Killed more than 500, executed 7 as of May 2023 and detained nearly 20,000
Activists Nasrin Sotoudeh Nasrin Sotoudeh, 60, is a human rights lawyer in Iran. She has represented imprisoned Iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential elections and prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors. Her clients have
Activists Nasrin Sotoudeh Jafar Panahi, 63, is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved
Activists Narges Mohammadi Narges Mohammadi, 51, is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. In May 2016, she was sentenced in Tehran to 16 years’ imprisonment for
Almost 10 months after Mahsa Amini died in police custody, triggering weeks of protest across Iran, police vans are again patrolling the country’s streets looking for women who are not wearing the hijab “correctly”. Now, however, the vans and officers will not bear the name “morality police”, and patrolmen will be wearing body cameras. The announcement on Sunday followed widespread reports that unmarked vans had been spotted on the streets of cities such as Tehran and Shiraz, stopping people not wearing the hijab. The move has already prompted demonstrations: on Sunday, protesters took to the streets in Rasht after three women were reportedly arrested…
Food prices have almost doubled within a year, and increasing numbers of retired people are falling below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the government continues to invest heavily in the arms industry…
A petition calling for the release of Louis Arnaud, a Frenchman detained in Iran since the end of September, has collected more than 100,000 signatures in two weeks, his support committee said on Tuesday…
I’m a teenaged girl. And I want a future. I want happiness. I want a good life. I want a good home, good car, good – I don’t know – husband, maybe. I cannot have better future in this country, in this situation. So I think it’s for freedom. It’s for have a better future. It’s for have a better days. We don’t have them. So I just want a happiness and I don’t have it. No one have it…
Voices Iran protester: ‘You know that you might never come back’ Nick Robinson, BBC Today Protests in Iran are continuing despite a crackdown by security forces that one human rights group says has killed at least 201 people. The unrest erupted in response to the
A month and a half ago, protests erupted in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. The morality police regulate Iran’s strict dress code for women. And as a result of Mahsa Amini’s killing, protesters began pouring into the streets without the mandated head coverings…
Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,”…
The huge protest movement last year that posed the most significant threat to the Iranian regime in decades has abated — for now. But for those who lost loved ones or risked their lives during the brutal security response, the act of defiance goes on…
About 80,000 Iranians and their supporters have marched in Berlin, German police say, in solidarity with ongoing protests in Iran. Saturday’s rally in the German capital is believed to have been the biggest so far held by the Iranian diaspora. Iranians from across Europe chanted the slogan of the protesters “Women, Life and Liberty!”…
Widespread protests have engulfed the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan. This is yet another wave of protests against the Islamic Republic and its conservative political rule since 2009. At the same time, the Arab world has witnessed various waves of social movements starting in 2011…
The news of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody has sparked protests across Iran, mainly being led by Iranian girls and women. But it’s not the first time they have been at the forefront of revolution. The significant gains made for the rights of women under the dictator Reza shah, were all but changed during the 1979 Islamic revolution. And some of the powerful ways women are protesting now has its roots in Iran’s rich history…
Authorities in Iran have executed three men sentenced to death in connection with the nationwide anti-government protests last year, the judiciary says. The three were convicted over their alleged involvement in a gun attack that killed three security personnel in Isfahan in November. Amnesty International says they were subjected to unfair trials and allegedly tortured. Four other protesters have been hanged since December…
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