Iran Court Upholds Jail Term for UK-Iranian Aid Worker, Lawyer Says
DUBAI, Oct 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on security offences, her lawyer was quoted by an Iranian news website as saying on...
Lawyer Urges Leave for Jailed Iranian American if Father Has Surgery
DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The lawyer for an Iranian American jailed in Iran for security offences urged Tehran to allow him to leave jail temporarily if his elderly father undergoes surgery in the...
World Marks Day Against Death Penalty; Iran Holds Second-Highest Execution Rate
By Ahmad Rafat
The 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty will be held on Oct. 10. Iran holds the second-highest record (after China) for executions in recent years.
This special day was initially organized in...
Lawyers Urge Iran to Let Iranian American Go Abroad for Surgery
By Arshad Mohammed
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Lawyers for an 84-year-old Iranian American, who was formerly imprisoned by Iran and whose son remains jailed there, urged Tehran on Monday to let him leave the country for medical...
Home of Iranian Activist’s Father Attacked After She Denounces Gang Rapes
By Kayhan Life Staff
On Sept. 23, unknown persons carried out a grenade attack on a house in the Janbazan neighborhood of Sardasht, in West Azerbaijan, belonging to the father of Naskeh Afkhami, a human...
Man Who Witnessed Torture of Iranian Wrestler Afkari Is Found Dead
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Greater Tehran Penitentiary Administration has reportedly asked the coroner’s office to determine the cause of death of Shahin Naseri, who allegedly witnessed champion wrestler Navid Afkari being tortured by security...
Iran Sentences Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi to 30 Months in Prison
By Kayhan Life Staff
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Tehran-based Defenders of Human Rights Center, has been handed a custodial 30-month prison sentence and 80 lashes, and...
Iranian Journalist Who Reported on Teenager’s Honor Killing Is Denied Medical Care
By Kayhan Life Staff
Sina Ghalandari, the reporter who broke the story about the “honor-killing” of Mobina Souri, a 14-year-old girl murdered by her cleric husband on Aug. 30, has been arrested and imprisoned twice...
Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi ‘Savagely Tortured’ In Detention, His Uncle Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
Jailed Iranian rap artist Toomaj Salehi – known for his protest songs including Soorakh Moosh (“Rat Hole”), Turkmenchay (“Normal”) and Anar (“Pomegranate”) -- had been reportedly banned from receiving visitors since...
Iranian Activist Giti Pourfazel Conditionally Released from Prison
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian authorities have granted Giti Pourfazel, a judicial lawyer and civil rights activist, conditional release, her attorney Mohammad Hossein Aghassi, said in a tweet.
“Good news for Ms. Giti Pourfazel’s friends....
