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Iran: Dissident Wins Award for Besieged Writers

Human Rights Watch: The Iranian author Taqi Rahmani, who has spent a total of 17 years in prison, was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant for...

A journalist banned from working for two years, a daily suspended and nine journalists summoned

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemned government hounding of the press after an independent journalist was given a six-month suspended sentence, a daily...

Iranian journalist banned from work

AFP: An Iranian journalist has been banned from working for two years and given a six months suspended jail term over a magazine article,...

U.S. issues damning human rights report on Iran

Iran Focus: Washington, Feb. 28 – The United States issued a damning report today on Iran's human rights violations as part of its 2004...

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...

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The German Government Will Not Receive the Son of Iran’s Last Shah

Following reports of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, traveling to Germany to attend...

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...

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The Times: Iran has publicly hanged two male teenagers...