UN Expert on Iran to Hold Human Rights Briefing Amid Nationwide Protests
By Natasha Phillips
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, will hold a briefing at the UN’s headquarters in New York on Oct. 27 to address the state of human...
Argentina Asks Qatar to Detain Top Iranian Official Accused of Jewish Center Attack
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Argentina's justice department has asked Qatar to arrest a top Iranian official for his alleged participation in a 1994 attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85...
US Court Orders Iran to Pay Damages to Family of Late Journalist Siamak Pourzand
By Natasha Phillips
The Iranian government was ordered to pay $34.8 million in damages by a US court for imprisoning and torturing the journalist Siamak Pourzand, who subsequently took his own life while under house arrest.
The sentence was handed down by a court in the...
ANALYSIS – Iran’s Leaders Are Safe but Protests Raise the Stakes Over Imposing Veil
By Michael Georgy
DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The popular revolt in Iran triggered by the death of a woman held by police is unlikely to pose an immediate threat to clerical rulers whose elite security forces have crushed...
Internet May Be Disrupted in Iran for ‘Security Reasons’
DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Access to internet in Iran may be disrupted due to "security reasons", the minister of communications was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the semi-official ISNA news agency, amid widespread protests...
Iran Woman’s Death After Morals Police Arrest Sparks Protests
DUBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A young Iranian woman has died after falling into a coma following her detention by morality police enforcing Iran's strict hijab rules, sparking protests by Iranians on social media and on the...
Iran’s Government Closes Children’s Libraries to Cut Costs
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian government recently announced its plan to close some 1,000 libraries belonging to the Institute for the Development of Children and Young Adults, also known as the Center for the...
Iranian Authorities Arrest 300 Leaders of Anti-Hijab Networks, Official Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and security agencies responsible for enforcing the “Hijab and Chastity” scheme have arrested the heads of 300 anti-hijab networks, according to Hojatoleslam Seyyed Ali Khan-Mohammad, the...
Tehran’s Plan to Enforce Hijab Law With Facial Recognition Technology Proves Unworkable
By Natasha Phillips
A government proposal to use facial recognition technology to target women who infringe Iran’s compulsory hijab law is unworkable, according to the Tehran-based newspaper Hamshahri Online.
The proposal was discredited after it was...
Iranian Court Sentences Two LGBTQ Activists to Death, Rights Group Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
An Iranian revolutionary court in Urmia (also spelled Orumiyeh), in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, has handed death sentences to two LGBTQ activists: 31-year-old Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani (known as Sareh), and...
