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...
Italy Ends Search for Dead, Among Them Iranians, After Migrant Shipwreck
ROME, May 30 (Reuters) - Italian authorities on Tuesday said they were ending the search for bodies after a deadly shipwreck on Feb. 26 off the southern town of Cutro that claimed at least 94 lives.
The wooden migrant...
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...
VIDEO: Family of Man Executed in Iran Call on Australian Government to Do More
Reuters/abc.net/Kayhan Life
The Australian family of a man executed in Iran is calling on the federal government to do more to address human rights abuses in the Middle Eastern country. 30-year-old Majid Kazemi was subject to severe...
VIDEO: Former British Hostage in Iraq: ‘I Know the Risk of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Peter Moore, a British IT expert, explains his support for Vahid Beheshti’s public protest to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK. Mr. Moore...
VIDEO:Mattie Heaven Insists Anti-IRGC Campaign in UK Will Continue Despite Security Fears
By Kayhan Life Staff
Mattie Heaven, the wife of anti-IRGC campaigner Vahid Beheshti, explains the campaign to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK. Ms Heaven is a...
Families Of Prisoners in Iran Demand a Stop to Executions
A recent statement issued by more than 80 family members of prisoners in Iran, outlines crimes committed by the Islamic republic authorities, and demands an end to executions.
The text of the statement signed by...
