Iran Human Rights

Amnesty: Lawyer in Iranian stoning case released

AP: Amnesty International says the lawyer defending a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran has been released from a detention center in...

Iranian lawyer, seeking asylum, surfaces in Turkey

Wall Street Journal: A prominent Iranian human-rights lawyer, Mohamad Mostafaei, has fled to Turkey and applied for asylum after Iranian authorities issued a warrant...

Death row Prisoner of Conscience challenges Iran’s rulers

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 05 - The following is the text of a statement released by Ali Saremi, 62, a political prisoner currently on...

Iran to hang man in public for killing officer

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 03 - A prisoner by the name of Hamid Moghaddas has been transferred from Ward One of Gohardasht Prison in...

Prisoner hanged in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 03 - Reza Mohajer, a prisoner in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran), was hanged at dawn on Monday,...

Brazil’s plea for asylum for Iranian facing stoning seems to fail

New York Times: Iran’s conservative establishment appears to have reacted coldly to an entreaty by Brazil’s president to allow an Iranian woman convicted of...

Iran guards attack political prisoners on hunger strike in Evin

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 01 - Anti-riot units and Special Forces barged into Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after learning that prisoners in Ward 350...

China, Iran are world’s top executioners

Voice of Russia: China and Iran are holding the world lead in the number of executions. A report published by the Italian group Hands...

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US Preparing for a Long-Term Blockade of Iran’s Ports

The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, reported that US President Donald Trump has ordered preparations for a long-term...

War Economy and Stagflation in Iran

Unemployment and inflation in a war for which the Iranian regime is the primary cause are no longer merely...

Transfer of a death-row political prisoner to solitary confinement in Urmia, Iran

Punitive transfer of death-row political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh to solitary confinement in Urmia Prison Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a political prisoner sentenced...

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Iran War: Escalating Drug Shortages and Disruption of Healthcare Services

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