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Iran to Execute Mentally Disabled Woman

Associated Press: Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran planned to execute a mentally disabled 19-year-old woman for "acts contrary to chastity,'' referring to alleged...

Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran

The Independent: A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only...

Teenage sex slave sentenced to death

Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to...

Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F

Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, “Leyla M”, who has a mental age of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for “morality-related” offences after being...

Iran government voices concern over journalist ‘confessions’

AFP: Iran's reformist government admitted Monday that it was concerned over how the hardline judiciary managed to exact written apologies and confessions from several...

Iran Human Rights Conference, Exhibition in Paris Draws Crowds

Iran Focus: Paris, Dec. 11 – A three-day exhibition of a quarter-century of human rights violations in Iran, sponsored by over 30 European...

Iranian woman journalist freed on bail, hospitalised

AFP: An Iranian woman arrested in a judicial crackdown on reformist journalists was freed on bail but needed hospital treatment due to her detention,...

‘I was tortured for saying the flogging must end in Iran’

The Independent: The treatment of Arash Nassouri was brutal. "They hung me upside down and handcuffed me with a bar under my knees," he...

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700,000 Jobs Lost in Iran as A Result of War

While the fate of the war in the region remains uncertain, reports from Iran indicate a suffocating livelihood crisis...

Iran: How Pahlavi’s Name Stole the January 2026 Uprising

In the biting cold of mid-January 2026, the air in Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Square was thick with the scent of...

Escalating Executions in Iran Put EU Policy Under Scrutiny

A conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 22, 2026, brought renewed attention to the escalating...

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The Naval Blockade And the Structural Fracture of Iran’s Economy

The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has now...

Rental Crisis in the Shadow of War; Livelihood Deadlock for Iranian Tenants

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