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.
UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Mai Sato said the movement born from Mahsa “Jina” Amini’s death in Iran’s morality police custody remains alive four years on, despite another deadly crackdown and continued enforcement of mandatory hijab rules.
Iranian authorities blocked the Instagram account of a Tehran restaurant after it posted an apparent play on two terms that have become politically charged for the Islamic Republic: “Bibi” and “cutlet.”
At least eight women are facing death sentences in prisons across Iran, including four in cases linked to the nationwide January protests, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) rights group reported on Sunday.
An Iranian court has handed down a death sentence to a man detained in connection with the January 2026 protests in the northeastern city of Shandiz, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Sunday.
Anthropic said Iranian paramilitary and security units used Claude to surveil thousands of Iranians and identify opposition and diaspora accounts, while a separate MEK-linked operation used the AI to impersonate an activist and profile people inside Iran.
Iran has executed at least 29 people arrested in connection with the widespread protests in January, more than half of whom were not accused of killing anyone, with some put to death in public in what rights groups describe as a campaign to deter further dissent.
Marziyeh “Sevda” Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, a 33-year-old blogger from Bandar Abbas who has been detained since March, has been sentenced to death, according to information obtained by Iran International.
Soaring food prices in Iran are increasingly reflected in reports of theft, with groceries appearing in cases ranging from first-time shoplifting to warehouse raids and armed robbery.
Tehran’s governor has called for schools used by other state bodies to be returned before students begin the new academic year, months after military and security forces deployed at schools during the US-Israeli war.
An Iranian protester shot in the leg during January’s demonstrations remains unable to walk after 23 operations, with further treatment ahead, medical bills mounting and concerns for his safety persisting months after the shooting.
Iran is putting two faces of its justice system on display: highly publicized acts of compassion for thousands of prisoners, alongside an execution campaign that has killed hundreds and continues to put protesters on death row.
Rows of black body bags became one of the defining images of Iran’s deadly January 2026 crackdown, as families searched among covered bodies and thousands of photographs for relatives killed or missing during the unrest.