By Vivian Yee and Leily Nikounazar Iran is once again deploying police officers on the streets to enforce A spokesman for Iran’s police force, Gen. But the hijab is too important a symbol of Iran’s ultraconservative Islamic system of government for That evening, several photos of police officers and the white vans they use to transport detainees to Shiva, 44, a translator in Tehran who asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid legal repercussions

Amnesty says, are awaiting execution following their involvement in the "Woman Life Freedom" uprising in Iran Amnesty International reported last month that 853 people were executed in Iran in 2023, a record number

mandatory headscarf walks past a mural in Tehran in February.Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran The campaign began last month just as military tensions spiked between Iran and Israel. consequences,” Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran “Women and girls in Iran are already subjected to severe discrimination in Iran, yet these actions significantly Tehran police chief Abbasali Mohammadian announced the operation on state TV on April 13, just as Iran

Strengthen Protections, End Asylum Pact with US A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz It allows US immigration authorities to transfer non-Salvadoran asylum seekers to El Salvador, instead But for some groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, El Salvador provides shut down the government’s sexual diversity work, and refused to support legal gender recognition for trans Despite the landmark conviction of three police officers in July for killing a trans woman, violence

This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. Digikala, informally known as “Iran’s Amazon,” appears to have run afoul of the rules by posting pictures The company boasts more than 40 million active monthly users and hosts over 300,000 merchants. The website of Iran’s Hamshahri daily, which is affiliated with the municipality of the capital, Tehran The website of Iran’s judiciary said court cases had been filed in connection with the photos, without

Iran's national flag flies in the capital, Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP] Iran’s persecution of its Baha Human Rights Watch alleged in a report released on Monday that Iran’s largest non-Muslim minority has sources, including government policies, court documents, and interviews with Baha’is in and out of Iran Unlike other minorities, Baha’is do not have their faith recognised by Iran’s constitution and have no How many members of the community remain in Iran is not known, but activists believe there could still

The three named prisoners and one other person were transferred on Thursday from Evin Prison, one of The United States will also transfer nearly $6 billion of Iran’s existing assets in South Korea, putting A key part of the agreement has been the Biden administration’s willingness to transfer the billions The people familiar with the financial arrangement insisted that the transfer to allow Iran access to to transfer $6 billion from South Korea had already started.

Markus Schreiber/AP CNN — Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination It cited a report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran set up by the UN Human Rights Council to look at claims of deteriorating human rights conditions in Iran Protests erupted across Iran again in September last year on the first anniversary of her death. the mission found, adding that victims face a justice system lacking “independence, transparency and

120,000 Armenian Christians Are Trapped as Azerbaijan Takes Nagorno Karabakh Christian Solidarity International emergency response at today’s UN Security Council meeting: An immediate humanitarian airlift to evacuate trapped

The mourners who gathered in Yazd last month and in many other cities across Iran diverged unexpectedly from the script to target the clerical rulers of Iran, turning religious ballads into protest songs , Iran, Iran!” For centuries Ashura has been more than just a religious ritual. From Iran, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and beyond, it has served as a celebration of Shiite Muslim

Iranian lawmakers attend an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. © AP Photo / Vahid Salemi DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Monday began registering candidates Iran has held regular presidential and parliamentary elections since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran saw months of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was Iran has been mired in a severe economic crisis since then-President Donald Trump withdrew the United

Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. looking into the demonstrations that followed the death of Mahsa Amini found brutality and rejected Iran The fact-finding team, which was set up at the end of 2022, was refused access to Iran. The worst abuses, the mission found, were carried out in unofficial places of detention run by Iran’s The news came a day after Iran released on bail two journalists who helped break Amini’s story.