Iran’s Judiciary Rules Out Swap for Condemned Iranian-Swedish Man
DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine researcher arrested by Iran, will be executed without a possibility of exchange with an Iranian national tried in Sweden, Iran's judiciary spokesperson said on Tuesday.
"Djalali...
Iran to Execute Swedish-Iranian National Djalali by May 21 – ISNA
DUBAI, May 4 (Reuters) -A Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by May 21, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency said on Wednesday, as the trial of a...
Executions in Iran Increased by 25% in 2021, Report Shows
By Natasha Phillips
There were 25 percent more executions in Iran in 2021 than there were in 2020, according to a report on the use of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic.
The report was released on April 28 by the Oslo-based non-governmental organisation Iran...
Human Rights Lawyer Soheila Hejab Sends Letter From Prison
By Kayhan Life Staff
In a letter written from her prison cell, Soheila Hejab, a human rights lawyer and pro-monarchy political activist, has described the physical and psychological torture she has endured in Kermanshah Prison’s...
Tehran University Football Teams Refuse to Play After Female Fans Banned From Match
By Kayhan Life Staff
Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) football teams refused to play their match after university security removed female spectators from the stadium, according to social media posts by several student activists...
More Than 3,000 People — Including Iranians — Lost in Sea Crossings to Europe...
By Emma Farge
GENEVA, April 29 (Reuters) - More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a U.N. refugee agency...
ANALYSIS: Iran’s Workers Struggle With Low or Unpaid Wages, Fixed-Term Contracts
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iranian workers face serious challenges, including low wages, fixed-term contracts, unsafe workplace environments, job insecurity, and a lack of benefits.
Millions of Iranian households live under the poverty line. The current average...
Iran’s Invitation to Host UN Rapporteur on Sanctions Is a ‘Trick,’ Shirin Ebadi Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iranian Nobel Laureate and Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said an upcoming visit to Iran in May by Dr. Alena Douhan -- the UN’s Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures -- had...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Violated Women in Evin Prison, Former Political Prisoner Says
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped women detainees in Evin prison during official visits to the jail in 2009, according to former political prisoner Marziyeh Amirizadeh.
Amirizadeh was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 for converting...
The Struggle to Save Iraq’s Last Persian Leopards
By Charlotte Bruneau and Mohammed Jalal
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, April 21 (Reuters) - Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo mountain in Iraq's Kurdistan region, brothers Bahez and Nabaz Farooq Ali hope to...
