By: Thomson Reuters Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency/Reuters) Iran's judiciary has sentenced three Iran hanged two other people on Saturday in its attempts to stamp out demonstrations, which have slowed Under Iran's Islamic law, treason is punishable by death. two other protesters, 22-year-old Mohammad Ghobadlou and 18-year-old Mohammad Boroughani, had been transferred

KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH (AP) The US has announced more than 500 new sanctions against Russia over its invasion powering Russia's war effort, developing the country's future energy production and its co-operation with Iran The EU has now listed more than 2,000 individuals since the war started. "They depend on us more than we depend on them." Its economy is around 1% larger than it was in February 2022.

Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS DECEMBER 08, 2022 DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran hanged a man on Thursday Western governments have also expressed dismay at the high number of executions in Iran. Iran has blamed the unrest on its foreign foes including the United States. Even before the recent unrest, executions had been rising in Iran.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran executed on Monday four men convicted of planning sabotage and alleged links with African country before entering Iran, it said. Iran and Israel have accused each other of spying and waging a shadow war for years. Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies it is seeking such weapons and has vowed a harsh response to any aggression.

, protesters demanding the ouster of Iran’s Islamic Republic have driven their uprising into a fourth Despite efforts by Iran’s security forces, including the feared plainclothes Basij militias, to crush The internet and popular communications applications in Iran have been disrupted for weeks, making it Iran’s security forces claimed she died of a heart attack, but her family said she had been killed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, at the police academy in Tehran, Iran, last week.

Emergency personnel transport the injured following a shooting attack at Iran's Shah Cheragh shrine in By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has come under a second deadly attack in less than a year with another gunman breaking into its grounds and opening fire. In early June, Iran executed two men said to have been in contact with ISIL operatives in neighbouring Last year’s assault on the shrine also came as Iran was rocked by nationwide protests that started in

failed to effectively address violence and entrenched discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Many said family rejection and discrimination led to economic marginalization, particularly for trans Pricila P., a trans woman from El Salvador, said police forced her off a bus and beat her. ruling in July 2020, a court in El Salvador convicted three police officers of murdering Camila Díaz, a trans through third countries before arriving at the US border; and a policy of transferring Salvadoran and

Iran has transformed its embassy in Yemen into a military base, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Iran is being accused of training newly recruited Shiite fighters, known as Houthis, in their embassy Hani Mohammed / AP The ministry condemned the move saying that Iran’s interference had become the main “Iran has made its embassy into a military facility and training grounds for the rebel militias. Mohammed bin Salman, who is wrapping up a foreign tour to world capitals and has repeatedly accused Iran

Damaged homes in Roshankouh, Iran. The village in Mazandaran Province, where Baha’i have lived for more than a century, was raided as part By Farnaz Fassihi Iran has begun a sweeping crackdown on its Baha’i community, a long-persecuted religious There were less than a handful of houses belonging to Muslim families, residents added. Dugal and interviews with members of the faith inside and outside Iran.

Women walk on the streets of Tehran as the country's morality police resume hijab patrols in Iran on Iran’s parliament would work on finalizing the text and voting on the bill “in the next two months,” Extreme punitive measures The hijab has long been a point of contention in Iran. Iran has traditionally considered Article 368 of its Islamic penal code as the hijab law, which states A 12-member council with considerable power in Iran, the Guardian Council is charged with making sure

Exhumed graves at a mass burial site in Izium, Ukraine. Credit: Nicole Tung for The New York Times KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian police have recovered 534 bodies of civilians in territory recaptured by the Ukrainian Army since early September, Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the regional police force in Kharkiv, said at a news briefing on Thursday. The bodies included 226 women and 19 children. Most of the civilian bodies recovered — 447 — were found in a mass burial site in Izium. The police have also discovered 22 locations that they suspect were used as torture chambers in areas of Kharkiv Province that were recently freed from Russian control, he said. Investigators have been gathering documents and other evidence from the sites and witness testimony, including from former detainees. “Russian units set up such places of detention of civilians and prisoners of war in almost all the settlements where they were based,” Mr. Bolvinov said. Ukrainian troops have recaptured nearly 500 towns and villages since Sept. 7 in a sweeping counterattack that has pushed Russian forces out of most of Kharkiv Province after nearly seven months of occupation. “The most common torture techniques were electric shocks and severe beatings with sticks and other objects,” Mr. Bolvinov said. “There are cases of pulling out nails and using gas masks to restrict breathing.” Most of the victims were residents who were detained for violating the nightly curfew or accused of acting as target spotters for Ukrainian artillery attacks. Regional police investigators showed where Russian forces held and interrogated prisoners in a basement in Kozacha Lopan, in northern Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Credit: Ivor Prickett for The New York Times In one instance, Mr. Bolvinov said, a pensioner from Izium traveled out of the city but then returned for personal reasons. After a Ukrainian artillery strike on Izium on Aug. 29 the pensioner was detained at his home and taken to the local police station, which Russian troops were using as a military headquarters, Mr. Bolvinov said. The building is one of the locations being investigated as a torture chamber. “People speaking with a Russian accent demanded to know who he was passing the coordinates to,” Mr. Bolvinov said, reading from the witness record. They hit the pensioner with a tube, breaking his arm, and pushed metal spokes from a bicycle wheel under his skin in the area of ​​his shoulder blades. After two hours of torture, the man lost consciousness from the pain, Mr. Bolvinov said. The police were also investigating a case in the village of Pisky-Radkivski, east of Izium, where a group of about 10 Russian soldiers, including a commander, set up a headquarters in a private house, Mr. Bolvinov said. They seized the home and two cars from a resident, he said. “We have witnesses who heard screams from the basement, pleas for help,” Mr. Bolvinov said. “Sometimes, after the screams, the locals heard bursts of shots, after which the screams stopped.” In the basement of the house, the police found ropes, Ukrainian army jackets, a gas mask, a dildo and a plastic container with dentures and gold teeth. Investigators also found records of testimony by Ukrainian prisoners. Mr. Bolvinov said the authorities were investigating whether the teeth were evidence of torture or had been taken from a dentist’s practice. The teeth have been sent for DNA analysis, he said. Mobile phones confiscated from local residents by Russian forces nailed to a tree in Kozacha Lopan, to deter others from trying to conceal phones during the occupation. Credit: Ivor Prickett for The New York Times © 2022 The New York Times Company

(Gailan Haji/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) BAGHDAD — Iran carried out deadly cross-border attacks Wednesday in headquarters of three Iranian Kurdish opposition parties who support the ongoing demonstrations inside Iran The Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran confirmed the deaths of two of its members, while the leader of for the protests in Iran, there is no indication they are directly connected to the unrest. “But in reality it’s public dissent by the Iranians, inside Iran, against the Iranian regime.”