Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released from prison in Iran because of the coronavirus outbreak, her husband says. The British-Iranian charity worker will be required to wear an ankle tag and remain within 300m (984ft) […]
An asylum seeker who wrote a book via Whatsapp from inside a detention centre has finally left the island where he was held for six years by Australia. Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurd, arrived in […]
Iran’s judiciary says it has sentenced a British-Iranian woman and an Iranian man to 10 years in prison after convicting them of spying for Israel. The woman, who was named as Anousheh Ashouri, was also […]
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, her family say. Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all […]
A prominent Iranian businessman, known as the “Sultan of Bitumen”, has been executed for bribery and corruption. Hamidreza Baqeri Darmani was found guilty of forging documents to secure state-backed loans. He then used front companies […]
Amnesty International has condemned the Iranian authorities for publicly flogging a man who was convicted of consuming alcohol when he was 14 or 15. Local media published photographs of the man – identified only as […]
Iran has detained 35 women for trying to attend a football match. They tried to go to a game between Tehran teams Esteqlal and Persepolis. Iran said they were temporarily held and would be released […]
A British-Iranian mother being held in Iran faces two more charges in relation to her alleged involvement in trying to overthrow the government. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, has served 19 months of a five-year term for […]
Six people said to be the administrators of ‘pirate’ movie site Tinymoviez have been arrested by Iranian authorities. What makes the case unusual is that it’s possible for such sites to be licensed by the […]
A semi-official Iranian news agency is reporting that Alireza Tajiki, a young Iranian man who was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death as a child, has been executed. Following today’s execution of Alireza Tajiki, Amnesty […]
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