Forbidden Freedom

Three teenagers have been arrested for posting “pornographic” material online, making them the latest to fall foul of Iran’s tight laws on “obscenity”.

On June 8, 2021, Iran’s Parliament passed the first draft of a bill that, if it becomes law, would impose the death penalty for those ...

Iran’s security forces have shot and killed an Iranian Kurdish man in a mountainous border region where he was working as a porter.

An Iranian man in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran was detained on June 13 after he spoke out against Iran’s Chief Justice and presidential candidate in a ...

A former London-based film director has been brutally murdered and dismembered by his parents in an honour killing after he returned to his home country ...

The mutilated body of Iranian film director Babak Khorramdin was discovered on the morning of Sunday, May 16 in a garbage bin in Ekbatan, a ...

Over the past few days nearly 6,000 people have signed a campaign calling on the speaker and members of Parliament to remove barriers surrounding the ...

The horrifying murder of a 20-year-old gay man in Iran has shed new light on how the criminalization of consensual same-sex sexual conduct and gender ...

The following is a roundup of the human rights situation in Iran for the month of April 2021, based on information from activists and state ...

Iran’s schools, which reopened on September 5, 2020, began on this date with the goal that perhaps teachers would be able to compensate the time ...

Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from service ...