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Iran's General Prosecutor expressed regret that a number of "divine punishments" are set aside to save Iran from being condemned by international bodies. In comments carried by the Fars News Agency, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said that…

Ministry of Health raised alarm bells regarding prevalence of malnutrition in Iran's southern port city of Chabahar. Cited by the state-run IRNA news agency on January 15, Reza Ezzatian, a Health Ministry official said: "39,000 children…

Human rights activists in Iran reported that an innocent man is among 12 prisoners executed January 9, at Raja’i Shahr prison in Karaj, Alborz province. All the 12 men had been sentenced to death on murder charges but human rights group…

Payam Derafshan, an attorney to the prominent Iranian civil rights activists and lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, announced on January 14, 2019, that Sotoudeh has once again been held incommunicado in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Her husband…

Kurdish rights activists say Iranian security forces opened fire on a group of Iranian Kurdish men - working as porters importing goods from neighboring Iraq - killing one and injuring two others. Reports from the Center of Democracy…

Parvaneh Salahshouri, head of the women’s faction in the regime’s parliament, spoke about child marriages in Iran stating Six per cent of Iranian girls get married between 10 and 14. In a meeting in Tehran on child marriages, according…

A man was hanged in public in Falavarjan, on Tuesday, the judiciary's website Mizan reported. The man identified as Mohammad Javad Shams had been found guilty of murder and rape. The execution was carried out in Falavarjan, in Isfahan,…

Iranian security forces secretly buried the body of Zahra Navidpour at a cemetery in a small village.Reports indicate that security forces smuggled out the body of Zahra Navidpour from the coroner’s office before an autopsy is done and…

Iran on Sunday hanged 3 men sentenced to death for armed robbery, all of them executed in public in front of a crowd of onlookers, Iranian judiciary's website Mizan reported. It took place on January 13, in the city of Yasuj,…

Iranian labor activist Esmail Bakhshi's letter concerning torture, persecution, and maltreatment at the country's prisons, provoked a wave of revelations about torture committed against political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. …