Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Receives Award for Campaign Against Death Penalty
By Ahmad Rafat
The Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was awarded the Robert Badinter Award at the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty on Nov. 18 in Berlin.
The event was sponsored by the...
Iranian Cabinet Drafts Citizenship Bill for Children with Foreign Fathers
President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet drafted a bill on November 4 which, if passed by the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) and the Guardian Council, would grant citizenship to children younger than 18 born to Iranian mothers...
Israel Says ‘Denuclearized’ Korean Peninsula Helpful Versus Iran
By Daniel Bases
NEW YORK, April 27 (Reuters) - Friday's historic pledge by the leaders of the two Koreas to work to denuclearize the Korean peninsula should give U.S.
President Donald Trump a stronger hand to renegotiate the...
Iran’s Majlis Research Center Highlights Government’s Failed Anti-Poverty Measures
The latest report by the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Research Center has highlighted an increase in the country's poverty rate to 30 percent in 2018, as well as the failure of government anti-poverty measures such...
U.S. Republicans Seek Sanctions on Iraqi Militias with Iran Ties
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Republican U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday seeking to counteract what they see as Iran's increasing influence in Iraq, amid concern about attacks in Iraq by groups...
Iran Says It Executes Leader of Women Trafficking Network
May 20 (Reuters) - Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighbouring countries for prostitution.
It said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as "Alex”, was the...
Brother of Human Rights Activist Masih Alinejad Says She Warned the Family About a...
In a video published last September, Alireza Alinejad, the brother of human rights activist Masih Alinejad, said his sister told family members that there had been a plot by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to lure her to...
Iranian Lawyer Payam Derafshan Brutally Tortured in Prison, His Attorney Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
In a series of tweets, Saeed Dehghan, the attorney for Payam Derafshan, an imprisoned litigation lawyer practicing in Tehran, has alleged that his client was arrested in June 2020 and tortured...
Twitter Account Names Children Allegedly Killed by Iranian Authorities
By Kayhan Life Staff
On June 27, the human rights Twitter account @1500tasvir published the names of several children who have allegedly been killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s police, security, and military forces...
Hillary Clinton Joins Public Campaign Against Iran’s Presence on UN Commission
By Firouzeh Nabavi
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined a group of Iranian-born activists and artists on Nov. 28 to demand that Iran be removed from the United Nations Commission on the...
