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Iranwire Exclusive: IRGC Intelligence Blocks Female Referee at Tehran Derby

Iranwire - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization has prevented a woman referee from officiating a football match…

Tehran Court Rejects Parole for Environmental Activists After 6 Years in Jail

Iranwire - A court in the Islamic Republic has declined the parole request of four incarcerated environmental activists, their lawyer…

US Senator Cruz: Iran’s Treatment of Jailed Iranian German Dissident ‘Barbaric’

VOA - U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of an Iranian German dissident…

Juvenile Offenders Executed in 2023

Iranhr.net - This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the…

Iranian Woman Succumbs to Domestic Violence as Husband Shoots

Iranwire - A 27-year-old woman from a village in northwestern Urmia was killed by her husband, IranWire reports.  The woman…

Executions for Drug-related Charges in 2023

Iranhr.net - This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the…

Executions for Adultery and Blasphemy in 2023

Iranhr.net - This is an extract from the 2023 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran. To read the…

Kurdish Mansour Mansouri Executed in Ilam

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- Mansour Mansouri, a Kurdish man on death row for murder, was executed in Ilam Central Prison…

Iran Politician Warns About ‘Clashes’ If Hijab Fine Implemented

iranintl - An Iranian lawmaker says women are outraged over lawmakers' proposal to directly deduct cash fines from their bank…

‘I’m a Woman. I Stand by My Beliefs’: Iranian Women Continue to Defy Clerical Establishment

Iranwire - A video of a young woman protesting a cleric in a clinic in central Qom has recently sparked widespread debate…