Iran Protests Escalate After Abadan Tragedy, With Calls for Regime Change
By Roshanak Astaraki
Anti-government protests across Iran have escalated since the start of the Persian New Year in March. Despite a brutal crackdown by the security forces, demonstrators have poured out into the streets of...
UK ‘Desire To Appease Tehran’ Is Impeding Sanctions for Human Rights Abuses, Lawmaker Says
By Natasha Phillips
The British government has refrained from imposing sanctions on alleged human rights abusers in Iran to avoid upsetting Tehran during the nuclear negotiations in Vienna, said Steve McCabe, a member of the opposition Labor party...
Iran Executes 26 People in 10 Days Amid Protests, Human Rights Expert Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s judiciary executed at least 26 people in 10 days to discourage nationwide anti-government protests, according to Professor Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights (IHR).
In a press...
Iranians Mourn Building Collapse Victims as Protests Continue
DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) - Mourning ceremonies were held late into the night on Tuesday for the 37 people killed in a building collapse in southwestern Iran, as authorities sought to quell week-long protests over the disaster,...
Protestors Chant Anti-regime Slogans Over Iranian Building Collapse
May 31 (Reuters) - Protesters in several cities in Iran chanted anti-government slogans overnight, including "death to Khamenei", over a deadly building collapse in the southwest of the country, videos posted on social media showed.
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Officials said the death...
Violence Mars Iran’s Day of Mourning for Building-Collapse Victims
DUBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - A day of national mourning to commemorate victims of a collapsed building in the Iranian city of Abadan turned violent over the weekend, as demonstrators clashed with police, according to videos of...
Iran Security Forces Fire Shots at Protestors Over Building Collapse as Death Toll Rises
DUBAI, May 28 (Reuters) - Iranian police used tear gas and fired shots in the air to disperse another night of protests over a deadly building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan that officials are...
No Dogs, No Men – Iranian Capital Imposes Gender Segregation
Men are being denied entry into some public areas in Tehran in order to abide by strict segregation rules imposed by the Iranian government. According to locals, a sexually abusive gender segregation plan has arrived...
Iran Ramps up Arrests of Foreign Nationals Amid Political Tensions With the West
By Natasha Phillips
Human rights organisation Amnesty International said it had “mounting evidence” that Iran’s government had engaged in hostage taking through its detention of Iranian-Swedish researcher Ahmadreza Djalali. Amnesty International made the comment in a May...
UN Rights Office Urges Iran to Halt Imminent Execution of Swedish-Iranian Academic
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office's spokesperson on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali and reverse his death sentence.
Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency has reported that Djalali,...
