Mohammadi’s Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Courage of Iranian Women, UN Rights Office Says
GENEVA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed activist Narges Mohammadi highlighted the courage and determination of Iranian...
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mohammadi Says Global Support Makes Her ‘More Hopeful’ -NYT
DUBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said in a statement to the New York Times on Friday that global support and recognition of her human rights advocacy makes her "more...
Iran’s Tasnim Newspaper Denies Armita Geravand’s Mother Was Arrested
By Parisa Hafezi and Elwely Elwelly
DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - An Iranian rights group said that security forces on Thursday arrested the mother of a teenage girl who was in a coma in hospital following a...
Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
By Gwladys Fouche and Tom Little
OSLO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Imprisoned Iranian women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic's condemnation.
The award-making...
Iran Regime Says US, UK, Germany Express “Insincere Concern” Over Iranian Women
DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Iran hit back at Western criticism of its treatment of women on Thursday amid reports by rights groups that a teenage girl was in critical condition in hospital and in a coma...
Rights Group Says Mother of Armita Geravand Arrested in Iran
DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The mother of Armita Geravand, Shahin Ahmadi, has been arrested by Iranian security forces, the Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw said on X platform on Thursday.
There has been no official confirmation yet...
Sexual Abuse of Boys Highlighted in Documentary on Iran
By Natasha Phillips
A new documentary titled “Can I hug you?” by the awardwinning director Elahe Esmaili and her husband Hossein Behboudirad — who produced the film — aims to highlight the sexual abuse of...
Iran Protesters Mark Anniversary of Bloody Crackdown in Southeast
DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Protesters faced off with security forces in Iran's restive southeast on Friday to mark the anniversary of a Sept. 30, 2022, crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday", according to rights...
Calm Returns to Iran Prison After Protest by Inmates
DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Order has been restored at a prison in southwest Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported on Friday, after prisoners reportedly started a fire to protest against a fellow inmate's death sentence and shots were heard.
"The prison...
Nobel Peace Prize Could Honour Iranian Activists
By Gwladys Fouche, Ilze Filks
OSLO/STOCKHOLM, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but experts say campaigners for women, Indigenous peoples or...
