Human Rights

GENEVA, May 9 (Reuters) - Iran has executed 209 people so far this year, a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday, describing its record as "abominable" and calling for them to halt. "The U.N....

DUBAI, May 8 (Reuters) - Iran has executed two people who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy, the judiciary's news website Mizan reported on Monday, drawing an angry reaction from human rights group Amnesty International. https://twitter.com/NazeninA/status/1655173850047344640?cxt=HHwWgMCz2Zv2rfgtAAAA Yousef Mehrdad...

DUBAI, May 6 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, the Iranian judiciary said. The...

By Golnaz Fakhari April 27, 2023 -Analysis- Sexual violence, specifically rape, has been used as a tool to terrorize civilians in most, if not all, conflicts of the modern age. Evidence gathered on rape during conflicts since...

By Dr. Tahirih Danesh   Dr. Danesh is executive director of the Persia Educational Foundation, based in London, and a visiting lecturer in human rights law at the University of Roehampton in the U.K. The views...

By Katy Shahandeh Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist born in 1990 to parents who fled Iran in the mid-1980s for political reasons. Her father was a member of a left-leaning pro-democracy group who, while still...

By Kayhan Life Staff Hirad Abtahi is an international criminal justice lawyer with 25 years experience who currently serves as chef de cabinet (chief of staff) to the Presidency of the United Nations International Criminal...

By Natasha Phillips Iran ranked 177th out of 180 countries for press freedom, followed by Vietnam, China and North Korea, according to a new index published on May 3 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). An additional document,...

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Canada imposed additional sanctions on Iran on Wednesday over human rights violations within the country and abroad, the government said in a statement. https://kayhanlife.com/society/human-rights/iran-executed-more-women-in-2022-than-any-other-country-report-says/ https://kayhanlife.com/society/human-rights/elahe-tavakolian-who-lost-eyesight-in-iran-protests-bears-witness/ https://kayhanlife.com/society/human-rights/irans-government-resorts-to-security-cameras-ostracism-to-deter-unveiled-women/ (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; editing by Susan Heavey)

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, May 2 (Reuters) - Wary of re-igniting Iran's worst political turmoil in years, the country's rulers are resorting to new, less obtrusive tactics to punish women who refuse to wear the obligatory Islamic hijab. The...