Several teachers in Iran's Kordestan province have been dismissed on what authorities described as security-related charges and removal of compulsory hijab, a media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Saturday.
At least 160 people were executed in Iran over the past month, according to a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which warned that the pace of executions in the country is accelerating.
Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities on Friday of “destroying vital evidence” of crimes against humanity by converting a section of Tehran’s main cemetery containing graves of executed dissidents into a parking lot.
UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned what they called Iran’s intensifying campaign of repression against journalists working for Iran International and the intimidation of their families, particularly after the 12-day war with Israel.
Authorities in the central Iranian city of Isfahan have begun seizing homes and assets from members of the Bahá’í religious minority by text message—an unprecedented move a community spokesperson called “economic strangulation” that has mostly targeted women.
A reformist-leaning Iranian Telegram channel on Wednesday published the names of 64 women it said are jailed for political reasons, challenging Iran's judiciary chief who said no more than five such detainees exist.
Iran’s communications minister confirmed on Wednesday that widespread disruptions to GPS and internet services were linked to “security considerations” and said raising tariffs for mobile operators had become unavoidable to sustain services.
A warehouse disguised as an industrial facility in Shahin Shahr, Isfahan, is being used as a secret prison where hundreds of Iranian inmates are held in inhuman conditions under the management of a Revolutionary Guards cooperative, the Iran Human Rights Society said on Tuesday.
A section of Tehran’s largest cemetery holding executed dissidents from the early 1980s has been turned into a parking lot, Iranian officials have confirmed.
Iran’s economy is reeling from an acute labor shortage following the mass deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants, with key industries such as construction and agriculture struggling to function.
Iran hanged a man in public on Tuesday after he and his wife were convicted of murdering a mother and her three children during a robbery in October 2024, judiciary's outlet Mizan reported.
A court in Tehran has sentenced women’s rights defender Hasti Amiri to three years in prison on charges that include propaganda against the state and appearing unveiled in public, she said in a post on Instagram.
Court cases against Iranian teachers detained in protests remain unresolved and the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian has not altered its approach toward labor demands, a teachers’ union spokesman told the reformist daily Sharq.
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, despite what her lawyer described as unresolved flaws in the case.
More than 20 members of Iran’s Baha’i minority in the central city of Isfahan have had their homes, assets and vehicles confiscated in recent weeks, in some cases being informed only by text message, the Baha’i International Community (BIC) said on Wednesday.
A Shi'ite summer school camp in England, known as Camp Wilayah, has been cancelled due to what its organizer described as safety threats, following accusations by a right-wing political party that it has ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The US State Department on Thursday called on Iran to stop its ongoing assaults on journalists and independent media, including threats targeting reporters and their families across the world.
Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she is receiving death threats that are openly coming from Iran’s intelligence agents.
A federal court in the United States has rejected multiple motions by Parviz Sabeti, a onetime security chief in pre-revolutionary Iran, to dismiss a landmark lawsuit accusing him of aiding and abetting the torture of dissidents in the 1970s.
Two refinery workers in southern Iran died of suspected heatstroke while on the job amid soaring summer temperatures, Iranian media reported.
Ontario’s top court has upheld a ruling that Ukraine International Airlines must pay full compensation to the families of passengers killed when Iran shot down Flight PS752 in 2020. But families say the ruling doesn’t diminish Iran’s responsibility.
The Iranian Baha’i community has faced systematic repression, arrests, and nearly 1,500 years in prison sentences over the past five years, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).