Mahsa Amini

Iran executes man accused of being an Israeli 'senior spy'

A United Nations report from January stated that the number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 in 2024, including 31 women.

 Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the death penalty in their home country and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be declared a "terrorist organisation", in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2024.
 Iranian woman holds a photo of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a rally that marks the 46th anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, on February 10, 2025.

Big Brother in Tehran: Iran's police state supresses women with AI, drones

 Iranian police force stands on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, July 16, 2023

Iran using drones, advanced tech in crackdown on women's rights, UN report says

Mehdi Yarrahi in Concert, Isfahan, Iran in 2017.

Islamic Regime rules musician to be flogged 74 times for hijab protest song, alcohol possession


Pardons for journalists who exposed Amini's death, fueled protests

Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini.

 Iranian Americans rally outside the White House on September 24, 2022, in support of anti-regime protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Failing Iranian state gives growing opportunity for regime change - opinion

Iran is more vulnerable and desperate than at any time since its rise to power in 1979. Now is the time for Iranians to topple the regime and pave a pathway to a free, democratic, and unified state.

 IRAN’S AYATOLLAH Ali Khamenei meets with then-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in Tehran, in May. Iran’s implosion is largely the result of its overextended $1 billion per year proxy program, and Iran’s Syrian vassal has collapsed, says the writer.

Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi granted short medical leave from prison in Iran

Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, who resides in France with their children, criticized authorities for delaying necessary medical care.

Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture.

Iranian woman strips clothes in protest after being assaulted for improperly wearing hijab - report

University officials claimed that the woman was suffering from "severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder."

 The young woman who stripped in protest after allegedly being assaulted for improperly wearing a hijab.

Official tied to brutal protest crackdowns in 2022 appointed new governor of Tehran

Motamedian, who worked for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, was accused of overseeing mass arrests and authorizing the use of lethal force during the Iran protests in 2022.

 Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran, September 16, 2024.

New sanctions: US targets 12 individuals in Iran for sanctions over alleged human rights violations

US State Department stated that they are issuing the sanctions in coordination with Australia and Canada, who are also rolling out new sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations.

People enter the State Department Building in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017.

Iranian film to open Haifa International Film Festival

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

 A SCENE from the Iranian film ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig.’

Iranian police shoot, paralyze woman over hijab law violation

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.

 Iran's police forces stand on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023.

'If you want to execute Mohammadi, dig two graves': Iranian labor activist sentenced to death

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

 Sharifeh Mohammadi, from a post to Facebook.

Iran top court overturns rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence, lawyer says

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 rapper Toomaj Salehi

'The West is next': Iranian activist visits Israel, takes on Iran threat, UN hypocrisy

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.

 An anti-Israel billboard is seen next to the Iranian flag during a celebration following the IRGC attack on Israel, in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2024.