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Iran Supreme Court upholds death sentence for teenage boy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for a 17-year-old schoolboy over the murder of his...

Official: A dozen Iranians die daily from drug addiction

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 - About a dozen people die every day in Iran from drug addiction, the equivalent of one death...

Amnesty calls for release of trade unionist from Iran jail

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 – A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who...

Iran FM due in Bahrain next week

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to visit the oil-rich state of Bahrain next week. ...

Quakes jolt north-east and south-west Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 – Two quakes measuring 3.5 and 3.6 on the Richter scale shook parts of the Iranian provinces of...

Iran hangs three men, one woman

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged four people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on...

UN condemns human rights violations in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 19 - The United Nations General Assembly accused Iran on Tuesday of continuing the practice of torture and punishments such...

Iran student arrested after reporting to court as summoned

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 - An Iranian student was arrested earlier this week after reporting to the country’s moral police as...

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Free Iran 2026 Summit in Paris Draws International Support for Democratic Change in Iran

PARIS, June 20, 2026 — Political leaders, former government officials, parliamentarians, and human rights advocates from Europe and North...

Iran’s Water Crisis: Women on the Front Lines of a Silent Disaster

Iran’s water crisis is no longer merely an environmental or economic challenge; it has become one of the country’s...

Child Laborers: The Silent Victims of Poverty and Inflation in Iran

On June 15, the state-run Shargh newspaper published a report on child labor titled "Childhood on a Work Shift,"...

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Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Marks 125th Week

On Tuesday, June 16, the "No to Executions Tuesdays"...

Volker Türk: At Least 40 People Executed on Security-Related Charges in Iran

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