Father of Killed Protester Handed 18-Year Prison Sentence
Iranwire - The Iranian authorities have sentenced Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of a 27-year-old man killed in a crackdown on…
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Iranian Man Arrested on Mahsa Anniversary Given Five Minutes to Presents Last Defense
Iranwire - Iranian judiciary authorities have summoned Mehdi Towhidi, a protester arrested on the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death,…
Iranian Ex-Bodybuilding Champion Handed New Prison Sentence
Iranwire - An Iranian court has sentenced former bodybuilding champion Khaled Pirzadeh to five years and eight months imprisonment on…
Iranian Woman Defiant Despite ‘Medieval’ Flogging For Hijab Violation
RFL/RE - The lashes to Roya Heshmati's body have triggered renewed condemnation of Iran's harsh punishments against women for alleged…
Iranian-German Citizen Taghavi Released On Furlough From Evin Prison
RFL/RE -An Iranian-German citizen imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison has been released on a furlough, though she has to…
Children Used as Hijab Enforcers in Tehran Metro
Iranwire - Authorities in Tehran are using children to enforce mandatory headscarf rules for women in the city’s metro stations,…
Jailed Iranian Women Journalists Restricted from Outside Contact after Protest
Iranwire - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned punitive measures imposed on three female journalists incarcerated in…
Iranian Protest Singer Yarrahi Sentenced to Prison, Flogging
Iranwire - Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian singer who released a song last year criticizing compulsory headscarf rules in the country,…
Iranian Authorities Amputate Fingers of Two Theft Convicts
Iranwire - Since the beginning of the year, judicial authorities in Iran’s Qom province have amputated the fingers of two…
Mohammad Hossein Geravand and Kiumars Gholami Executed in Karaj
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Mohammad Hossein Geravand and Kiumars Gholami, two men on death row for drug-related charges, were…