Mahsa Amini

The 40th Haifa International Film Festival opens October 15 with 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof.

Police had been ordered to impound the car of 31-year-old Arezou Badri as she had been seen driving with her hair exposed - but fired on the car when she refused to stop.

Sharifeh Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since December 2023, has not been granted visits and phone calls by family members.

Salehi's songs supported protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for allegedly wearing an "improper" hijab.

Iranian human rights activist Lily Moo visited Israel, toured the site of the Nova festival massacre and issued a warning of what Iran would bring to the West.

Mahmoud Mehrabi is the latest in a series of activists arrested in connection with the 2022 protests who have been sentenced to death.

Nika Shakarami disappeared at a protest in Tehran in September 2022 before her body was found a few days later.

Videos from Iran showed women struggling as "Morality Police" officers tried to shove them into vans in widespread arrests.

United Nations fact-finding mission finds that the death of Iranian national Mahasa Amini in 2022 was caused by violence, systematic violence against women is still occurring throughout the country.

The activist and her family were repeatedly threatened by the regime during the protests that swept Iran in 2022.