Saturday, November 23, 2024

Amnesty International Reports on Iran’s Crackdown to Enforce Hijab, Including Vehicle Confiscation

By Natasha Phillips More than a million women have been threatened with confiscation of their vehicles since April 15, after surveillance cameras caught them driving without their headscarves on, Amnesty International said. The findings, published in a...

Iranian Chess Player Who Removed Hijab Gets Spanish Citizenship

MADRID, July 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian chess player who moved to Spain in January after she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her at home has been granted Spanish citizenship, Spain...

Protester Ahmad Batebi, Face of Iran’s 1999 Revolt, Speaks to Kayhan Life

By Ahmad Rafat Tehran University students staged a mass protest on July 9, 1999, after the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence shut down the Salam newspaper for publishing a secret memo by the former deputy intelligence...

Call For Un Rights Chief To Prevent Execution of Iranian Boxer

GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Dozens of rights activists as well as prominent lawyers and former prosecutors have written to the U.N. Human Rights chief urging him to intervene to try to prevent the execution of...

Iran’s Government Tightens Curbs on Dissent

https://kayhanlife.com/iran-protests/irans-government-must-stop-executions-of-protesters-says-un-fact-finding-mission/ By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests...
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Iran’s Morality Police Resume Hijab Street Patrols

REUTERS/KL: The head of police in Iran, Saeed Montazer Al-Mahdi, on Sunday (July 16) announced the revival of the morality police's hijab patrols. STORY: "From today, police patrols will be established throughout the country. In addition...

Survey By California-Based Institute Shows Most Iranians Oppose Islamic Republic

By Natasha Phillips The vast majority of Iranians are against their country being an Islamic Republic, according to a July 5 survey conducted by the California-based Empirical Research and Forecasting Institute (ERFI). Titled “Unveiling the Layers:...

Iranian Rapper To Be Jailed for Six Years, Avoiding Death Sentence – Lawyer

DUBAI (Reuters) - Well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who supported the protest movement that sprang up in Iran last year, has avoided a death sentence and been jailed for six years and three months,...

Iran Hangs Two Men Over Deadly Shrine Attack – State Media

DUBAI, July 8 (Reuters) - Iran executed two men on Saturday over an attack on a Shi'ite shrine that killed at least 13 people in October and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, Iranian state media reported on...