Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right ...

Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison for religious activities, including prayer, ...

A British woman being held in an Iranian jail on spy charges has been put on a drip as her condition worryingly deteriorates. Couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in Iran on ...

The five include two former prisoners of conscience, Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian and Christian convert Nasser ...

A young woman who endured years of horrific domestic abuse was sentenced to death in a trial that has been criticised by ...

The women's rights activist, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was arrested by Iranian security services at a memorial, ...

Iranian authorities subjected detainees held in Evin prison, including arbitrarily detained human rights defenders and dissidents, to ill-treatment and violence during transfers out of Evin prison ...

Brother of peace laureate Narges Mohammadi says she described how police hit her in face, head and neck with truncheons, ...

"Iran has always been brutal toward its critics but the current wave of repression in Tehran has a scent of panic," writes ...

Iran is escalating its repression of Baha’is, with a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations.

On October 9, 2019, Iranian Baha’i computer engineer Azita Rafizadeh was released from Evin Prison after serving a four-year prison sentence in connection with her Baha’i faith. At the time of her ...

Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency ...