Saturday, April 4, 2026

Iran’s Judiciary Confirms Rapper Toomaj Salehi Death Sentence

DUBAI, April 25 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary confirmed the death sentence of well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi but added that he is entitled to a sentence reduction, state media reported on Thursday. Salehi's lawyer Amir Raisian told...

Iranian Director Rasoulof’s Cannes Film Born of Tussles With Justice System

By Hanna Rantala and Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 24 (Reuters) - Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Friday that his Cannes Film Festival competition entry, about a court official's family during his country's 2022 protests, was born out...

Norwegian Parliament President Masud Gharahkhani Supports Iran’s Democracy Movement

By Firouzeh Nabavi The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran, was absent from the recent ceremony held in her honor in Oslo: Her Nobel Prize...

Islamic Republic Cracks Down On Women In Hejab Enforcement Operation

By Kayhan Life Staff On April 13, Iranian security forces, including the Basij (volunteer militias) and units from an Iranian state board on moral propriety -- the Enjoying Good and Forbidding Evil HQ -- began...
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Teenager Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh Was Tortured to Death in Iranian Prison, Hengaw Says  

By Natasha Phillips Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh, a 16-year-old Kurdish boy arrested in November 2022 during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests in Iran, died on Jan. 4 of injuries sustained while being tortured in prison, the human...

Iran’s Government Executes Four People It Says Are Linked to Israeli Intelligence -State Media

DUBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iran carried out the death sentences of four people on Monday that it says were linked to an Israeli intelligence operation, after the Supreme Court rejected their appeal, Iranian state media reported. https://twitter.com/KayhanLife/status/1751857706544328861 https://twitter.com/ICHRI/status/1751400296951984260 The defendants...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls for Regulation of Cyberspace

DUBAI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest...

UN Mission Meets Victims, Survivors of Iran’s 2022 National Protests

By Kayhan Life Staff Members of the United Nations’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran have met with survivors and victims of the protests that erupted in Iran in 2022 and...

After Zeraati Stabbing, More Iran International Journalists Are At Risk in UK, Channel Says 

By Natasha Phillips At least six journalists working for the Iran International television network in the UK are at risk of harm from the Iranian regime, according to Adam Baillie, the spokesperson for the London-based...

Iran’s Minorities Disproportionately Targeted in Crackdowns, UN Mission Reports

By Natasha Phillips Ethnic and religious minority groups in Iran have suffered more than the rest of the population from the government’s crackdowns on the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests which began in 2022, according to an Aug....