Below is the full text of an editorial penned by Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammedi for Iran International on the occasion of the third anniversary of Mahsa "Jina" Amini's death in morality police custody:
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi praised Iranian civil society on the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, saying victims' families have kept the pursuit of justice alive by turning grief into a force for change.
The United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran, created after mass protests were crushed in 2022, has emerged as a rare instrument of accountability whose survival now rests on the political and financial will of the international community.
An Iranian court has sentenced Reza Seghati, the former head of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan province, to 100 lashes and exile in connection with a widely publicized same-sex scandal that cost him his post.
Iran executed political prisoner Babak Shahbazi on Wednesday, state-affiliated media reported, saying he had been convicted of spying for Israel.
Countless young Iranians whose lives were snuffed out in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests became enduring symbols of defiance — human faces for a movement that challenged the very foundations of the Islamic Republic.
The United States on Tuesday called on Iran’s leadership to move away from what it called bellicose rhetoric and focus on easing domestic hardships, saying Iranians deserve better after years of economic privations.
Iranian authorities have failed to investigate serious human rights violations committed during and after the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests and continue to shield those responsible, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
One person was killed and three others wounded in an armed clash at a gold mine in Saqqez, a Kurdish-majority city in northwestern Iran, local authorities said Monday, while a human rights group blamed government forces for the shooting.
Iranian security bodies summoned and threatened families of people killed in 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini in morality police custody ahead of the third anniversary, source told Iran International.
Iranian authorities have summoned 10 citizens in the northeastern city of Sabzevar to face charges linked to protests over repeated power and water cuts, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Monday.
Iranian authorities have shut down a cafe-restaurant in northern Tehran for allegedly serving alcohol and permitting dancing, state media reported, the latest in a string of closures targeting businesses accused of violating public morality rules.
Iran executed a Shia cleric convicted of killing his secretary’s husband in the southwestern city of Behbahan, the US-based rights group Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Sunday.
Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi says the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022 spurred a generation in Iran that no longer remains silent in the face of repression.
Iranian women artists, writers and political figures marked the third anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, whose case ignited nationwide protests under the slogan Woman, Life, Freedom, saying the movement she inspired remains alive and has reshaped society.
Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentences of six men accused of involvement in the killing of a Basij militia member during the 2022 protests in Tehran’s Ekbatan neighborhood, their lawyer said ahead of the uprising's third anniversary.
Australia and New Zealand marked the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death with statements to Iran International reaffirming their support for Iranian women and condemning human rights violations by the Islamic Republic.
Five years after Iran executed champion wrestler Navid Afkari, the Islamic Republic continues to silence athletes and protesters alike—making action against its repressive sports authorities imperative.
The United States, Canada, Australia and their European allies on Friday condemned Iran for escalating a campaign of transnational repression, accusing its intelligence services of seeking to kill, kidnap and harass political opponents overseas.
The United States on Friday expressed solidarity with Iranian people, saying in a message marking the fifth anniversary of Tehran's execution of wrestler Navid Afkari that Washington backed their struggle for freedom.
Talks on a prisoner swap between Iran and France were in their final stage, state media reported late Thursday, and potentially involve French detainees in Iran and an Iranian woman jailed in Paris.
A onetime Iranian security chief whom a lawsuit accuses of torturing anti-Shah dissidents transferred more than $20 million abroad before fleeing to the United States in 1978, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing leaked diplomatic documents.