini, also known as Arian, on Thursday over his involvement in protests in the central city of Isfahan in January, making him the fifth person put to death in a case in which UN experts have raised concerns about the defendants' trials.

Pezeshkian admin says infiltration bill violates rights, could drive brain drain

Pezeshkian admin says infiltration bill violates rights, could drive brain drain

President Masoud Pezeshkian's government has formally opposed a bill aimed at countering foreign intelligence infiltration, saying it violates citizens' rights, restricts academic ties and could accelerate the emigration of Iranian experts and researchers.