2021 Report on International Religious Freedom: Iran
Shabtabnews - US state department in its annual Report on International Religious Freedom in Iran, once again highlighted Iranian Regime's…
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Iranian Filmmakers Threatened By Authorities After Backing Anti-Government Protests
RFL/RE - Scores of Iranian filmmakers and artists who penned an open letter in support of anti-government protesters have been…
Minister Threatens To ‘Punish’ Iranians Who Worked on Award-Winning Film Holy Spider
RFL/RE - Tehran has threatened to punish Iranians who worked on the film Holy Spider, a movie inspired by the…
Rights Groups Concerned After Iran Detains Poet Ghaleh-Golab During Protest Over Building Collapse
RFL/RE - The Writers' Association of Iran and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed concern over the arrest…
Iranian Rights Defender, Journalist Receive Death Threats In Prison, Lawyer Says
RFL/RE - A prominent Iranian human rights advocate, Narges Mohammadi, and photojournalist Alieh Motalebzadeh have received death threats while in…
Spectre of a New Fatwa: Why Iranian Media is Up in Arms About ‘Holy Spider’
Iranwire - For three days now, Iran's conservatives and state-aligned media have been engaged in a relentless attack on Ali…
Silence will doom Iranians to become a generation facing ongoing tyranny
Al-Arabia - Simon Wiesenthal lost eighty-nine family members in the Holocaust. On the verge of starvation, he almost became number…
Iran Walls In Cemetery ‘Of The Damned’ As Trial Exposes 1980s War Crimes
RFL/RE - For decades, the grieving relatives of thousands of political prisoners and regime opponents who were killed in the…
Death Toll Reaches 37 In Abadan Building Collapse As Iranians Continue Protests
RFL/RE - The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in the Iranian port city of Abadan has…
Payman Sobhani: The Untold Story of a Baha’i Teenager Killed by Fanatics in Iran
Iranwire - In 2008, the Baha’i International Community published the names of 221 Iranian Baha’is who had been murdered or…