ANALYSIS: Iran’s Workers Struggle With Low or Unpaid Wages, Fixed-Term Contracts
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian workers face serious challenges, including low wages, fixed-term contracts, unsafe workplace environments, job insecurity, and a lack of benefits.
Millions of Iranian households live under the poverty line. The current average...
Iran’s Invitation to Host UN Rapporteur on Sanctions Is a ‘Trick,’ Shirin Ebadi Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iranian Nobel Laureate and Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said an upcoming visit to Iran in May by Dr. Alena Douhan -- the UN’s Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures -- had...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Violated Women in Evin Prison, Former Political Prisoner Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped women detainees in Evin prison during official visits to the jail in 2009, according to former political prisoner Marziyeh Amirizadeh.
Amirizadeh was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for converting...
ANALYSIS: Iran Starts the New Year With Women’s Protests
By Ahmad Rafat
The Iranian New Year, 1401, started on March 21 with nationwide protests by women. Iranian women, who have been victims of systematic and legally sanctioned discrimination under the Islamic Republic for the...
OPINION: Iranian Trade Unionist Narges Mansouri Delivers Nowruz Message
I extend my congratulations to everyone, especially the great nation of Iran, on the occasion of the ancient feast of Nowruz and the regeneration of the planet Earth.
It is a matter of pride that...
ANALYSIS: UN Urged to Address Iran’s Human Rights Violations
By Natasha Phillips
Leading human rights organizations have called on the United Nations to address alleged human rights violations in Iran. The appeal was made in a March 24 letter addressed to member states of...
ANALYSIS: How Hostage Taking Is An Integral Part of Iran’s Foreign Policy
By Ahmad Rafat
Holding foreign nationals and Iranians with dual citizenship hostage, and demanding money or a prisoner swap for their freedom, has been an integral part of the Islamic Republic’s transactional foreign policy since...
US-UK National Moved Back to Iranian Prison, Daughter Says
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - An Iranian-American environmentalist who was released from an Iranian prison has been taken back to jail, one of his daughters told a news conference in London on Monday.
Britain said on Wednesday that Morad...
UK Parliament Is Urged to Open Inquiry Into Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Detention
By Natasha Phillips
Tulip Siddiq, the UK Member of Parliament representing the freed British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, has asked the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee to review the reasons why it took six years to release her constituent.
Siddiq made the announcement at...
Britain Says US-UK National Moved From Iranian Prison to Residential Location
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - An Iranian-American environmentalist who has been held in an Iranian prison has now been moved to a residential location, Britain's Foreign Office said on Monday.
Morad Tahbaz, who also holds British citizenship and whose family say he was born in Britain, had...
