Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent human rights activist, has described the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign by female prisoners as a "civil movement capable of expanding across Iran".
Amnesty International has raised alarm over the imminent risk of execution faced by two political prisoners following their transfer from Tehran’s Evin prison to Ghezel Hesar prison in Alborz province on Sunday.
Tehran's Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against political commentator Sadegh Zibakalam following a speech he delivered in Doha which has enraged the government.
The year 2025 began with festive fireworks and colorful lights around the globe. In Iran, it was marked by the execution of at least 19 individuals across the country, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR NGO).
The United States for the first time ever spared Iran criticism for its human rights record at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Friday.
President Donald Trump’s decision to pause all US foreign aid has left human rights activists concerned about its impact on Iran-related programs, with some saying the order could help Tehran further restrict its people’s access to information.
An Iranian official at United Nations on Friday denied that the country detains journalists or civil society figures, even as a rights group reported nearly 400 cases of judicial and security actions targeting journalists and media outlets last year.
Families of Iranian political prisoners executed in the 1980s have been barred from entering Khavaran Cemetery in Tehran for more than 11 months, they said in an open letter to Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Amnesty International has launched an urgent action campaign to halt the execution of six Iranian men sentenced to death following what the rights organization described as a grossly unfair trial.
Iran's government faced widespread criticism at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva over its treatment of women and girls, use of capital punishment and suppression of dissent.
Iranian authorities say two girls were detained by police, after they recorded themselves dancing at a Tehran monument honoring those who died in the Iran-Iraq war.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning what it called Iran's systematic human rights abuses, highlighting the use of the death penalty against Kurdish activists Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi.
The European Parliament has adopted a motion for a resolution condemning Iran’s detention of European Union citizens, labelling the practice as “hostage diplomacy.”
President Masoud Pezeshkian’s strategic deputy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, has come under heavy criticism by Iranians following his remarks at the Davos Summit, where he said the government has relaxed hijab enforcement in Iran.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi called on France's Senate to support the criminalization of gender apartheid and prioritize the fight for human and women's rights in Iran in a video call from Tehran on Thursday.
Ten Baha'i women were arrested on Wednesday to serve the jail terms they had been handed over in October, the Hengaw human rights organization reported, as the crackdown on the Baha’i minority continues.
Iranian rapper Vafa Ahmadpour, better known as Vafadar, was released from Tehran's Evin Prison on Sunday, over eight months after he was arrested on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
Iran's Judiciary on Sunday dismissed a report by state-run media that it had sentenced Amirhossein Maghsoudloo, a famous and controversial singer better known as Amir Tataloo, to death on charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad.
Retired workers staged protests over low pensions on Sunday, which they said amount to less than one-third of the poverty line, and voiced frustration over soaring healthcare costs and inequitable pension adjustments.
Judges Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, assassinated in Tehran on January 18, had decades-long histories of handing down death sentences and lengthy prison terms to dissidents in numerous cases.
A Iranian dissident rapper arrived in Berlin on Friday after being temporarily released on medical furlough from a prison in Tehran, where he was previously sentenced to death.
Two French nationals have spent nearly three years in Ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, their freed compatriot said, a secret detention facility notorious for harsh conditions which is operated by the country’s intelligence ministry.