Iran

A number of those arrested during last January's protests over the downing of a Ukrainian plane have been sentenced to prison.

Five Amol citizens, named Shura Fekri, Meysam Khalili, Mohsen Rezaei, Salman Farrokhi, and another person named…

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Repression and violation of the rights of religious minorities in Iran; a Christian convert was sentenced to prison and flogging

Mari Mohammadi, a Christian convert in Iran, was sentenced to three months and one day in prison by the Tehran Provincial Criminal Court and…

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Amnesty International protests the execution of Shayan Saeedpour

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Shayan Saeedpour as prohibited under international law and described it as a sign of the Islamic Republic's vindictiveness...

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Press freedom in 2019: Norway best, Iran at the bottom of the table

Norway has topped the 2019 Reporters Without Borders press freedom rankings for the fourth consecutive year…

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Iran, along with China and Russia, has also been spreading disinformation about the origin of Covid-19.

According to a new report prepared by the U.S. State Department's Center for Global Engagement and reviewed by Politico...

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Narrative of a citizen in Isfahan: My mother died of coronavirus, but they wrote it was cancer

Masoud Borjian, a cultural and social activist living in Isfahan, posted his mother's death certificate on Twitter, saying that the cemetery authorities where she...

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Amnesty International: Iran has the highest execution rate in the world after China

Amnesty International reported in its annual report on the death penalty in the world that in 2019 Iran…

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A journalist in Iran was fired for criticizing Environmental Protection Agency officials.

Zeinab Rahimi, an environmental reporter for ISNA News Agency, following criticism of the Director General of Public Relations of the Environmental Protection Agency in…

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