A group of schoolgirls in Iran have been flogged because their parents owed less than eight pounds in school fees, according to an opposition group in the country. Ten girls from the Mokhtarabad village in the country’s ...
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian judiciary to quash a death sentence against a 22-year-old woman accused of murdering her husband, whom she said had repeatedly abused her. Zeinab Sekaanvand was arrested in February 2012 and convicted ...
Iranian judges have ordered a young female writer and activist to serve a six-year jail term for writing an unpublished fictional story about stoning to death in her country. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee received a phone call on ...
Political prisoner Mohammad Abdullahi and five other Kurds were executed in Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported. Abdullahi, 35, married, from the city of Bokan, Kurdistan Province, northwest of Iran, was ...
Miners have been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging by the oppressive Iranian regime. The miners, from Bafq Iron Ore Company, had been condemned for their union protest in 2014. Bafq is situated in the central Iranian province ...
(New York) – Iran’s judiciary should vacate the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who faces imminent execution for Facebook posts linked to his account. On November 24, 2014, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling ...
Iran hanged 21 prisoners on March 4th — 15 for drug offenses, 6 for alleged hostility to God. The names of the six Sunni Kurds hanged for political reasons were released. The names of the drug offenders ...
Iran’s regime executed a gay adolescent in July – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic Republic in 2016 – Amnesty International reported this week. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in ...
Every man in an Iranian village has been executed for drugs offences, a human rights group has claimed. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the country’s vice president for women and family affairs, claimed that men from Sistan and Baluchestan had ...
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have reported that 21 people have been hanged in Iran since Monday, one of which was in public. In the Central Prison of Urmia (Orumieh), north-west Iran, on Tuesday ...
To step off a busy northwest London thoroughfare into Richard Ratcliffe’s flat feels like passing through the wardrobe into the dark horror of a fairy tale. Three months ago, he was an ordinary middle-class accountant, living with ...
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