“No To Execution” Hunger-Strike Movement Spreads Across Iran and Abroad
Iranwire - A sharp rise in executions in Iran has sparked a passionate call from Iranian civil society to abolish…
30,000 Iranian Disabled Children Are Left Out of School, Official Says
Iranwire - An Iranian deputy education minister has said that approximately 30,000 children with disabilities are unable to attend primary…
Report: Beijing Wants Tehran to Tell Houthis to “Show Restraint”
Iranwire - China has asked the Islamic Republic of Iran to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red…
Tehran Student Handed Prison Term Amid Clampdown on Universities
Iranwire - The Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced a Master's student in economics at the University of Tehran to…
Elderly Iranian Prisoner Hospitalized After Heart Attack
Iranwire - An Iranian woman prisoner in her 70s was rushed from Tehran's Evin prison to a hospital after suffering…
UN Rights Chief Alarmed by “Sharp Spike” in Use of Death Penalty in Iran
Iranwire - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says he is alarmed by the “sharp spike” in the…
US Warned Iran of ISIS-K Threat Ahead of Deadly Blasts, US Official Says
VOA - The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry…
Iranian Dissidents Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Hangings
VOA - Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile went on a hunger strike Thursday to protest…
Ahmad Asgarat Executed with Mohammad Ghobadlu and Farhad Salimi
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Ahmad Asgarat, a man on death row for murder, was executed with political prisoners Farhad…
Iran: Amid Surging Executions, Civil Society Registers Unprecedented Plea to Abolish Death Penalty
CHRI – The surge in executions in Iran has triggered a passionate call from Iranian civil society, amplified by a mass…