The Week in Review: December 23rd – December 30th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 30.12.22
Dec. 30 - At least 100 people in Iran have been sentenced to death or charged with offenses carrying the death penalty for taking part in the country’s nationwide protests,...
Iran’s Government Penalizes Medical Professionals for Supporting ‘National Uprising’
By Firouzeh Nordstrom
A wave of nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died while in the custody of the morality police on Sept. 16....
COMMENTARY: Never Has the Iranian Diaspora Seemed So United and Hopeful
By Cyrus Kadivar
When I published my memoir Farewell Shiraz in the autumn of 2017, my readers seemed to relate to the glamorous world described on its pages, violently destroyed by a revolution led by...
Iranian Protesters Are Tortured, Raped and Killed in Prison, Rights Group Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
According to human rights groups, many people arrested since the start of nationwide protests in Iran more than three months ago have suffered physical, sexual, and psychological torture while in detention.
The...
The Week in Review: December 16th – December 23rd
Dec. 23 - Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Iran’s government was a partner in Russia’s “genocidal policy” by supplying drones which experts said were being used in the illegal invasion of Ukraine.
The comment was made...
At Least 39 Protesters in Iran Risk Execution; UN Launches Investigation
By Natasha Phillips
The United Nations Human Rights Council announced the members of its fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran on Dec. 20, a mission set up to investigate the Iranian government’s handling of anti-regime...
Iran’s Oil Minister Hospitalized After Heart Attack
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iran’s Minister of Petroleum, Javad Owji, was hospitalized after a heart attack on Dec. 5, the Tehran-Based Borna news agency reported.
He was attending a meeting on the government’s 2022-23 budget when...
Iran Officials Arrest Five Athletes for Alleged Bomb Plot at Shah Cheragh Shrine
By Kayhan Life staff
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization has arrested five athletes in Shiraz, the capital of the southwestern province of Fars, for allegedly planning to detonate a bomb on Oct....
The Week in Review: December 9th – December 16th
KayhanLife · Flash Briefing 16.12.22
Dec. 16 - Iran was expelled from the United Nations’ top commission on gender equality this week, following international condemnation of the regime’s treatment of women and girls in the...
