Underage Girls in Iran Had More Than 700 Babies Since March, Report Says
By Kayhan Life Staff
Girls aged 10 to 14 years old gave birth to 791 babies in Iran between March 19 and Oct. 8 of this year, a recent report by the National Organization for...
Internet Freedom in Iran Should Be Supported by the US Government, Lawmakers Say
By Natasha Phillips
A letter urging the US government to help open up internet access in Iran has been signed by 21 US lawmakers, following plans by Iran’s government to further restrict the flow of information...
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...
