Sadegh Zibakalam is in trouble again for criticizing Iranian foreign policy.

Sardar Pashaei, the coach of the Iranian national youth wrestling team, said his sister Leila Pashaei was arrested for ...

Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior, a human rights watchdog reported on ...

An anonymous official told Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency that the flogging came as punishment for possessing alcohol - ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

Yarrahi, 43, released the song a year after the Women, Life Freedom movement in 2023, which was sparked by the death of ...

a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being detained for violating Iran's hijab laws and beatedn. Amini's death sparked mass women-led protests, which Yarrahi supported.

Human rights activists are being arrested at random and the smallest protests are being brutally suppressed, even if they were organized by Iranian war heroes.

Notably, the strict hijab law came despite the nationwide protests which broke out in Iran in September 2022, and were sparked by the death of a Kurdish woman, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, in the custody ...