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Several protesters were reportedly killed and dozens were wounded after the state police in two Iranian cities opened fire on protesters on Wednesday, March 21. The protests in two cities of Dezful and Andimeshk, 10 kilometers apart in…

Iranian authorities say they have arrested dozens of people on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year (which ends on 21 March). Speaking to state-run IRNA news agency late on Tuesday, Tehran’s Chief of police said that 23 people…

Since the beginning of March, Iranian regime has executed more than 13 inmates in various prisons. A prisoner identified as Jalaluddin Mosala Nezhad was publicly hanged in Jahrom, south of Iran, the state-run Tasnim news agency reported…

The Iranian Judiciary sentenced 23 members of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish minority to hefty prison terms and lashes. The dervishes have been sentenced to overall 190 years of prison, 46 years of exile, 1,776 lashes, a 46 year travel ban…

A father and son were executed in the prison of Birjand, capital of the southern Khorasan Province in eastern Iran. The prisoners, identified as Shir-Mohammad Naroui, 50 and Younes Naroui, 20 were hanged on drug related charges on Monday,…

A prominent human rights lawyer jailed in Iran has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, according to her husband. Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been in Tehran's Evin prison since last June, was sentenced to…

Four prisoners were hanged in the cities of Urmia, northern Iran, and in Zahedan, west of the country. Three of the prisoners, identified as Naji Omarzadeh, Khalil Salehi and Hossein Ebrahimi, were hanged on Monday, March 11, in Urmia…

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran singled out Iran’s crackdown on dissent and practice of sentencing children to death in a horrific defiance of international law, according to a new report published last week. Presenting…

Police in the central city of Arak arrested a young Iranian couple after a marriage proposal in public that was captured on a video clip that went viral on social media. The police said the pair had contravened Islamic principles but…

A prominent Iranian lawyer has been convicted on a range of charges after defending mandatory hijab protesters, according to her husband Reza Khandan. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been convicted of security-related crimes in a secret trial and…