Iran Human Rights

Father and son sentenced to death in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 27 – A middle-aged man and his teenage son are facing imminent execution after Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death...

European Parliament censures Iran rights violations, calls for special representative to monitor sit

Iran Focus: Brussels, Feb. 25 – The European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution condemning Iran's human rights violations and called on the European Union...

Another blogger gets jail sentence

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned the Iranian authorities for confirming a six-month prison sentence and one million rials (85 euros)...

Journalist and weblogger sentenced to 14 years in prison

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage after journalist and weblogger Arash Sigarchi was sentenced to 14 years in prison on 22 February...

Iran editor jailed for insulting leaders

Reuters: An Iranian journalist has been jailed for 14 years on charges ranging from espionage to insulting the country's leaders in an unusually heavy...

The price paid for blogging Iran

BBC: Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online diary. Web logs have become a popular forum for dissent. And the...

Hunger strike in Iran prison enters third week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 17 - A hunger strike by seven political prisoners in Iran's Rajaii Shahr prison near Karaj (west of Tehran) has...

Appeal court confirms prison for cyber-dissident while blogger is reimprisoned

Reporters Without Borders: Condemning the imprisonment of two Iranian Internet users in the past 10 days, Reporters Without Borders said Iran was undergoing the...

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Turmoil in the pharmaceutical and medical supply market and the emergence of brokers on the streets of the capital...

Iranians Struggle to Afford Basic Food Basket as Prices Surge

While only about five months have passed since the implementation of the plan to remove subsidized foreign currency rates...

Iran’s Inflation Crisis: A Monster Nurtured by the Power Structure

Iran’s inflation crisis is no longer a temporary phenomenon but has become a chronic and structural condition. Contrary to...

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Iran’s Inflation Crisis: A Monster Nurtured by the Power Structure

Iran’s inflation crisis is no longer a temporary phenomenon...

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