Iran Seeks to Pass Tough New Hijab Laws, Uses AI To Track Offenders
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic of Iran is striving to pass the latest version of the “Hijab and Chastity Bill,” which has been drafted by the government and the Judiciary and has been...
Canada Sanctions Iranian Judges Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses
June 19 (Reuters) - The Canadian government on Monday said it sanctioned Iranian judges over alleged human rights abuses, adding that the step would prohibit dealings with them and freeze any assets they may have held in...
UN Rights Chief Singles Out Countries Including Iran for Failure to Cooperate
By Emma Farge
GENEVA, June 19 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief called on Monday for greater support for his office as he seeks to expand its work by establishing a first-time presence in the world's two most populous...
EU Can Proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Without Delay, Lawyers Say
By Natasha Phillips
Seven Iranian-born attorneys based in France have signed a letter on June 9 indicating that the European Union can designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization without delay, and without...
Iran Is Paying ‘Political and Diplomatic Price for Its Brutality,’ UK Official
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s government knows “the political and diplomatic price they are paying for their brutality ,” the UK Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has said.
Mitchell made the remarks during a June 7 debate at the...
Iran Among the Seven Countries Which Carry the Death Penalty for Gay Sex
By Lucy Middleton
Sources: Human Dignity Trust, ILGA World, Human Rights Watch, Equaldex, Reuters.
LONDON, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Cook Islands has officially decriminalised gay sex, with a law ending the Pacific nation's ban on...
Iranian Couple Arrested For Public Marriage Proposal
KL/REUTERS: An Iranian man proposed to a woman at the Hafezieh Mausoleum in the city of Shiraz, witnessed by celebrating friends. Soon after, the couple was arrested and investigated for the offence of re-creating a...
Iran Puts Two Female Reporters on Trial; Reporters Without Borders Urges Release
By Natasha Phillips
Two female journalists, Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, have gone on trial behind closed doors in Tehran’s revolutionary courts after they were accused of having ties with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Mohammadi and Hamedi have...
Iran’s Government Starts Trial of Female Journalist Who Covered Amini’s Death
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - A Revolutionary Court in Iran on Tuesday began the trial of a female journalist behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody...
Iranian Female Journalist Goes on Trial on Charges Linked to Amini Protests
DUBAI, May 29 (Reuters) - An Iranian journalist went of trial behind closed doors on Monday on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody last year triggered months...
