Human Rights

Private clinics in Iran have been demanding that nurses commit to remaining unmarried and childless as a hiring condition amid growing staffing shortages, the country’s nursing chief said on Sunday, describing the practice as unlawful.

Iran’s judiciary has placed what it calls the fight against nudity and improper hijab at the center of its enforcement agenda, warning that organizers and permit-issuing bodies for events deemed to violate law or Sharia will be prosecuted, judiciary-affiliated Mizan News said.

Six years after Iran’s blackout and mass killings, two women keep alive the month the Islamic Republic tried to bury.

Iran’s judiciary chief instructed prosecutors nationwide to work with security and police agencies to identify what he called “organized groups linked to foreigners” involved in “social irregularities,” escalating the state’s campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab.

A joke about a 10th century Persian poet Ferdowsi landed an Iranian female comedian a six-month prison term and mandatory homework on the bard amid the Islamic Republic's broader pivot toward nationalism following the June war with Israel.

Canada disrupted multiple potentially fatal plots by Iranian intelligence services targeting perceived enemies on Canadian soil, spy chief Dan Rogers said on Thursday.

A Christian convert detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison was denied adequate medical care after suffering a spinal fracture from a fall, London-based rights group Article 18 reported.

A British couple held in Iran on spying charges have begun a hunger strike inside Evin prison, their son told the BBC on Thursday, saying his mother described the move as her only means of protest.

An Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday accused senior officials of nepotism and corruption after a 20-year-old student set himself on fire when municipal workers moved to demolish his family’s food kiosk.

The intelligence wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a security operation targeting 400 people linked to Iran Academia, an online platform offering free Farsi courses in social sciences and humanities, state media reported on Wednesday.

The son of a British couple jailed in Iran on spying charges has implored the UK government to secure their release before Christmas, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

More than 270 Iranian and non-Iranian scholars and civil society activists on Tuesday signed an open letter that denounces the recent arrests and summons of prominent leftist intellectuals in Iran, calling the detentions arbitrary and unlawful.

The intelligence division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday it had dismantled what it described as a spy network directed by US and Israeli spy agencies inside Iran.

A 20-year-old man in Ahvaz in southwest Iran who set himself on fire as municipal workers moved to demolish his family’s food kiosk last week died on Tuesday, Iranian media reported.

A Canadian woman is speaking out after her aunt and uncle were arbitrarily arrested in Iran with no charges, simply, she says, because of their Baha'i faith.

Iranian authorities have arrested five people including a district mayor and a municipal enforcement officer in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, after a young man set himself on fire following the demolition of his family’s kiosk, state media reported.

The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday urged Tehran to end what it described as a growing crackdown on journalists, scholars and writers who highlight social and economic injustices following the recent arrests of several leftist intellectuals.

A women’s sports coach has been detained in Tehran after performing acrobatic moves in public without wearing a headscarf, a human rights group said on Monday, as Iranian authorities continue to enforce the country’s mandatory hijab law.