Prisoners in Tehran’s Evin prison blocked guards from transferring political inmate Ehsan Afrashteh for imminent execution on espionage charges, leading to a tense standoff inside the facility, former inmate and activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said on Tuesday.
Attempts by Afghan citizens to cross illegally into Iran have doubled over the past six months compared with the same period last year, a senior Iranian border commander said, as Tehran accelerates deportations and tightens control along its frontier with Afghanistan.
Toomaj Salehi, one of Iran's most prominent rappers, has hit out at the treatment of three fellow artists whom Iranian police videos showed shirtless with shaved heads giving what appeared to be forced confessions on alleged crimes.
Iran acquitted dual German-French national Lennart Monterlos of espionage charges linked to the recent 12-day conflict, the head of Hormozgan Province’s judiciary said on Monday.
A court in Tehran has sentenced three prisoners of conscience from Iran’s ethnic minorities, including a woman, to death on charges of waging war against God, Norway-based rights group Hengaw said on Sunday.
Authorities shut down a sports club in central Iran for holding mixed-gender exercise sessions and arrested the organizers of a “coffee party” on Kish Island amid an ongoing struggle between clerical rulers and the public over social freedoms.
An Iranian man recently deported from the United States described to Iran International grim scenes of neglect and mistreatment in US custody before being chained on a flight to Tehran where fellow detainees attempted suicide to resist return.
Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a 30-year-old boxing coach arrested in March 2020 protests over gas price hikes, his lawyer said Saturday, hours after the execution of seven other political prisoners.
Iran’s judiciary executed seven political prisoners, including one Kurdish man in Sanandaj, western Iran, and six ethnic Arab inmates in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province in the south, on Saturday, according to the judiciary’s official news agency.
Erfan Qaneifard, an Iranian political activist and author, has been in a Texas immigration detention center for six months and faces possible deportation to Iran, his attorney told Iran International on Friday.
The United States deported two Iranian asylum seekers to Tehran against their will — shackling them on the flight and delivering them into the hands of the very authorities they fled, their attorney told Iran International.
A Tehran appeals court upheld prison terms totaling 41 years and 10 months for five Christian converts convicted on formal charges of violating Islamic law and spreading deviant propaganda.
An Iranian activist was among the travelers onboard a Gaza aid flotilla detained by Israel in recent days, ending a journey she chronicled in social media postings.
A verdict looms for a British tourist couple tried in Iran over the weekend on espionage charges just as Tehran's relations with London plumb new lows over a European move to impose new international sanctions.
An attorney representing two Iranian nationals alleged on Wednesday that US authorities deported his clients to Iran without due process, placing them at risk of persecution, ABC News reported.
The United States on Wednesday accused Iran of gross human rights violations following the deaths of three women in prison, the deteriorating condition of an imprisoned activist on hunger strike, and the looming execution of a Kurdish political prisoner.
A new investigation has revealed how Iranian security forces relied on global supply chains and intermediary companies to obtain weapons later turned on protesters during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned restrictions imposed by Iran’s judiciary on media coverage of European-triggered international sanctions imposed on Iran over the weekend.
Armored and military vehicles were deployed across Zahedan and other cities in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province on Tuesday as authorities tightened security for the third anniversary of the September 30, 2022 Bloody Friday killings, local outlet Haalvsh and residents said.
Curbs to prenatal screenings and abortions in Iran’s 2021 Youth Population law have contributed to the doubling of Down syndrome births, according to a report by Shargh newspaper.
The United States deported a planeload of over 100 Iranians to Tehran in one of the Trump administration’s starkest migrant returns to a country with severe rights concerns, marking a rare act of cooperation with Iran after months of talks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
UN experts expressed alarm on Monday at what they called an “unprecedented” surge in executions after over 1,000 people were put to death so far this year, warning they likely violated international law.