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...
Freed Belgian Aid Worker Lost Weight, Not Sense of Humour, During Iran Ordeal
BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Freed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele lost 30 kg (66 lb) but not his sense of humour during over a year in an Iranian jail, his spokesman said on Saturday following his...
VIDEO: Former IRGC Hostage Visits Vahid Beheshti
By Kayhan Life
Peter Moore, a British computer expert kidnapped in Iraq by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2007 and held captive for two-and-a-half years visited Vahid Beheshti on Friday.
Vahid Beheshti has resumed his...
VIDEO: Vahid Beheshti Resumes Hunger Strike After Fatwa Allegedly Issued Against Him
By Kayhan Life
Vahid Beheshti who was hospitalised on day 72 of a hunger strike to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK has resumed his public protest...
Aid Worker Back in Belgium After Iranian Diplomat Prisoner Swap
By Marine Strauss and Charlotte Van Campenhout
BRUSSELS/DUBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - A Belgian aid worker arrived back in Belgium on Friday night from Iran, where he had been accused of spying and jailed until being...
Thousands of Child Marriages are Celebrated In Iran Each Year
By Kayhan Life Staff
A recent report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) said that 27,448 girls aged under 15 were married between December 2021 and November 2022.
The report added the number of girls...
Iran Says It Executes Leader of Women Trafficking Network
May 20 (Reuters) - Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighbouring countries for prostitution.
It said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as "Alex”, was the...
