ANALYSIS: How Iran Systematically Persecutes Artists, Rappers
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s trial was held on Jan. 12 at branch102 of Shahin Shahr’s criminal court in the central province of Isfahan. A few hours before the start of the court...
France Demands Tehran’s Immediate Release of French-Iranian Academic Adelkhah
PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, whom Tehran has sentenced to five years in prison but was recently living under house arrest, has once again been incarcerated, France's foreign ministry said...
British Council Confirms Release of Iranian Employee Amiri
DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Aras Amiri, an Iranian employee of the British Council, has arrived back in the United Kingdom after an Iranian court lifted her travel ban over her spying sentence, the UK resident's...
Iran’s Parliament Approves Massive Spending Package for Population Growth
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Majlis (Iranian Parliament) has approved an item in the government’s 2022-23 proposed budget bill which allocates 19 trillion tomans (nearly $634 million, using the market exchange rate of 300,000 rials...
Dissident Iranian Poet Dies After Catching COVID in Prison Twice
DUBAI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died of COVID-19 in a hospital in the capital Tehran after being released on a furlough from prison where he was infected...
Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Summoned by Revolutionary Court
By Ahmad Rafat
Toomaj Salah, who in recent months has become the most popular rap artist in Iran, has been ordered to appear in a revolutionary court on Jan. 12 in Shahin Shahr, in the...
Victims of Downed Ukrainian Airliner To Be Remembered in Canada Tribute
By Natasha Phillips
Passengers who died on board Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan. 8, 2020 — after Iran shot down the jet — will be commemorated at a Toronto-based ceremony on the second anniversary of the...
Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Is Accused of Spying for Saudi Arabia
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian authorities have accused Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and vice president of the Tehran-based Defenders of Human Rights Center, of spying for Saudi Arabia, her husband Taghi...
Iranian Retirees Stage Nationwide Protests Over “Meager” Pensions
By Kayhan Life Staff
Thousands of retirees held protests across the country on Dec. 28, calling on the government to raise their “meager” pensions in line with the Civil Service Management Law, inflation rate, and...
French Tourist Jailed in Iran Goes on Hunger Strike
PARIS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Benjamin Briere, a French tourist jailed in Iran on spying charges since spring 2020, has begun a hunger strike, his lawyer and sister said in a statement on Monday.
French authorities remain...
