The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran says she is monitoring the case of a young Iranian woman who was forcibly detained after protesting the country’s mandatory hijab by removing her clothes at Tehran's Azad University.
A senior official representing Iran’s Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has criticized President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government over enforcement of the latest controversial hijab legislation.
Gazelle Sharmahd, daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and US resident, is raising urgent questions about the reported death of her father, who had been detained in Iran since 2020.
A female Iranian student was arrested on Saturday for removing her clothing in protest after reportedly being assaulted by security forces at Tehran's Islamic Azad University over improper hijab.
In her first reaction to her father’s sudden execution in Iran this week, Gazelle Sharmahd was mute but spoke volumes with her silence.
A report by the United Nation's new special rapporteur on Iran’s human rights highlighted the country's fraught record and called for increased transparency and accountability from the government.
Iran's leading Sunni cleric Mowlavi Abdolhamid has welcomed the government’s appointment of a Sunni ethnic Balochi as governor of the Sunni-majority Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
Iran cut off four fingers of the right hands of two brothers convicted of theft on Tuesday as the government continues its onslaught of amputations.
The European Union announced it is considering targeted and significant measures against Iran following the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and US resident, who was hanged this week.
Germany has recalled its ambassador to Iran over the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and US resident, and summoned the Iranian chargé d'affaires as global condemnation grows over the killing.
Iran executed Jamshid Sharmahd, a 68-year-old software developer and California resident who also held German citizenship, the Judiciary's news agency said on Monday, two days after the biggest Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic in its history.
This week, Iranian authorities once again closed access to the ancient city of Persepolis and the tomb of one of Persia's most celebrated rulers to prevent Iranians from gathering to honor Cyrus the Great.
Following a protest by a vigilante group on Wednesday opposing calls to lift internet restrictions, a prominent politician has gained support by calling for the right to free assembly for internet freedom advocates.