Experts say security forces have shown “a flagrant disregard for human life,” after a protest movement against the Islamic ...

Judges connected to Iran’s clerical leaders and security services are meting out long prison terms and death sentences, in an ...

The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of top security official Ali Shamkhani, suggests an ongoing power struggle ...

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far this year as part of a surging use of the death penalty to create fear amid protests that have been shaking the country, Norway-based Iran Human ...

Iran Human Rights stresses that its statistics do not include the four protesters executed and "those who died in suspicious ...

Iran has charged 16 people, including several teenagers, in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia for planning ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian authorities have stepped up detaining Sunni clerics in the Kurdish areas following a strongly worded video statement by dozens of influential religious scholars ...

The “Mahsa moment” has left an indelible mark on Iran’s political landscape, delegitimizing the regime and the core pillars ...

The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported the execution without ... fraught ties with Iran, has been fiercely critical of Tehran's crackdown on anti-government protests, sparked by ...

The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest by Iran's notorious morality police more than four months ago has sparked the biggest protests in the Islamic republic in years.

The actions are the latest response to Iran's deadly clampdown on unrest after the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa ...

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far in 2023, a rights group said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country.